sean @leafy6

🎢 A journey of highs and lows, from August to May. Now it's time for this group to write our next chapter. To write their names in the history books of Bolton Wanderers 🫡 #bwfc

We’ve got some brilliant players in midfield and attack. Just being let down by the clowns at the back. Again. #bwfc

@OfficialBWFC @officialcarmats Get him gone

I used to know the name of every player, in every team. Now, on the rare occasion I watch CL football, I know hardly anyone. I never thought I'd get this old/uninterested in football.

@wwfcofficial Glad the time wasting paid off for you.

30 seconds of pure brilliance. This is without doubt the best summary of the furore over Jim Radcliffe’s”colonisation” comments I’ve seen. Watch Simon Jordan’s word perfect summary. @Sjopinion10 @Iromg @JuliaHB1

Taylor shouldn’t play for this club again #bwfc

2nd best at home to Port Vale. It doesn’t look like they are playing for him. #bwfc

@luke_bwfc Now. We are going backwards. Worst performance of the season.

At what point do questions start being asked of the manager?

Will Forrester was our best defender. I’m sick of seeing us being beat by the long ball, Toal & Johnson never seem to learn. This side will do nothing unless there are big changes, and quickly. I also don’t understand how we expect to score when we don’t cross the ball. #bwfc

I read that schoolboys will be sent on courses to tackle 'misogyny'. Schoolboys aren't the threat. Importing countless young men from third world cultures that treat women like dirt is the threat. Forcing this ridiculous guilt on decent young lads is truly despicable.

The problem Britain has right now is there’s no reward for working hard. You actually get stung for it. There’s no drive for aspiration, ideas or entrepreneurship. I remember as a kid, being out of work and claiming benefits was an embarrassing thing. Now there’s no shame.

Everything costs more, so much more and Britain is getting poorer, so much much poorer. People can feel it - it’s a pretty dreadful combination. Food’s more expensive, energy bills soaring, a pint costs six quid outside Central London. Childcare, insurance, mortgage payments. It’s everything and it is bloody awful. Inflation MUST come down. It doesn’t feel like anyone’s got any answers. Well, there is one. The only one. Brutally slash tax, radically tear away vast swathes of the state and eventually rebuild national resilience/confidence. There is no easy solution. We are in deep, dark shit. There is no other way to describe it. It will be painful. Very painful. Politicians need to be honest about that. Britain has the highest tax burden since the Second World War. Millions are working harder than ever, yet becoming poorer every single month. Inflation runs rampant. The cruellest tax of them all. Are we surprised it’s exploded? The Government printed hundreds of billions during lockdown, shut down the economy, wrecked supply chains, raised taxes on work and investment, and then acted totally baffled when prices soared. What happens if you inject such huge amount of money into a system? It all becomes worth less. This is obvious. It’s called ‘quantitative easing’, a fancy way of saying printing money and we need to ban it. Inflation is a cancer. A tax that wipes out wages, savings, pensions. It makes life more expensive. Here is the honest truth. You cannot fight inflation by taxing people more and growing the state. You can only fight inflation by cutting the size of the state itself. If we want to bring down the cost of living, we need to start telling the truth. The state is too big, too bloated, too expensive and too incompetent. The debt is too vast. The rich don’t suffer. It’s the poor who feel it. THAT is why we must change. Urgently. In 25/26 it’s expected debt interest spending to total £111.2 billion. That’s 8.3% of total public spending and is equivalent to over 3.7% of national income. Think about that. If your family’s debt interest payments equalled that, how would you cope? Bankruptcy, is the answer. Britain is going bankrupt. We spend more on debt interest than defence. It is INSANE. We are spending too much, far too much. Try running a business like that. Good luck. How do we fix it? A pound taken by government is a pound removed from the productive economy, and fed to the unproductive state. Cut taxes on work. Income Tax down. Raise the thresholds. Farage now backtracking on this (huge error). National Insurance down. Let people keep more of what they earn. REWARD HARD WORK. Cut taxes on business. Cut Corporation Tax - lowest in Europe. Reduce Business Rates. Slash Employers’ NI so firms can hire again. Ease dividend thresholds. Tear away the frictional costs of doing business. Lubricate the system. Make Britain the easiest place in Europe to do business. Tax breaks for long term investment. When businesses produce more, supply goes up - and prices come DOWN. This is basic economics. Slash the size of the state. Brutally. And I mean brutally. Billions and billions in cuts. Right across the board - welfare in particular. If you can work, you MUST work. Support those in genuine need, but that is a vanishingly small number compared to current spend. Ban foreigners from claiming any benefits. Asylum costs, foreign aid, dependent migrants. It all has to go. Civil service pensions. Unsustainable. Need to be dealt with. It’s a time bomb. We need Government to do a small list of things, but do it well. Protect our borders, people, interests. Rebuild national resilience. Build energy independence so families aren’t battered. We import SO much energy. Drill baby, drill. Frack. Use what we have. Drive the cost of energy down, and everything else follows. This is not complicated. Food security so supply chains can’t be held hostage. GROW MORE. Cost comes down, again this is not complicated. A skilled British workforce so productivity rises and dependence on vast low-wage migration ends - target education. Reward businesses who train and develop apprentices. Deport the millions of migrants who take more than they give. It is not our responsibility to financially support much of the third world. We have our own people and our own problems, thanks. Ban money-printing, without Parliament’s express consent. Crucially, tackle crime. Give people confidence to invest and reduce insurance costs. SO important. Britain must become a country that lives within it means. Not spending more than we earn. In fact, raising enough to begin paying off that debt, and reducing those interest payments. The cost of living crisis will only be solved by stripping back the state that is crushing our country. There is no other way. The left will say ‘tax the rich’? The rich will leave. They are leaving. It’s already happening. They go, and take their tax revenue with them. This is OBVIOUS. You don't make the poor richer by making the rich poorer. Collectivism ALWAYS fails. We need cuts, cuts and then more cuts. Trust the people who actually work, build, produce and create. Give them the space they need to thrive, and we’ll all benefit. Generate wealth. Attract success. Cut inflation. Breed confidence. It’s quite straightforward. This is how we lower the cost of living. Put more money in people’s pockets. Rebuild the British economy. Make you and your family richer. It can be done, it will just take balls.

Breakfast clubs should be free to children whose parents work and who need to drop their children off a little early in order to be able to work. It should not be free for those who don’t work.

Unemployment rising. What on earth could have caused that? Who could have possibly predicted it?! Oh. All of us. This is not a mystery. It’s the inevitable result of a government that keeps taxing work and punishing the people who actually create jobs and generate wealth. OBVIOUSLY. Treating business as a lemon to squeeze, not a tree to grow. Employers’ National Insurance - an actual tax on employing people - has risen again and again. You tax employment, unemployment goes up. This is so painfully obvious. How can these useless gnomes not see it?! Then there’s corporation tax - hiked as well. Business rates that crush high streets. VAT thresholds that trap small firms and discourage growth. Brutal dividend thresholds that mean earning more is often simply not worth it. Every single one of these is a tax on productivity, a tax on success. And when you tax something, you get less of it. Ask any small business owner. They’ll all say the same. The system DOES NOT work. I’ve built businesses, run businesses. One of the few MPs to do so… If more of us were in Westminster, we may actually get somewhere. We now have a country where it’s easier and cheaper not to work than to employ or be employed. Easier to sit on your arse doing sod all than actually contributing. If you’re fit to work, you must work. It’s that simple. You can’t build a vibrant economy on higher taxes, higher regulation, and higher energy costs. You just can’t. Certainly not with Reeves in charge. She may be a pleasant woman, I don’t know, but she is utterly incompetent. Weak, inept, failing. She must go. The Treasury’s addiction to taxation is killing the very people it relies on to fund the state. What can we do to fix it? - Cut Corporation Tax to the lowest in Europe - send a clear signal that Britain is open for business. - Undercut our neighbours. Go for their business. Compete against the Europeans. Win. - Abolish Business Rates entirely for small companies. - Double the VAT threshold, so small firms aren’t punished for growing. - Ditch IR35. Immediately. - Slash NI. Stop taxing jobs. - Overhaul dividend tax rates. REWARD success! - Ditch all inheritance tax on businesses/farms, so parents can pass successful firms down to their children. - Burn red tape - a full review of every employment, HR and health-and-safety regulation that throttles small employers. Look at every single one. If there’s no good reason for it, scrap it. - Get HMRC to PICK UP THE PHONE. - Crucially - end the HRification of Britain. Reward work and remember that real growth comes when government gets out of the way. This is all possible. Very possible. It can be done and it must be done. It just takes balls.

Tax. We’ve all become so used to it, we forget how much we’re actually paying. It is relentless, even beyond death. And for what? If we had a semblance of functioning public services, I could maybe stomach it. But we don’t, so what are we actually paying all of this money for? We are subject to Scandinavian levels of tax for third-world levels of competence - what a toilet deal. Earn a salary. Income tax, a fifth gone before we’ve even started. National insurance, more on top of that. What for? A ‘world-class’ health service? The NHS? Ha. Good luck. Even getting to work costs - taxes on buying a car, running a car, insuring a car. Vast amount of road tax. Is that being well spent? Unless you want potholes you can paddle in, the answer is no. A road network built for half the amount of cars. How’s that going? It takes twice as long to get anywhere. Fuel duty and tax on insurance - whack that on top too. Congestion charges, tolls, fines and more. It goes on and on and on. Forget getting the train, that’ll cost twice as much and never runs on time - a season ticket into London costs thousands. Unaffordable. Yet the trains so often run empty? Maybe that system isn’t working… VAT on anything that moves - getting taxed to buy products/services, from already taxed money. Tax, tax, tax, tax, tax, tax. Then more tax. Did you go to university? Your ‘loan’ isn’t loan, it’s a tax. Interest is so sharp, you’re just paying that off each month. Hundreds gone, to pay for a sociology degree a decade ago. Ouch. Why are we saddling our youngsters with so much debt, with so much interest on top of that? Madness. Manage to put a few quid away to save? That gets taxed too - ISAs will be under attack in the budget. Profit made on successful investments, what happens? You guessed it. Tax. Somehow you’ve scrabbled a deposit together for a property. Well done. Paying half a million quid for a semi-detached? Not cheap. Stamp duty means you get slapped for thousands. Obviously first time buyer exemptions mean less and less as house prices soar. You’re in the house. Great news. Or so you thought. Council tax. Going up seemingly by 5% every year. Thousands of pounds a year. For what? To collect the bins? Really? Don’t forget the extra costs to have your garden waste removed. Brilliant. More insurance taxes, and of course VAT on any improvements you want to make. Bills soaring, with tax slapped onto every corner of it - green levies and the rest. How depressing. Time for a pint. Alcohol duty. Because of course. Why wouldn’t they throw extra tax on it? I’m not a smoker, but the same applies. Even holidays. Air passenger duty to put a few extra quid onto the price of a trip away. Just for good measure. You’re limping on through. Maybe you decide that starting your own business is the way to go? You get it up and running, starting to make a reasonable profit. Take a small salary - to pay for such luxuries as food and heating. As we know, that gets taxed. Alongside the costs. National Insurance. Business rates. Fees and licences. It is endless. What’s left after all that? A profit? Surely good news? Bang. Corporation tax. A big slice gone. After that, we can enjoy a handsome profit. Right? Nope. Dividend tax. With its brutal thresholds. What slivers you do take get taxed all over again when you want to actually buy something. Obviously. And the final kick in teeth. Inheritance tax. After everything, somehow, you’ve managed to put a reasonable amount of money away. After all that tax, you’ve succeeded in building a financial legacy to pass to your children - your business, and your own savings. Money you were taxed on the day you earned it, taxed when you saved it, taxed when you invested it, taxed to build your business. It gets taxed one final time. On both your personal savings, and also the value of your company. Even after death, it continues. What are we paying all this money for? Are our schools world-class? Borders secure? Police visible? NHS efficient? Economy thriving? Roads operational? No. No. No. No. No. No. NOTHING WORKS. Britain has the highest tax burden in most of our lifetimes, yet the worst services many of us have ever seen. If everything worked perfectly, there could maybe be an argument for such suffocating levels of tax. But it doesn’t, and hasn’t for decades, so there isn’t. When the taxpayers fail to fund this state monster of inefficiency and unaccountability, what do they do? QE. Print money. Creating inflation, devaluing our earnings and our savings. Yet one more tax. The people creating all of this, implementing all of this? £100k plus on the public sector, living in London. Comfortable salary, great pension, no job risk. Clueless about the real world. Maybe, just maybe, the current approach isn’t working. We need to urgently cut tax. Shrink government. Reward hard work. You just can’t tax a nation into prosperity. It never has worked, and it never will work. LEAVE OUR MONEY ALONE.

I sit in Parliament listening to these ministers, and it’s all just so depressing - the vast majority of them have never run a business, and it SHOWS. You would not believe how bad it is. They think ‘work’ means turning up to an office between 9 and 5, answering a few emails, and going home at the end of the day. Nice lunch break, few coffees away from the desk, probably a smoking break or several. It doesn’t - not for the millions of men and women who actually create the wealth that funds the state. Running a small business isn’t a job. It’s a way of life. It is life. It’s 24/7/365. It’s relentless. You are the accountant, HR department, compliance officer, cleaner, marketer, and customer service team - all in one. There’s no sick pay, no safety net, and no taxpayer-funded pension waiting for you. Holiday? Good luck. If you do manage to get away, it’s checking the phone all day, every day. Wife/husband obviously getting pissed off. We’ve all been there... It’s all on you. Every invoice chased, every tax deadline met, every bit of red tape navigated is on you. And if you make one mistake, one error, one small slip-up, the state comes after you - in a relentlessly efficient manner that is never afforded to us when we ask questions of it. Most MPs have no idea what that feels like. They just don’t. We’re going to see more of this in the budget I’m sure. More hurt. More pain. More tax. They don’t get it. They don’t understand that when a small business owner gets hit with another tax, it’s not absorbed by a ‘budget’ - it’s taken straight out of their family’s pocket. There is no ‘deficit’ in the business world - that’s called going bust. And they certainly don’t understand what real risk looks like. Politicians can vote through a policy on Monday and forget it by Tuesday - a small business owner lives with the consequences of that policy for years, decades. The MP monthly salary is safe. It always has been. In the public sector before, and in the public sector after - if not that, some charity/NGO funded entirely by the public sector. GET A REAL JOB. If MPs actually spent a week running a small firm - paying suppliers, tackling VAT, navigating health and safety law, sorting out HR issues, chasing clients for payment, trying to expand while staying compliant with everything from GDPR to local planning regulations - they’d legislate very differently. I can promise you that. They’d realise that most of Britain’s problems could be solved by the state doing less, not more. Cutting tax. Simplifying regulation. Slashing back the HRification of the country. Trusting people who actually produce things to get on with it. Instead, we have a political class that talks endlessly about ‘growth’ while brutally punishing the only people capable of delivering it - especially going after the family businesses/farms, which is a particularly spiteful policy decision. Small business owners are people who work harder than almost anyone in Parliament could imagine - and who are treated worse for it. Britain’s small businesses don’t succeed because of politicians, they survive in spite of them.

What it’s all about ❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️ #bwfc