From the BEST WEE COUNTRY IN THE WORLD: Northern Ireland. Long in the tooth. Smarter than you. Better looking too. I'm always right. Not very tolerant.
Northern Ireland, UK.
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Booker Dewitt 💔 retweeted
Turns out the Labour government is baffled by the fact that Poundland, a company that sells high volume goods at rock bottom prices with very thin margins, might go bankrupt after they’ve continually increased their labour costs
That’s astoundingly cretinous
Booker Dewitt 💔 retweeted
🚨NEW: A UK bank chief executive, reacting to John Healey's decision to raise the bank's profit surcharge said:
"Taxing the engines of growth to reduce VAT on gherkins is end-of-Rome level of stupidity"
[@FT]
Booker Dewitt 💔 retweeted
Someone more intelligent than me please explain how the UK can be 3 trillion in debt, completely on our arse but still find 10 billion to fund a war that has fuck all to do with us ?
🚨 NEW: John Healey has announced Ukraine will receive £10bn in additional economic and military support
"We called him this morning... he told us we made his day"
#Budget
Booker Dewitt 💔 retweeted
I have just witnessed a boat being launched from Belgium
Belgian authorities were there and did nothing. The boat was there for 15 to 20 minutes and was easy to to attack and destroy for authorities. They did nothing
Footage coming later
Booker Dewitt 💔 retweeted
The Cost of Britain 🇬🇧
Here is the single MADDEST number in today’s Budget - and the Chancellor didn’t mention it once in his speech 👀
From April, the National Living Wage rises to £13.21 an hour.
For a full-time 40-hour week, that is £27,477 a year.
That’s GREAT right?? 🤔
At the same time, today’s Budget leaves the 40% Higher Rate tax threshold FROZEN at £50,270 right through until April 2031.
Do the maths on that:
In Britain today, earning just 1.8x the minimum wage now classes you as a Higher Rate taxpayer.
When the 40% tax band was created, it was meant for the top 3.5% of earners - bank directors and senior executives.
Today, a skilled tradesperson, experienced nurse, police sergeant or salaried worker earning 1.8x the legal minimum wage hands over:
❌ 42p of every extra pound to HMRC (40% Income Tax + 2% NI)
❌ 51p of every extra pound if they have a student loan
That single threshold freeze is quietly pulling an extra £34 billion a year out of working people’s pay packets - without the government ever having to announce a headline tax rise.
Pushing minimum wage up from the bottom
Whilst freezing the 40% tax trap at the top
How can earning 1.8x minimum wage possibly be classed as a “higher earner” in 2026?
Booker Dewitt 💔 retweeted
This is crazy. If you have been on the mimimum wage since April 2020 you've had a 50% payrise in just 6 years. Meanwhile a skilled worker would be no where near these levels of pay increases.
There is no point in showing any ambition, get training, studying , promotions.
Booker Dewitt 💔 retweeted
I earn £100 grand a year.
I have a detached house. 2 cars and my wife is a full time home maker.
I can just about afford this. I probably couldn’t afford the house I own if I was buying for the first time today.
My salary puts me in the top 5% of earners in the UK.
Top 5% to have a similar standard of living to Homer Simpson.
That is a disgrace.
We have a flatter salary distribution than Soviet Russia and the highest taxes and borrowing costs we’ve seen in generations.
Success is almost impossible because our tax system means hard work makes you a stressed out tax cow, not wealthy and certainly not free.
We need something radical.
Less state.
More family.
Less handouts.
More reward for risk.
Instead. Tomorrow, Labour will offer another batch of policies which will send one message to aspirational Brits: why bother.
I read a piece in the FT this week about the price of being middle class in Britain now and it said a couple earning £436,000 combined take home £216,000. That’s a crazy amount of tax, and it doesn't include VAT on purchases, council tax, stamp duty or other taxes (I think does include pension contributions). I can’t stop thinking about it.
Booker Dewitt 💔 retweeted
❗️MISSING CHILD❗️
Police are concerned in relation to missing person Mia Reeves, aged 15. Mia is missing from Magerafelt area and was last seen in New Mossley area of Newtownabbey at approximately 1900 hours on Monday 26th of October.
Mia has dark brown hair, blue eyes and was last seen wearing a Halloween costume described as a Blue corset, light pink biker shorts , sheer skirt , white tights , white shoes , a black puffer coat and carrying a black bag.
Mia may be making her way from #Newtownabbey to the South #Belfast area.
If you have any information that can assist Police please contact 101 and quote serial 1764-27/10/26 #NorthernIreland
Booker Dewitt 💔 retweeted
“One toilet in the bar and yet everyone was in at the time. It’s just ridiculous. It was a wee bit scary actually. Like a bloody cult.”
The words of one of Robert McCartney’s sisters about the wall of silence surrounding her brother’s murder.
A cover-up operation by the IRA after the brutal murder of Robert McCartney will be laid bare in a new documentary as his sisters continue their fight for justice 21 years on.
belfasttelegraph.co.uk/sunda…
belfasttelegraph.co.uk/sunda…
Booker Dewitt 💔 retweeted
Our friends employ around 100 people in Northern Ireland. They’ve stopped employing teenagers as the cost of employing them has increased so much. Better to employ someone with experience than take an expensive chance on someone young.
Booker Dewitt 💔 retweeted
She needs to do what I do - whatever the government says do the opposite. Working out well for me so far.
Booker Dewitt 💔 retweeted
Do you mean the PUP? A party so marginal they have zero seats in the NI Assembly and just one council seat in all of NI.
Loyalist paramilitaries are not routinely glorified/memorialised by the unionist community.
The vast majority of unionists despise loyalist paramilitaries.
I'm not sure what your point is, no doubt you'll clarify it.
