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I’m reading so many disgusting comments today from people who hate Tommy Robinson, hoping he goes to prison, wishing ill on a man whose only crime was protecting his family. Some of you people are really sick.
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These are the stats John Healey doesn’t want you to read.
Unemployment will rise to 5% in 2027.
The tax burden is going up AGAIN to the highest since WW2.
By 2031 we’ll be spending £160bn/year on debt interest alone – up £36bn/year.
Borrowing forecasts for the next 5 years have risen £65bn since March.
Households will be worse off in every single year of the five-year forecast than they were in March.
It’ll take until 2029 to get back to 2019 levels of prosperity.
Growth will be abysmal. GDP per capita grows less than 1% in 2027. It’ll peak at less than 2% per year, despite the AI revolution.
The national debt will stay above 95% of GDP.
We are on a fiscal knife-edge. Britain is Broke. Britain needs Reform.
Unemployment will rise to 5% in 2027.
The tax burden is going up AGAIN to the highest since WW2.
By 2031 we’ll be spending £160bn/year on debt interest alone – up £36bn/year.
Borrowing forecasts for the next 5 years have risen £65bn since March.
Households will be worse off in every single year of the five-year forecast than they were in March.
It’ll take until 2029 to get back to 2019 levels of prosperity.
Growth will be abysmal. GDP per capita grows less than 1% in 2027. It’ll peak at less than 2% per year, despite the AI revolution.
The national debt will stay above 95% of GDP.
We are on a fiscal knife-edge. Britain is Broke. Britain needs Reform.
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Since when was Martin Lewis elected and responsible for policy announcements?
The Privileged rich announcing to the poor and he thinks it's a good thing.
This is so wrong on every level.
Nothing personal to Martin, but it ain't his job.
The Privileged rich announcing to the poor and he thinks it's a good thing.
This is so wrong on every level.
Nothing personal to Martin, but it ain't his job.
NEWS. Gas standing charges to be scrapped! Instant reaction, more analysis later
(Sorry about poor sound)
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Waspi women NOT compensated
All Sub-postmasters still NOT compensated
Nuclear tests cancer sufferers NOT compensated
People given contaminated blood NOT compensated
Windrush scandal people NOT compensated
But we've found another £10 billion for Ukraine!
All Sub-postmasters still NOT compensated
Nuclear tests cancer sufferers NOT compensated
People given contaminated blood NOT compensated
Windrush scandal people NOT compensated
But we've found another £10 billion for Ukraine!
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@MartinSLewis “We’re gonna drop standing charges in 1 calendar year, in which that time your estimated price hike is 25%. Here’s hoping you don’t notice that”
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So much for "only pay for what you use then".
I have a lot of respect for @MartinSLewis, Indeed I think his financial shows should be compulsory viewing as the advice is excellent.
However, on this I believe he has campaigned for a populist totem rather than an economically sensible one.
Larger users, including those who are disabled, elderly, sick and work from home will now be subsidising others who are lower users.
The entire reason a fixed standing charge is applied is to cover fixed network charges. Including meter maintenance, which last time I looked, we all had just one.
Its also transparent.
Now it's hidden away with some of the most vulnerable and higher users picking up the unknown bill.
For all Martin has done to help people with finances I cant believe he campaigned for this, it is so counter intuitive.
I have a lot of respect for @MartinSLewis, Indeed I think his financial shows should be compulsory viewing as the advice is excellent.
However, on this I believe he has campaigned for a populist totem rather than an economically sensible one.
Larger users, including those who are disabled, elderly, sick and work from home will now be subsidising others who are lower users.
The entire reason a fixed standing charge is applied is to cover fixed network charges. Including meter maintenance, which last time I looked, we all had just one.
Its also transparent.
Now it's hidden away with some of the most vulnerable and higher users picking up the unknown bill.
For all Martin has done to help people with finances I cant believe he campaigned for this, it is so counter intuitive.
CONFIRMED. Gas Standing Charges to be scrapped. I've just come out of a meeting with the Chancellor. The gas standing charge will be scrapped in 2027 (my guess, either for 1 Oct price cap or the 1 Jan 28 price cap). Having campaigned against the moral hazard of standing charges for years, I'm pleased.
It's currently £108 a year. That cost will be shifted onto unit rates. We don't know how much yet, but I suspect just under 1p per kwH.
The Chancellor also said he will be talking to Ofgem about how they get rid of the charge on electricity as well, but that is 'trickier' apparently and will take longer.
This is primarily about the price cap standing charges. There will still be an open market, so other firms can offer other forms of prices with or without the standing charge. My suspicion is that once it goes on the price cap, it will tend to be reduced on other tariffs as well.
As for those on fixes: if you get a fix now, the rate of your fix is fixed, so this should not affect it. You will pay what you pay and if it has standing charges they will continue (some asking if they should delay fixing because of this, no if a fix is right for you and will save you money, don't let this change that - this is about the structure of bills, as opposed to the actual costs on bills).
About 60% of people will pay less due to this, 40% more. My guesstimate is the dividing line will be somewhere around 12,500 kilowatt hours of gas (can't know until there is actual pricing). According to a study by Nesta, this switch would leave the majority of people in all income groups under £100,000 better off.
Of course, when this does come in, if we're still in the nightmare that we are right now, there will need to be support put in for vulnerable higher users, who will have to pay more. Though hopefully by then the mid-east will have calmed and energy prices lower.
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That's all long term. The biggest issue in energy right now is that we're expecting a 27% rise in the price cap in January. I asked the Chancellor whether he will be intervening on that. He told me I'd have to wait for the budget, but reading between the lines, yes, there will be an announcement today.
Whether it's an increase in the Warm Home Discount, or whether it's council tax banned, or whether it's done via a payout for people in say council tax bands A-D as a proxy for household income as Rishi Sunak did who knows.
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🚨Unfucking believable! A jury from an area of about 90% liberals who hate Tommy Robinson just found him guilty of harassment for practicing journalism against two scumbag reporters who endangered the lives of his family.
It wasn’t a jury of peers. It was a jury of enemies.
It wasn’t a jury of peers. It was a jury of enemies.
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If the state pension is a benefit like labour say it is why aren’t pensioners among the ones getting reduced energy bills just like the workshy and scroungers @UKLabour
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Am I being cynical or won't the energy companies just move the standing charge money onto their tariffs so we don't actually save anything?
#budget2026
#budget2026
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RT @x_browsing40115: Just watched Nigel and Robert's budget response. Right across the detail and delivered with some well placed humour.…
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So... as expected, despite resigning as Defence Secretary because Starmer wouldn't commit to spending 3% of GDP on defence, John Healey is going to wait until next year to start funding our defences properly. He's a busted flush. #CareerBeforeCountry
Healey confirms he'll wait until next year's spending review - currently pencilled in for autumn - to set out details of how UK meets Nato target of 3.5% GDP on defence by 2035.
Crucially, this will include confirming an interim date of 3% by 2030. Chancellor says he'll now focus on "getting there in a fiscally sustainable way".
He accuses the Tories of "hollowing out" the armed forces - saying that his son, an army reservist, "came back four years ago from early training to say they had no kit and they had no bullets to fire".
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So this standing charge on gas bills being abolished isn't coming in until 2027 or 'soon thereafter'.
Whatever that means.
Probably sometime or never.
Who knows. 🤷
Whatever that means.
Probably sometime or never.
Who knows. 🤷
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@Robandchips @Bekola1975 @mbga_uk But I pay this every month. It’s taken off my work pension. I don’t understand why it’s a lump sum so don’t believe it really.
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Kensington Kemi hasn’t changed the Tories one iota. They’ve got the same MPs and candidates. Giving away British taxpayer’s cash, open borders, the Boris wave - they’re more left-wing than Ed Davey. The uniparty strikes again…
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After 100 days of Andy Burnham what do you think of him as a Prime Minister
I've tagged him as i know he looks at X so make sure you comment below and share and tell him what you think of him.
@andyburnham
I've tagged him as i know he looks at X so make sure you comment below and share and tell him what you think of him.
@andyburnham
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She’s Nigerian in every possible sense. Her parents are Nigerian, she grew up in Nigeria, and the rule that gave her British citizenship was abolished shortly after her birth.
It’s like your parents taking an ill-timed holiday to Spain so you happen to be born there. That doesn’t make you Spanish.
Whether it matters is a separate question. But to say she was born in LONDON is in this case a meaningless technicality.
Unless, of course, you believe a baby can be waved around and immediately absorb Englishness from the air.
It’s like your parents taking an ill-timed holiday to Spain so you happen to be born there. That doesn’t make you Spanish.
Whether it matters is a separate question. But to say she was born in LONDON is in this case a meaningless technicality.
Unless, of course, you believe a baby can be waved around and immediately absorb Englishness from the air.
For the racist little pricks who apparently need this explained: Kemi Badenoch was born in LONDON. She grew up abroad and returned to Britain at 16. She is now 46, married and a mother of three
Disagree with her policies. Challenge her arguments. That’s politics. Treating her skin colour or Nigerian heritage as grounds to question whether she belongs here is racism. Have the backbone to own what you’re doing instead of dressing it up as patriotism.
Britishness is not a whites-only club, and you miserable bigots are not its membership committee.
And any politician who panders to that poison deserves contempt, whatever party badge they wear.
She belongs here. Your racism belongs in the fucking gutter.
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Basically the Gas standing charge is being added on to the unit cost of gas, my standing charge is 16p a day, so as I use gas for hot water and heating it's likely I will see no savings if I use above 16 units at a 1p per unit added.
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"Who is bankrolling Nigel Farage's party?" asks Bridget Phillipson. "Labour will protect our democracy from foreign influence."
Right. Same question back.
Who is bankrolling Labour, and the machine around it?
Gary Lubner. South African. Former Autoglass chief. Millions.
Lord lends the flat.
George Soros. Money into Best for Britain and Fair Vote, routed through a London outpost, which is how a foreign fortune gets round a ban on foreign donations.
Pierre Omidyar. French-Iranian, eBay founder, funding the campaign groups.
Bill Gates. In for the photo call.
Swedish philanthropists. Bloomberg.
And Verbatim, which made the Channel 4 sting she is riding, is itself funded from abroad. So the watchdog on foreign money is on foreign money.
And those are off the top of my head. No research. Give me an afternoon and the list fills a page.
So the party promising to protect democracy from foreign influence is up to its neck in it, legally, through the same door, and has proposed no cap that would inconvenience a single person in the room. They held a drinks party for them in Downing Street.
The question is not who is bankrolling Farage. It is why Labour thinks the answer changes depending on whose name is on the cheque.
"Protect our democracy from foreign influence." They would not know where to start.
Right. Same question back.
Who is bankrolling Labour, and the machine around it?
Gary Lubner. South African. Former Autoglass chief. Millions.
Lord lends the flat.
George Soros. Money into Best for Britain and Fair Vote, routed through a London outpost, which is how a foreign fortune gets round a ban on foreign donations.
Pierre Omidyar. French-Iranian, eBay founder, funding the campaign groups.
Bill Gates. In for the photo call.
Swedish philanthropists. Bloomberg.
And Verbatim, which made the Channel 4 sting she is riding, is itself funded from abroad. So the watchdog on foreign money is on foreign money.
And those are off the top of my head. No research. Give me an afternoon and the list fills a page.
So the party promising to protect democracy from foreign influence is up to its neck in it, legally, through the same door, and has proposed no cap that would inconvenience a single person in the room. They held a drinks party for them in Downing Street.
The question is not who is bankrolling Farage. It is why Labour thinks the answer changes depending on whose name is on the cheque.
"Protect our democracy from foreign influence." They would not know where to start.
Who is bankrolling Nigel Farage's party?
What interests are they seeking to advance?
Are they acting in Britain's best interests?
Reform UK are engulfed in sleaze and scandal. Labour will protect our democracy from foreign influence.
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🚨🇬🇧 Israel has detained and refused entry to:
🏴 **Lara Bird** — SNP MP
🟢 **Kate Nevins** — Scottish Greens MSP
🔴 **Clive Lewis** — Labour MP
🔴 **Sam Tarry** — Former Labour MP
All attempting to enter the West Bank.
🇮🇱 Dear Israel,
**YOU CAN KEEP THEM.** 😂
No rush sending them back. We've got enough politicians as it is! 🇬🇧
🏴 **Lara Bird** — SNP MP
🟢 **Kate Nevins** — Scottish Greens MSP
🔴 **Clive Lewis** — Labour MP
🔴 **Sam Tarry** — Former Labour MP
All attempting to enter the West Bank.
🇮🇱 Dear Israel,
**YOU CAN KEEP THEM.** 😂
No rush sending them back. We've got enough politicians as it is! 🇬🇧
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😂 Nick Ferrari bursts out laughing as Business Secretary Jonathan Reynolds is forced to sell the latest government gimmick live on @LBC
Reynolds looked thoroughly embarrassed as he tried to sell the plan to scrap import tariffs on a list of “everyday essentials”.
When products were included and what the actual savings would be, Reynolds immediately started dampening expectations, sheepishly admitting these were “not huge reductions” before reeling off the list: baked beans, chocolate, gherkins…
That’s as far as he got. Ferrari could not contain himself and burst out laughing. 😭
Nick then pointed out that the Conservatives have called the projected saving of £21 per year “derisory”.
You could see Reynolds was mortified reading it out. Imagine the brief he opened this morning and realised he had to go on air and sell this to the public. 😬
What a farce. Even on the government’s own figures, this works out at roughly 40p a week for the average household. Forty pence a week. You lucky people.
Another pointless gimmick that will have zero material impact on people’s lives.
Reynolds looked thoroughly embarrassed as he tried to sell the plan to scrap import tariffs on a list of “everyday essentials”.
When products were included and what the actual savings would be, Reynolds immediately started dampening expectations, sheepishly admitting these were “not huge reductions” before reeling off the list: baked beans, chocolate, gherkins…
That’s as far as he got. Ferrari could not contain himself and burst out laughing. 😭
Nick then pointed out that the Conservatives have called the projected saving of £21 per year “derisory”.
You could see Reynolds was mortified reading it out. Imagine the brief he opened this morning and realised he had to go on air and sell this to the public. 😬
What a farce. Even on the government’s own figures, this works out at roughly 40p a week for the average household. Forty pence a week. You lucky people.
Another pointless gimmick that will have zero material impact on people’s lives.
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