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Stumac26 retweeted
If HMRC are allowed to take money from individuals’ bank accounts, as proposed in the budget today, then we are heading to a dark place.
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🚨 NEW: John Healey is set to announce the following in his Budget later
- The gas standing charge will be scrapped to save £27 a year on a typical bill
- Green levies on energy bills will be scraped "for good"
- NHS prescription charges will be frozen at £9.90 for another year
- Poorer households on benefits will receive extra help with energy bills before January's sharp rises
- The VAT cut on electricity bills, which was due to expire in April, will be extended (though it's not clear if this will be announced in the Budget or separately)
- The Government will remove the link between gas and electricity prices, which currently inflates household bills, "in the long term"
- Banks will face higher taxes, with the surcharge on their profits potentially rising from 3% to 8%, making it the Budget’s biggest revenue raiser
- HMRC will be given powers to seize money from the bank accounts of people who fail to pay their tax
- The freeze on rail fares will reportedly not be extended beyond April
- Online retailers like Amazon, eBay and Temu will be made responsible for collecting unpaid VAT from sellers to fund a cut in business rates for high street shops
- The thresholds for income tax will be frozen again so another half a million people may be dragged into the higher rate
- January's planned increase in fuel duty will be cancelled
- Pensioners relying solely on the state pension will see their tax-free allowance rise to £13,036, in line with the pension increase, so they don't pay income tax
- Billions in long-term borrowing to invest in defence firms and raise the share of GDP spent on defence (without breaking fiscal rules, as the investments are expected to generate returns)
- The upcoming "Your First Home" scheme will be made more generous to provide greater support for middle-income earners
- The Budget will also assume the Rosebank oil field is approved, which will generate "significant tax revenues"
Stumac26 retweeted
The Great British Decay.
Britain’s infrastructure is not just quietly declining, it is slow-motion collapse based on local and national government neglect - a mixture of incompetence and deliberate asset stripping. The British public are being gaslit into paying higher taxes for national decline while feathering the nests of the corporate donors of whatever government is neglecting to serve in our best interests while in power.
Local roads carry an £18.6 billion repair backlog. There are over a million potholes. A sort of nationwide obstacle course that extracts tens of billions a year in damaged cars, lost time and the anger of anyone who has just heard their car suspension make a noise it shouldn’t because the car was swallowed by a unseen pothole covered by a puddle from a blocked road drain that the local council couldn’t be arsed to fix.
The water network leaks nearly a fifth of the supply. Much of it was installed when Queen Victoria was still on the throne and appears to have been designed on the assumption that water pipes, like the monarchy, would last forever. Replacement rates imply that governments expect some of them to keep working for a thousand years.
Meanwhile, water sewage spills have become so routine that “there’s been another discharge” barely qualifies as news. Water companies sold off 39 reservoirs over 34 years and built none. Instead, the Labour government has decided that the urgent national priority is spending £22 billion on carbon-capture machines and destroying energy and water supply with massive resource guzzling data centres. Hosepipe bans and wood burner restrictions for us, but energy and water guzzling for the tech giants.
Gas storage is among the lowest in Europe. Oil refineries are shut. But hey, let’s plaster solar panels on prime farmland and pay £billions to turn the wind turbines off because we haven’t got the infrastructures to use the energy.
Governments would rather pay Norway £billions to import oil and gas from the same sea that they decided to switch off the taps to tick a net zero virtue box.
Road signs aren’t cleaned and maintained regularly. Road drains are blocked and clogged with debris. Rubbish isn’t collected until overspills. Weeds on the pavement are apparently a bold rewilding strategy by local councils. On the railways, about a quarter of delays are caused by the infrastructure itself.
Projects run late, over budget and frequently end up counterproductive or much smaller than initially advertised. Short political cycles, fragmented delivery, laziness and bureaucratic planning systems that treat a new reservoir or blocked road drain as a wasteful inconvenience.
We have successive governments who prefer empty TikTok videos of politicians eating crisps rather than actually giving a shit to fix a rotting country.
Other countries still treat infrastructure as a basic test of competence rather than an optional extra. Switzerland, the Netherlands, Denmark, Norway, Sweden and Finland score highly for the unglamorous reason that their trains run, their roads don’t swallow cars and their water stays inside the pipes. Japan’s high-speed rail network remains a byword for innovation and reliability.
Britain is a country that once built a powerhouse Industrial Revolution, but now struggles to keep the lights on, food on the shelves, water in the pipes and the tarmac on the road. Governments appear to be more concerned with giving our tax money to Ukraine, free hotels to illegal migrants and digital ID surveillance to monitor its own citizens rather than fulfil the unglamorous habits that use our our tax money towards effective public service: long-term maintenance, infrastructure improvements, cost discipline and the willingness to finish things on time and built infrastructures to last for future generations.
A fish rots from the head up. And the British infrastructure rot is headed by decades of wilful neglect from our governments.
Stumac26 retweeted
🚨 The Department for Transport got its accounts wrong by almost £20 BILLION.
That comes directly from the National Audit Office.
Seriously. Nearly £20bn of errors in the official value of Britain’s roads and railways.
How on earth does a Government department get figures THAT wrong?
And remember this is the SAME department that spent £251m on roads that will NEVER be built.
Meanwhile, this Government keeps telling us there isn’t enough money…
❌ £330bn borrowed since July 2024
❌ £70bn in tax rises announced
❌ Even more tax rises being considered
Perhaps before demanding another penny from taxpayers…
…they should get their own financial house in order.
Our tax money is a joke to these people.
Stumac26 retweeted
Walker: "I nearly bought a wool jumper in town. £140. Nice work if you can get it."
Farmer: "I got about £2 for the fleece."
Walker: "£2?"
Farmer: "Per sheep, per year. Clipped it off her in two minutes, rolled it, bagged it, drove it to the depot. The cheque for the whole flock didn't cover the diesel."
Walker: "Then who's getting the £140?"
Farmer: "Not me, not the shearer. He costs me more per sheep than the wool fetches. I pay to have it taken off."
Walker: "So you lose money shearing."
Farmer: "Every year. And I can't not shear, or she cooks in July and the flies eat her alive. The wool's a welfare job that used to be an income."
Walker: "Sell it yourself, then. Cut out the middleman."
Farmer: "Not allowed. By law it goes through the board. Has done since 1950. I can keep a fleece for the wife to knit with, and that's about the extent of my freedom."
Walker: "So where does it go?"
Farmer: "Washed in Bradford, if we're lucky. Shipped to China, spun, knitted, shipped back, and sold to you with a label about heritage. By the time it's in the window there are eleven people between us and I'm the only one who met the sheep."
Walker: "That's mad."
Farmer: "My grandfather paid the rent on the wool cheque. I pay a man to take it away. Same sheep, same hill, same jumper in the window. Only the price of the farmer went down."
Walker: "What would fix it?"
Farmer: "You buying the jumper. And asking them where the other £138 went."
Stumac26 retweeted
@AngelaRayner, did you allow Islamist extremists to influence the drafting of the “anti-Muslim hostility” definition?
It’s a simple yes-or-no question.
If not, why did your department claim that it had deleted all responses to the Working Group’s consultation, only to say — after the Free Speech Union threatened legal action — that the responses were still held on its data system?
And why does your department still refuse to disclose who responded to the consultation?
While we’re at it: if, as your Permanent Secretary confirmed in a letter to @NJ_Timothy, ministers had no involvement in this decision, who is running your department?
The public deserves to know the truth.
Stumac26 retweeted
The UK government has taken £870 billion in green taxes in the last 20 years. We are being fleeced on the altar of net zero. The cost of living crisis is a cost of government taxation crisis.
Stumac26 retweeted
John Healey is considering imposing a ‘carbon charge’ on imported fuel like petrol and diesel in the Budget.
The Labour government are a bunch of economic illiterates. All that this will do is increase further costs for the British motorist during a cost of living crisis.
Stumac26 retweeted
You want an honest discussion Andy? Try this
17.4 million people voted to stop this freedom of movement shambles and now a PM with fewer than 25,000 votes from a constituency which voted overwhelmingly to leave the EU … arrogantly thinks he has a mandate to take the rest of us back in.
He doesn’t 💣
Stumac26 retweeted
We now see the full extent of preplanning and empire-building that went into the United Nations' global warming campaign.
It was all behind the scenes. Today, the UN has a workforce of roughly 190,000 and an annual budget of $3.45 billion. It has become a vast self-managing, self perpetuating bureaucracy - arguably the largest non-governmental network in the world. The UN had been laying the groundwork for an environmental crisis for decades before it was finally announced in 1988.
The UN took control of the World Meteorological Organization in 1951, transforming it into a specialised UN agency. The WMO operates with an annual budget of approximately $138.7 million and has a staff of 350 to 400.
The WMO bridges the gap between raw meteorological data, international political agendas and global news media - linking thousands of land stations, ocean buoys, aircraft and satellites. While its stated role is to share critical weather and water data, this massive infrastructure has been effectively co-opted into a public relations framework.
Consequently, the world has been bombarded with weather hysteria for almost 40 years. Mainstream news outlets routinely prioritise speculative, worst-case climate models over empirical observations - like 'rain bombs' - maintaining a permanent state of crisis designed to shape public compliance.
The information gathering agency, the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change, runs the scientific arm. It operates with a core secretariat of just 15 staff members and an annual budget of roughly $12.5 million. The IPCC was established 38 years ago, ostensibly as a neutral body to gather objective scientific information on climate.
In reality, the IPCC became the driving force behind the greatest environmental and social upheaval in modern history. Highly politicised from its inception, it was founded entirely by UN agencies - the WMO and the UN Environment Programme. This gave the UN absolute control over the global climate agenda and funded what has become the largest propaganda campaign in history.
The UN has also run annual fund raising COP summits around the world for 30 years. They have become junkets for the rich and privileged.
The IPCC did not recruit independent scientific staff; instead, its administrative apparatus actively sponsors and selects studies that supported the carbon dioxide hypothesis. Research raising questions or doubts are minimised or discarded. Critics find their studies starved of funding and publishers, while some even faced threats to their academic tenures.
Local weather outlets and national agencies now operate inside an ecosystem heavily influenced by these overarching, high-alarm targets, broadcasting continuous warnings of 'global boiling', catastrophic sea-level rise, and 'Code Red for Humanity' - with UN leadership acting as the chief amplifier. This environment birthed foundational, highly charged studies designed to lock in future warming projections.
For decades, the UN promoted only extreme scenarios. A prime example is the IPCC's reliance on high-end warming trajectories - such as projections warning of up to a 5.5-degree temperature rise - predictions so extreme that even mainstream scientists have increasingly conceded they are implausible.
Armed with a crisis of its own making, the UN called for the rapid dismantling of hydrocarbon fuels - coal, oil, and natural gas - the very energy sources that lifted humanity out of stagnation and powered the Industrial Revolution. Almost every aspect of modern civilisation, from transport networks to industrial manufacturing, relies entirely on these dense, inexpensive and reliable energy sources.
Climate management bears no relation to the UN’s foundational charter of resolving international conflict; it's a textbook case of bureaucratic mission creep.
The sheer complexity of this UN machinery, combined with an aura of technical authority, is precisely what insulates it from public scrutiny.
Stumac26 retweeted
Indeed Bernie. Bodies lying all over the place here in Europe.
No, wait. The 32,000 is not an actual body count. It’s the result of modelling by Imperial College on the basis of several dubious assumptions.
People did die of heat this summer. They usually do when it gets v hot e.g 1976, 2003. The exact number is not clear.
But even if 32,000 was a real figure we know for sure many, many more will die of cold this winter. They always do.
Stumac26 retweeted
UK Treasury confirms extra £20bn over five years for the so-called National Wealth Fund (£15bn) and the state-owned British Business Bank (£5bn), which lends to business.
Treasury claims this will support around 100,000 jobs by 2035 in AI, defence and green energy — a figure it has pretty much plucked out of thin air and will never really be tested because by 2035 everyone will have forgotten such a modest announcement.
Two takeaways:
Yet more government borrowing. It’s an addiction.
Illustrates government philosophy: growth will come from a bigger, more activist state. Ho hum.
Stumac26 retweeted
Eva Vlaardingerbroek was banned from travelling to the UK by the Labour government under Kier Starmer.
She was seen as a threat with her crazy ideas of EUROPE FOR EUROPEANS.
Then 3 days ago we discovered the man who removed Ken Bigleys head live on camera and set fire to 12 women and children in a cage is living in Windsor at taxpayers expense.
Can someone please explain this to me because im struggling to find the logic.
It tells me that our own government actively hates us.
Stumac26 retweeted
PUBLIC SECTOR PENSIONS TO HIT £60 BILLION
Forget fiddling with the triple lock. It's not state pensions that will being our economy down.
It's all those gilt-edged index-linked pensions for public sector workers with jobs for life.
telegraph.co.uk/gift/53c7efe…
Stumac26 retweeted
Wow! There should be no politics, lanyards, badges Or ideologies in school. Leave our kids alone. Teach them don’t politicise them
Stumac26 retweeted
Seed oils were sold as paint for a century before they were sold as food, and they do in you what they do on a window frame.
Linseed oil hardens on a fence post in a few days. Chemists call it a drying oil.
Soybean oil hardens too. So does sunflower, so does safflower. They were sold to the paint trade before they were sold to the kitchen.
Linoleum was invented in 1860 and it is named after linseed oil, because that is what it is, oxidised and pressed into a floor.
The oil does not dry by evaporating. It dries by oxygen attacking the double bonds in its fats and welding them into a hard skin.
The oil in your chip pan and the oil in your body carry the same double bonds, so the same attack runs there, with aldehydes thrown off as it goes.
A painter calls that curing. A biochemist calls it lipid peroxidation. A doctor calls it inflammation and prescribes something for it.
Once the oil is in your fat, it stays about two years, drying from the inside, every time it meets oxygen or sunlight.
Butter never dried a fence post. Tallow never varnished a boat. Saturated fat has no double bond for oxygen to attack, which is why it sits in the pan for a week and why it sat in your great-grandmother's cells for a lifetime.
A fat that sets hard in the air was never a candidate for the inside of an artery.
The flooring industry understood the chemistry in 1860. The heart charity recommended it in April.
Stumac26 retweeted
🚨 Our Armed Forces are shrinking…
…yet civilian staffing costs keep rising.
I’ve gone through the Ministry of Defence’s latest audit.
Read what I uncovered here: leenallalingham.substack.com…
Stumac26 retweeted
Ofgem has issued an unprecedented warning that it cannot guarantee Britain’s energy demand will be met during peak winter conditions.
Heat, power, & light: all at risk due to potential gas shortages in a country blessed with deep gas reserves - untapped & left dormant due to political choice.
British consumers & businesses will now pay an even higher price for increased dependence on foreign supply. This is an unacceptable failure of energy policy & national energy security.
ofgem.gov.uk/sites/default/f…
Stumac26 retweeted
From 13 December, the UK will require folic acid to be added to most non-wholemeal wheat flour, affecting bread, pastries and other everyday foods. Folic acid is not the same as naturally occurring folate.
But small mills producing under 500 tonnes annually can qualify for an exemption.
I'm identifying independent mills offering unfortified flour so consumers can exercise informed choice.
Consumers deserve transparency and choice.
Are you a miller? Get in touch.
Please sign and share the petition below: petition.parliament.uk/petit…
