#Dagenham born #Bulphan bred, caffeine dependent dad of 3, #vending entrepreneur & investor ex @selectdrinks @vineyardwbk now @3cvending
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Peter Adams retweeted
📈 Raising interest rates won’t cut your energy bill or the price at the pump.
🏠 But it will hit your mortgage again.
Inflation is being driven by energy and transport. Mortgage rates have already climbed a lot this year. Another hike doesn’t fix the cause — it just hammers homeowners while banks collect more.
This is a supply shock. Stop treating it like a demand problem.
Peter Adams retweeted
🚨 "I DON'T THINK EMPLOYERS ARE WORKING PEOPLE"
That's the Chief Secretary to the Treasury, Emma Reynolds.
So who are Britain's employers?
🔴 1.42 MILLION businesses employ staff
✅ 81% of them have fewer than 10 staff
❌ Just 8,335 are large firms
💷 SMEs provide 16.9 MILLION jobs, 60% of private sector employment
Not faceless corporations. The builder with an apprentice. The café owner. The local hairdresser.
Perhaps ministers should meet a few of them.
Are business owners not working people?
Peter Adams retweeted
Gurkhas from the Queen's Own Gurkha a Logistic Corps, proudly supported the Royal British Legion Poppy Appeal at South Kensington and Sloane Square this week, raising over £20,000.
The volunteers came from 28 Squadron.
Absolute respect to the gurkha's x
Peter Adams retweeted
Slavery was an evil in which people from every continent and region participated. We should be honest about the whole history, not select the parts that are politically convenient today, especially given Britain's leading role in ending the transatlantic slave trade.
If Caribbean countries are asking Britain for a formal apology for Britain’s role in the transatlantic slave trade, will they also be asking the same of the descendants of African kingdoms, rulers and merchants who captured, sold and profited from the trade?
On demands for reparations, whether through cash or debt relief, we have been down this track before. Twenty-five years ago, Jubilee 2000, Drop the Debt and Make Poverty History argued that cancelling the debts of poorer countries would give them a fresh start. More than $100 billion of debt was eventually written off, but many of those countries have since built up even bigger debts. Labour are already spending too much on Britain's welfare state, now is not the time for Andy Burnham to be providing global welfare.
There is no reason British taxpayers today should be held financially responsible for things that happened generations before any of us were born. And I have even less patience for political elites in commonwealth countries who don’t know how to make their own citizens prosperous now looking for another opportunity to blame Britain.
As Prime Minister, Andy Burnham should be Britain’s greatest defender. Instead, he is writing articles saying we need to confront our history (as if we haven't done enough of that) and considering another formal historical apology. Tony Blair already expressed Britain’s deep sorrow and regret for our role in the slave trade nearly twenty years ago. There is no need to do so again.
This is all another navel-gazing distraction. The Commonwealth should be looking forward, not endlessly backwards. That means economic partnerships to make us all richer and deeper military and security cooperation against common threats. If every Commonwealth summit becomes an exercise in presenting Britain with demands for cash then we need to start asking if it is worth the effort.
Peter Adams retweeted
🚨 INFLATION IS MAKING YOU POORER WHILE THE GOVERNMENT COLLECTS MORE TAX!
Get a 4% pay rise to match 4% inflation?
❌ Your take-home pay rises just 3.4%.
💰 Your income tax and NI bill rises 6.3%.
YOU lose purchasing power. THE TREASURY collects more.
That's fiscal drag. 👇
Peter Adams retweeted
In 1967 Britain had more electric vehicles on its roads than every other country on earth put together, and they were all delivering milk.
There were tens of thousands of them. The milk float: open sided, battery under the floor, top speed of about 15 miles an hour, and a whine you could pick out in your sleep. It was charged overnight at the depot and was back there by lunchtime.
It carried glass bottles. Each one was collected from your step the next morning, washed and refilled. A bottle went round like that 20 or 30 times before it broke. The foil cap went for scrap. There was no other packaging.
The milk had come from farms within a few miles, through a local dairy, and was on the step before 7.
So here is what the country had. A zero-emission delivery fleet. Reusable containers with a return rate any modern scheme would kill for. No plastic. A supply chain you could cycle the length of. A man who noticed if an old lady's bottles were piling up, and knocked.
It was dismantled in about 15 years, because a supermarket could sell milk a few pence cheaper in a plastic jug as a way of getting you through the door.
Every piece of that system is now the subject of a government target for 2040.
It was running in 1967, silently, in the dark, and nobody thought it was worth a mention.
Peter Adams retweeted
So scrapping the triple lock would save £600M by 29/30
Didn’t this government just give Angola over £600M for their airport?
So this government puts Angola before their own pensioners.
The kind caring Labour Party. NOT.
Peter Adams retweeted
🚨 DIESEL IS HITTING £2 A LITRE
The UK average is now 198.3p a litre, and many forecourts have already passed £2. My local is one of them.
And as prices rise, the Treasury automatically takes more VAT.
Diesel has risen almost 56p a litre since the end of February, adding roughly 9p more VAT per litre.
At £2 a litre, around 86p is tax, including fuel duty and VAT.
Drivers are being hammered by a global energy shock while the Government collects more tax from every litre.
Should some of that extra VAT be given back to motorists?
Peter Adams retweeted
The UK currently holds only 42 days of diesel in its emergency stockpiles. While the UK stands at just 42 days, countries like Italy hold 347 days, the USA has 677 days and Canada and Japan maintain over 1,000 days of supply.
In the early 2000s, Britain held over 100 days of diesel reserves. However, as major domestic oil refineries closed down over the years, the country's massive storage tanks disappeared with them, leaving the UK heavily reliant on just-in-time imports.
That is the jeopardy facing every supermarket shelf, every hospital delivery, every harvest, every bin collection and every freight train that still keeps Britain functioning. And the system that supplies that fuel security has been allowed to grow dangerously thin.
Meanwhile the UK’s ability to make that fuel itself has been dismantled. From eighteen refineries in the 1970s to nine at the turn of the century, Britain is now down to just four: Domestic demand already exceeded refining capacity before those closures. The gap is filled by imports - more than half of the diesel that goes into British tanks.
This has happened through a long succession of terrible government choices and neglect that treated energy security as an afterthought. Carbon costs were loaded onto plants that operate here, while higher-carbon fuel could be imported without equivalent burden. Almost every government over the past 20 years helped to create this looming crisis.
Diesel is the engine room of the economy. And successive governments have allowed the tanks to run towards empty.
Shameful.
Peter Adams retweeted
🚨 TAXES ARE RISING. SPENDING IS RISING FASTER.
Britain borrowed £18.3bn in August, 19% more than a year ago.
But the bigger story is spending.
Receipts are £1.1bn above forecast.
Central government spending is £7.4bn above forecast.
Borrowing is £8.1bn above forecast.
Britain’s public finances have a spending problem
Peter Adams retweeted
If you are feeling poorer since Labour gained power. This is why..
Employer National Insurance increased from 13.8% to 15%.
• The employer NI threshold cut from £9,100 to £5,000.
• Income Tax and National Insurance thresholds frozen until 2031.
• Capital Gains Tax increased from 10% and 20% to 18% and 24%.
• Business Asset Disposal Relief increased from 10% to 14%, then 18%.
• Investors Relief increased and its lifetime allowance cut from £10 million to £1 million.
• Carried interest taxation increased and moved towards the Income Tax regime.
• Dividend tax rates increased by two percentage points.
• Savings income tax rates increased by two percentage points.
• Property income tax rates increased by two percentage points.
• Most unused pension funds brought into the Inheritance Tax net.
• Agricultural Property Relief restricted.
• Business Property Relief restricted.
• Inheritance Tax thresholds frozen for longer.
• The non-dom regime replaced with a more extensive residence based system.
• VAT imposed on private school fees.
• Business rates relief removed from private schools.
• Stamp Duty increased on second homes and buy to let properties.
• The Furnished Holiday Lettings tax regime abolished.
• Pension salary sacrifice benefits capped at £2,000 before National Insurance applies.
• The Cash ISA allowance cut to £12,000 for most under 65s.
• A 22% charge introduced on interest from cash held inside non cash ISAs.
• Restrictions introduced on transfers and cash like holdings within ISAs.
• The Energy Profits Levy increased and extended.
• Investment allowances for oil and gas producers reduced.
• A new Vaping Products Duty introduced.
• Tobacco duties increased above inflation.
• Vehicle Excise Duty increased for many new cars.
• Electric vehicles brought into the Vehicle Excise Duty system.
• A new mileage tax announced for electric and plug in hybrid cars.
• Air Passenger Duty increased.
• Climate Change Levy rates increased.
• Plastic Packaging Tax increased.
• A new Carbon Border Adjustment Mechanism introduced.
• Making Tax Digital extended to more landlords and self employed people.
Peter Adams retweeted
Because the decent public services never come. The more we spend, the worse they get.
To highlight just one area... we're a nation that spends hundreds of millions NOT to build tunnels.
£179m on the Stonehenge tunnel, despite not a single metre being dug.
£300m on a planning application for the Lower Thames Crossing which spanned 359,000 pages. £1bn gone, just like that, before a spade had even touched the ground.
£2.1bn written off on the HS2 leg that will never get built.
The tax burden is heading for the highest level since records began. Now look around and tell me what it's bought us.
Nobody resents decent public services, or paying for them for that matter. They resent paying for them multiple times over, and never receiving them.
The money was spent. So where are the decent public services?
Billionaire Brexiteeer and Man United owner says he has lost confidence in the UK.
Lives in Monaco to avoid UK taxes, owns several luxury properties. Demands subsidies for Man U stadium.
Why do billionaires resent people getting decent public services?
bbc.co.uk/news/articles/cm04…
Peter Adams retweeted
Unpopular opinion but we spend far too much time organising our society around the lowest 20%.
The poor, violent, uneducated, underperforming, illegals, refugees etc etc we throw BILLIONS at them every year and they never seem to get any better.
Instead we lack any compassion for the productive elements of society who get up every day and go to work. We tax them or 'red tape' them to such an extent that they've clearly stopped producing.
We need to build a society around the top 40% - lets get everyone rich. Start believing in ourselves again.
Peter Adams retweeted
Does anyone remember before the election, when Labour promised they would be careful with our money?
They promised us they had fiscal rules.
They promised no return to huge borrowing.
They promised our kids wouldn't inherit this huge debt.
Let's see how that's going...
Peter Adams retweeted
🚨 NEW - BRITAIN IS STILL LOSING JOBS
The UK has now recorded 7 consecutive monthly falls in payroll employment.
Since Labour came to office, and hit employers with its jobs tax, Britain has lost 216,000 payrolled jobs compared with June 2024.
30.44m → 30.23m
Retail, -138k
Hospitality, -103k
Manufacturing, -69k
Information & communication, -69k
I guess this is what Labour meant by “fixing the foundations.”
Peter Adams retweeted
🚨 BRITAIN’S BABY BUST
Just 585,396 babies were born in England & Wales in 2025 — the lowest total since 1977.
Over roughly 30 years:
🏠 20–34s living with parents: 21% in 1996 → 28.7% in 2025
💷 Homes vs earnings: 3.6x in 1997 → 7.6x in England in 2025
Meanwhile, immigration has increased the population and added further housing demand.
Less affordable homes. Later family formation. Fewer babies.
Is Britain caught in a vicious circle?
