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Jon Jo Jones retweeted
THIS. My view is that if we are going to eventually fuck off the EU trade deal, we should basically make the UK a closed market for EU shitwagons, and revive the practice of making cars people actually want.
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"Why does Britain suddenly need so much reassurance?"
Because NESO is lying and so is the government.
Don't panic. Buy candles.
As the Prime Minister urges households to prepare for a three-day emergency, and the grid operator insists the lights will stay on, why does Britain suddenly need so much reassurance?
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#climaterealism #sustainableeconomy
With all the talk of tagging today, I noticed that a trainee probation office is now pretty much a minimum wage profession.
Jon Jo Jones retweeted
We're paying up to £700/MWh to keep the lights on.
So this is interesting... Wind output has collapsed today so you'd expect balancing costs to fall
And they have, but not as much as you'd think... Still over £10 million today vs an average of £2.3 million
With the grid dominated by dispatchable generation today it's curious that it's still so expensive to balance the grid
Jon Jo Jones retweeted
I have read it Bob, and it tells us that @KathrynPorter26 is correct. It says...
"Unfortunately, balancing costs are increasing and are predicted to go up from around £2bn a year now to as much as £8bn by 2030. That’s because over 60% of these costs are what we call ‘thermal constraints’. These typically come about when we need to take action to manage high amounts of wind generation in the north because it's unable to reach demand in the south. Put plainly, the cables don’t exist yet. To prevent the existing cables from overheating and catching fire due to excessive current flowing through them, NESO acts to turn down wind output to avoid a power outage.".
It's an admission that wind energy creates the grid instability, and that the grid was never designed to cope with diffuse intermittent sources of energy, which requires us to spend billions on additional transmission lines and mitigation infrastructure. The more wind turbines we add, the greater the instability and the more we have to spend on short term grid balancing. The costs of mitigating wind generation, and wind subsidies, dwarf what it would cost to build dispatchable energy generation where energy is actually used.
I recommend reading this from @neso_energy about balancing costs instead of swallowing propaganda from @KathrynPorter26: neso.energy/news/energy-expl…
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British families face the worst decade for household incomes on record, IFS warns after Budget lbc.co.uk/article/british-fa…
Jon Jo Jones retweeted
The minimum wage is anti-business. It makes viable businesses unviable. It is anti-freedom as it makes some work illegal.
It is pro vibes.
Abolish the government.
Local piemaker explains how Burnham's first Budget will make things much worse:
"I don’t qualify for the business rates relief because I’m multi-site… I’ve got two shops, so I don’t qualify. The minimum wage has increased. I’m not saying we shouldn’t pay staff. I’m saying we can’t afford to pay them…
All my staff have been with us for years. So I’m going to have approximately a £700 a week increase. My suppliers are having an increase too. My supply bills are around £20,000 to £30,000 a week. That’ll go up 10%, so £2,000 to £3,000 a week. So that’s £4,000 a week I’ve got to find…
That’s about 20,000 to 30,000 pies a week. So my costs have gone up. I’ve got no business rates relief. The National Insurance is crippling me. The energy crisis is crippling me. I’m going to have to put my prices up,
Customers are going to get mad. I’m going to get less profit. As a family, as a director, I’ve got to take a 2% cut. So my family, my one-year-old girl. I’m taking a pay cut. The business is taking a pay cut.
How is that breathing room for me? Where’s my breathing space? John Healey, if you’re listening, where’s my breathing space? You promised me. You promised the UK breathing space. Where is it?"
As I have been saying for many 🌒 🌒
A pay rise that matches inflation does not match inflation.
Unlike benefits and pensions.
Someone earning £50,000 who receives a 5% pay rise will see their salary increase by £2,500.
However, after Income Tax and National Insurance, they'll only receive £1,487.80 meaning their actual take-home pay has increased by just 3.76%.
What happens if their household's cost of living increases by 10% at the same time?
To maintain the same purchasing power, they'd need an additional £3,951.96 in take-home pay.
Instead, they've received £1,487.80.
That's a shortfall of £2,464.16 per year, despite receiving a 5% pay rise.
To maintain their previous standard of living, their salary would actually need to increase from £50,000 to approximately £56,749.
That's a 13.5% pay rise simply to stand still.
With the higher-rate Income Tax threshold frozen at £50,270, more of their earnings are being subjected to 40% tax.
At the same time, UK government debt has now exceeded £3 trillion, with £10.9 billion in debt interest payable in September alone.
As the cost of servicing this debt continues to rise, so does the financial pressure on the government.
One way to alleviate that pressure is through higher taxation, placing an even greater burden on working people who are already struggling to maintain their standard of living.
This is one of the reasons why so many working people feel they're earning more money every year, yet their standard of living continues to decline.
The problem isn't necessarily how much money people earn.
It's how much they keep, and what that money can actually buy.
Jon Jo Jones retweeted
Remarkable scenes as the CEO of OFCOM explains just how shit at her job she is. Fair play to her for being so honest it's like a breath of fresh air
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Poundland has filed a notice of intention to appoint administrators, putting around 12,000 jobs and the future of its roughly 600 stores across the UK and Ireland at risk.
The discount retailer, owned by the US investment firm Gordon Brothers, is seeking court protection that would give it about 10 working days of breathing space from creditors while it looks for a rescue deal or other solution.
The filing is not full administration yet, but it is a formal step that typically precedes the appointment of administrators with AlixPartners widely reported as the firm lined up to handle the process if it proceeds.
The move follows Gordon Brothers’ rejection of a solvent takeover offer from Northern Ireland’s Martin Property Group a bid that had the backing of Poundland’s management, including managing director Barry Williams.
Williams told staff in a memo that the situation was “unexpected, unwanted and wholly avoidable.”
The disagreement centres in large part on a roughly £30 million shareholder loan that Gordon Brothers inherited when it bought the chain for a nominal £1 from Pepco in June 2025; the Martin Property Group offer is understood to have fallen short of what the owners were seeking to recover.
Three independent directors recently appointed to help oversee a sale process are reported to have resigned amid the dispute.
Business Secretary Jonathan Reynolds has written to Gordon Brothers seeking clarity on the situation. Rival retailers including Poundstretcher,
The Range, B&M and others are said to be interested in acquiring some of the stores or parts of the business, which could preserve some jobs, though a full break-up remains a real possibility.
The uncertainty comes just weeks before Christmas and has raised concerns among unions such as Usdaw about potential redundancies.
The ignorance of elected officials everywhere 🫠🫠🫠
Scotland already has its own banknotes, so we could simply carry on printing our own money if we became independent? We can set our own central bank if we have the powers. That’s it simple.
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Jon Jo Jones retweeted
ANDREW NEIL: Healey's talk of prudence couldn't hide his profligacy... dailymail.com/debate/article… via @DailyMail
Jon Jo Jones retweeted
CEOs have 1 single job
Create shareholder value
It’s the politicians who need to think about what happens when unemployment hits 10%
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'How can you be satisfied with that?' Andrew Neil challenges Labour MP o... youtu.be/TwakeuYN4DA?is=Ipty… via @YouTube
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They know it needs fixing - but also know Labour MPs won't vote for it
No 10 tries to set the record straight.
They *won't* guarantee benefit spending will fall before the next election, and add it wouldn't be right to set an "arbitrary target or timeline on that”.
The PM’s spokesman says the welfare bill “needs to come down” but refuses to be drawn on how much by or based on what measure. Only that there won’t be “crude cuts”.
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Healey Lowers Capital Gains Tax for 600 People and Hikes It for 10,000 order-order.com/2026/10/29/h…
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Labour's increase in income tax on property and savings income is a direct breach of its manifesto commitment not to raise income tax.
"Labour will not increase taxes on working people, which is why we will not increase National Insurance, the basic, higher, or additional rates of Income Tax, or VAT," was the precise wording in the manifesto, yet Labour will now increase income tax by 4% on property and savings income.
Rachel Reeves made it clear in 2024 that savers were "working people", saying "there are people who do have savings, who have been able to save up and those are working people as well."
It's a clear breach of the central promise on which they were elected.
Jon Jo Jones retweeted
I’m demanding a stronger Royal Navy. You wish to dismantle Britain’s defences. You have zero interest in military matters. I think we’ll leave it to others to decide who is more ridiculous.
