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@mikerainham @FinanceTiger Uncertainty is the death knell for companies and investment planning

@FinanceTiger It’s tempted by tax raids, then panics voters might not want additional taxes, then U turns yet again

🇬🇧 Labour consistently delivers uncertainty and nothing else.

Chinese Firms Speed Up Plans to Build New Coal Power Plants Chinese firms are accelerating the pace at which they propose new coal-fired power plants, even as the government moves to rein in growth after the rapid expansion in recent years. Companies requested approval for 51 gigawatts of new plants in the first quarter of the year, according to Global Energy Monitor, ahead of the record pace set in 2025 that saw 162 gigawatts of new proposals over the full year. Construction has boomed since a spate of power shortages in 2021 and 2022 as the government touts coal’s role as a reliable back-up to intermittent renewables. (Bloomberg)

@Nitromanuk Yes the UK storage problem is catastrophic. A national disaster really. Is there a plan to fix this? I’d suggest no as we aren’t very spoilt on the ‘good plan’ front but we have an abundance of the ‘blame someone else and hide behind the sofa’ type of planning

The UK has 2 weeks of gas reserves left. 1, we have little storage capacity and 2, due to the blocking of new exploration. What government in their right minds allows this?

No. Honestly what I believe are that no parties have a fully credible plan to cope with the new world we are facing including the debt the West has and the USA Donroe doctrine they are pursuing. Yes Labour are awful and really it was a protest vote against the Tories who also never had a plan. Labour are tinkering around the edges as they do not have a solution. I wish I felt more positive and yes I’d like a change as we need some hope

Who believes Labour were put in power to intentionally ruin the UK?

@politicReformed @policylaila Will it ‘stand up’ that is a great question

@policylaila Because if the left say it they would stand up for women's rights and they don't want to do that.

A woman cannot have a penis! Why is that so hard to say!

@Fr12ee44Spewxh @joe022020 Tory or not the Reform / Restore spat should really help Conservatives at the next GE. I’m sure she totally sees this

Labour are fighting each other. Reform and Restore are at each other’s throat. Polanski has become as useless as the LibDems. Kemi is right. The only serious party focussed on getting Britain working again is the Conservatives.

@stumblebum54 @Mindset4Money_X @DrunkRepub I think you’ll find it was called Airnie

@Mindset4Money_X @DrunkRepub Did you know that the name of Cyberdyne Systems’ first model was Claude?

Consultants charging $800/hr after pasting the client's problem into Claude:

@EMBurlingame This is a truly great scene. Quite haunting if you are familiar with the context

One actor, in one scene, in one movie, summed the reality of an entire generation forever after. And we didn't know it then. Gen X is Roy Batty. youtu.be/HU7Ga7qTLDU?si…

@vulpine2020 @SimonMagus I feel this is true but see no willing at a government level to even consider this.

£100bn to start. It needs to be more really

@Artemisfornow It must be great to have a job where you don’t have to ever achieve anything and you can indulge your fantasies 24 / 7

Hmm … but 16 year olds are old enough to vote.

Oh great … Lammy wants criminals under the age of 25 to be treated as CHILDREN. So if a 24 year old sexually assaults someone, it’s because they are just a child and didn’t know any better. This is going to work out so well isn’t it? Utterly bonkers 🤡

@elliehodges62 Pan this out to the general election and we get some wonky thinking

Restore about to put Burnham into No 10. This is selfish from Rupert Lowe and shows this is all for his own interests and not for the good of this country. We don’t have time to mess around.

Sausage Tax is nearly on us. It’s been a while but we can expect inflation in the name of saving the planet. theguardian.com/business/2025/…

@wendywoo6089 @Jenny_1884 @barryAshcroft4 Not a zero possibility I’d say

@Jenny_1884 @barryAshcroft4 Unless of course it’s all been fixed

Andy Burnham seems convinced he’s going to win in Makerfield. Who else believes he’s got a rude awakening coming to him?

@wrigglydon @julianHjessop And Trump

@julianHjessop And Starmer will blame Brexit for all price rises.

"Food prices to rise as £2bn packaging tax goes ahead" thetimes.com/article/a092a4…

@_jaylawrence @TraderWarner Yeah I have looked before and sort of get it but buying stocks always seems to get my dosh

Yeah the way they are priced part is usually the part most don’t understand. But this unique opportunity is due to the period of ultra-low interest rates. Gilts that were issued when interest rates were close to 0% pay the majority of the return as capital growth (which is exempt from capital gains tax). Only the coupon is taxed (but because it’s close to 0% there’s very little to tax). Probably best to ask ChatGPT a series of questions if you want to better understand why low coupon gilts pay the return as capital growth, but it’s a smart way to generate lower risk returns for higher rate taxpayers and above

When people started talking about Holding cash in S&S ISA or Money Market Funds, my first thought was, once Rachel Reeves realises this, she will go after it…. And here we are 😩

@TraderWarner @philsdividends Serving what might be coming is just a head 🤯

It’s exhausting really. The Land Value Tax that Andy Burnham would bring in aswell is the right policy but they’re focusing on the WRONG Property tax areas. The LVT needs to be on UNIMPROVED LAND VALUES. Not residentials, commercials. Socialist governments will Tax everything as they want equality and fair distributions, they do not like wealth. Socialist governments in isolation cannot work. The best balance would be a coalition!!!!

@_jaylawrence @TraderWarner I’m not a expert on gilts but this always seemed quite hard to get your head round. Probably just me.

@TraderWarner Buy short dated gilts instead. And if you buy low-coupon ones they are tax efficient and can be held in a taxable account, leaving your ISA for growth

@nigelpm_uk @Trader__007 Am not sure about you guys but I’m not seeing that good an interest rate paid in my ISAs?

@Trader__007 Calm down - it's only tax on interest on savings - it's a loophole at the moment to be honest.

Labour will literally tax anything. Boot them out at every opportunity. They don't believe in people working hard, saving & letting them enjoy the fruits of their own hard work. The sooner we get rid of Labour the better.

@alexwickham Don’t we just need good people with vision who have experience rather than more folks that would only last 5 minutes if they were actually accountable? Radical I know

NEW: Bloomberg Saturday read Is Andy Burnham Labour’s saviour, or is it just… vibes? — The last week has been fascinating. Burnham has had a bumpy start. He’s boxed himself in by committing to the fiscal rules and Labour’s manifesto on tax. It significantly limits his room for manoeuvre to deliver his promise of change. — Some in Labour worry he’s already trapped by the same political and economic constraints that hampered Keir Starmer. While there’s no doubt he polls better and has more energy, they stress he isn’t a messiah who can fix all their problems. — Burnham performed 5 u-turns this week: on rejoining the EU, on the fiscal rules, backing a hardline immigration policy, reversing his trans views, and ditching a 50p top rate of tax. An MP on the left says he looks inauthentic. Another compares it to Starmer’s safety-first Ming vase strategy. — More clarifications are coming. Allies say it’ll be difficult to drop Starmer’s Brexit red lines on the single market and customs union before an election, and that it’ll be hard to fully nationalise energy and water. Ambitions are being scaled back. — A supporter says he’s being sensible and scraping the barnacles off the boat. But it shows he knows he has the same problem as Starmer losing votes both left and right, and he has a similar response: picking policies that appeal to each side. — So what’s different? Tax rises on capital sound likely, but that won’t raise much money and he’s now ruled out touching the big taxes. Some in Labour worry about the impact on growth and investment of a virtue-signalling tax policy. — One MP warns that by loudly promising “real change” but not giving himself the room to deliver it, Burnham could quickly see the public turn on him, just as they did on Starmer. The criticism doing the rounds is that he is just Starmerism with vibes and a northern accent. — There are growing concerns about the lack of serious planning Burnham has done for No10. His policy platform is erratic. His political operation is threadbare and largely consists of Ed Miliband’s team. MPs are appealing to Burnham to quickly expand his circle to avoid the sort of factional warfare that did for Starmer. — Some MPs also worry Burnham might immediately enter an economic downturn and new cost-of-living crisis just as he becomes PM, which the public will inevitably blame him for, preventing a honeymoon period. Some think he made a strategic error going so soon and should have let Starmer take the pain coming in the next six months. — Some MPs also want Burnham to stop getting into fights on Twitter, which he has been doing all week, raising eyebrows. His supporters say he’s a unity candidate who can attract voters from across the political divide. This campaign is already putting that to the test. bloomberg.com/news/articles/…

@ChadeFall5tar @PaulEmbery @budzy2016 Honestly it is hysterical. Tax going abroad and cut vat on Lego Land in the hope money will stay here. Beware the bread 🍞 and circus 🤡 play we have seen it before

@PaulEmbery @budzy2016 The summer reduction of VAT on theme parks etc has landed very much as "let them eat cake" Hard to imagine a more tin eared policy.

I'm a lifelong football fan and longstanding labour movement activist. This sort of thing - the routine chanting of abuse by football fans towards a Labour prime minister - is something very new. I don't actually like it much - as Tony Benn said, politics should be about "issues, not personalities" - but it does serve as further proof of how much things are shifting in our country and how the anger of working-class people is growing. We need to listen to them.