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time for @HomesEngland to inform #landlords & property developers to turn down gas combi boilers to 50 deg C to be condensing mode, that should keep everyone warm and give you enough hot water saving 9% (£100) off your tenants gas bill theheatinghub.co.uk/articles/turn-…

@SimonMagus introduction of smart phones, people glue to them so dont need money to go out to real expereinces ?

Problem with all this is that it doesn't tell us what caused the stagnation in productivity growth. Just that this slowdown is a big factor in our woes. What changed sometime around 2001?

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You should see what our David has done with his latest buy to let. A tired old 1930s detached. He's modernised the lot. New plastic windows, properly insulated. The original front garden was a maintenance nightmare so he's tarmacked it over. Parking for four cars now. He's painted the brickwork a smart grey. Tenants love it. The neighbours aren't happy but they should see it on a sunny day. A sight for sore eyes. Some people just have vision. 🇬🇧

Amy Xgillvirkx Appeal to Save St Josphes if you know of anyone who can save the school facebook.com/groups/2733445…

🗣️ "Top selling musicians are six times more likely to have attended private school." A welcome mention of our research on class inequalities in the creative industries by Baroness Bull in a debate in the House of Lords ⤵️

@TheSecretAcct The tax free allowance of £30k for termination/redundancy payments has not increased since 1989.

@TomHCalver West country farmers cant get labour, no one wants manual labour now.

Two: when milk prices did increase, between 2020 and 2022, it was not because of soaring profits. The biggest contributors: farming costs, overheads, and, most significantly, labour! The idea that prices rise because of profiteering is for the birds 3/3

Amid all the talk of freezing the price of groceries, I looked at what goes into the cost of a pint of milk. Two things jump out... 1/3

@TomHCalver what about the 1 million pound inhertance tax bill dairy farmers are facing paid off over 30 years they need 2 million of profits to pay 1 million iht after tax, you not added that in?

@FinanceTiger Any surprise when they are killing off home grown uk food . inhertance tax, solar panels , monopoly supermarket buyers , carbon taxes on fertizers, min wage increases, no min wage. it crazy that we have any famers left as the could earn more working in a supermarket.

🇬🇧🛒 Food prices are expected to rise after ministers refused to scrap a £2bn packaging tax, leaving shoppers to absorb the costs! The Sunday Times 📰

@likesretirement @SamaHoole @vjl2 Remember the 140 k is after tax so a farmer will need to earn double that. farmer dont get min wage, most just take drawings money to feed and heat the house thats it.

@SamaHoole @vjl2 He doesn’t have to have £140k It’s payable over 10 years. A luxury not granted to other businesses or private investors. He wouldn’t need to sell 60 acres. Hypothetical situations like this aren’t helpful I’m afraid

A farmer dies in April 2026. His son inherits the farm. The farm has been in the family since 1847. The farm consists of: 300 acres of grazing pasture, a farmhouse built in 1892, a barn, a milking parlour, two tractors of varying ages, a Land Rover that runs about 70% of the time, and a herd of 180 Hereford-cross cattle. On paper, the farm is worth approximately £3.2 million. This is because land near him has been bought recently by a London hedge fund looking for carbon credits, which has dragged the comparable value of every field within forty miles upward to a number nobody local can justify. In cash, the farm produces a profit of about £28,000 a year in a good year. In a bad year it loses money. The son also works as a fencing contractor three days a week to keep the operation viable. The inheritance tax bill on a £3.2 million estate, even at the reduced 20% rate, comes to approximately £140,000 after the increased threshold is applied. The son does not have £140,000. The son has never had £140,000. The son has £4,200 in his current account and an overdraft. The son sells 60 acres to a developer to pay the tax. The developer puts solar panels on the 60 acres. The remaining herd cannot be sustained on the reduced land. The herd is sold. The barn becomes a holiday let. A different family eats Brazilian beef this Christmas without knowing why the price went up. The Treasury collects £140,000. The land never produces British food again.

@bswud the interesting thing about crossrail is it fast east west route, but if you look at interchanges it has very poor connections to north south tubes other than thames link. connection at oxford circus would have over wellmed the the station and tube lines

The incredible power of crossrailing means that we should be willing to build cheaper MVP crossrails that get built, rather than trying for theoretical optimality but spending decades piling up the money. British cities have the most Crossrail-friendly rail networks in the world. Manchester could have transport on par with Munich for the price of a 1.5km tunnel, one wholly new station, two upgrades, and some electrification and signalling fixes. At the per-mile cost of the Elizabeth Line, that would cost only around £2 billion. Birmingham, Glasgow, and arguably Leeds face similar (though not quite so perfect) setups. London has at least eight cases, and some could be 10x shorter than the Elizabeth Line, without any of the overbuilding proposed with Crossrail 2.

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This is not the first time I’ve heard this view.

@FinanceTiger it was right to say build baby build, yes it will be the babies of today who will be building! Until then you would be seeing any new homes in london?

🏡 Shocking but not surprising. DM 🗞️

20% VAT for education and SEND support. 5% VAT for rollercoasters.

It Free no vat reduction needed The sun is coming out for the reopening of the Christchurch Meadows paddling pool this Saturday (23 May). scontent.fltn1-1.fna.fbcdn.net/v/t39.30808-6/…

@PolitlcsUK Fixed it 😂

@Eastreadingcom And this change will be so convenient too. No need to change the school run and as it requires no uniform savings there too.

When VAT was cut on tampons and ebooks, prices didn’t fall - the suppliers kept the benefit. Unclear why this will be different.