Joel Deakin

"Ofgem should tell it straight: electricity prices are set to stay high for years" Not sure how the Grauniad let this one slip through, but here's a great explanation of why (on current policies) the UK is set to remain a very high-cost energy economy. theguardian.com/business/nils-…

🚨 Rachel Reeves’ Great British Summer Savings! 🚨 “Little joys with the kids just got cheaper!” 💸 Family of 4 (teens 13 & 15) does the full tour: 🎬 Cinema trip → save a whopping £4.50 🧸 Soft play session → pocket £3.50 🏛️ Museum day out → bag £8.80 TOTAL SAVINGS THIS SUMMER: £16.80 🎉 Even if you can totally afford to drag the kids to all three… you’ll be £16.80 richer! …until you fill the car with petrol at 159p a litre (extra £20–25 just to get there) and the weekly food shop gets slapped with the usual extra costs & stealth taxes. Net result: £0.00 saved. Wallet still empty. Kids still demanding ice cream. 😂 Brilliant stuff, Chancellor. Best. Summer. Ever. #GreatBritishSummerSavings #VATCut #CostOfLivingCrisis #ThanksRach

I don't think he ever thought it would come true...

Schrödinger's teenager: too immature for Twitter but informed enough to vote. Unless they vote Green.

If would be really fitting of 2026 if Tehran ends labelling a toll on the Strait of Hormuz as an “environmental fee.” But, just for fun, Iran should take the plunge and call it a “carbon tax.”

What’s the point saving your money anymore? First Reeves wants you to move your savings to Isas now she may have decided “I’ll tax that too”. This government is determined to make the country go bankrupt. Completely incompetent. This is why young people are fleeing.

The idea going the rounds that this is somehow a right wing neo-liberal government rather flies in the face of the evidence. Me in @thetimes

#HEX rigged up & re-entering Inez #1 🇺🇸 🔹Targeting additional production from Souris River interval 🔹Inez #1 represents meaningful addition to @HelixExp's growing #Helium production 🔹Hydrogen-bearing interval offers additional upside opportunity RNS: irtools.co.uk/83/story/067e0…

RT @TheSecretAcct: Frozen stealth taxes.

It just all gets weirder by the day. Cap food prices to reduce food inflation.. no? Ok, well here’s a tax that will definitely help right now with cost of living. But don’t worry you can go to Legoland with a government discount code.

🚨🇬🇧 BREAKING: its been revealed that Andy Burnham snapped up an ex council flat in Kennington for just £215,000 in 2005 while serving as an MP. He then happily billed taxpayers for the mortgage interest payments because the rules let him get away with it. That same flat is now worth 480000 to 500000 pounds and he rents it out while insisting the income barely covers his costs and he makes no profit. Yet this is the same man demanding rent freezes council housing takeovers and lower rents for ordinary people. Pure hypocrisy from a classic Westminster grifter feathering his own nest on the back of the system he loves to lecture everyone else about.

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.

So basically @AndyBurnhamGM and @wesstreeting are now competing over which can suggest the most new UK taxes. This after Labour has ‘already’ increased taxes by £80billion on top of the Tories’ legacy of the highest tax burden since WW2. Other than that, nothing to see here.

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.

@DouglasCarswell @bonker99

Under taxed? Highest tax burden since 1957

@MrHappened @HelixExp @that_stocks_guy Can’t disagree however I believe the risk/reward is exceptional - I’m invested for the long term as long as the company continue to deliver.

@JMHDeakin @HelixExp @that_stocks_guy Good luck. Unlikely to see any movement up in the next 2-3 months. The #Hex share price has history of doing nothing for long periods. One to watch but not sure you’ll see much action here for a while.

Took a few more #HEX @HelixExp - 1/3 of the worlds helium supply is still cut off and they have 100% offtake at "current prevailing spot market rates". @that_stocks_guy has also written an excellent article on yesterday's update - substack.com/home/post/p-19…

This should fix the UK's billionaire overpopulation problem

Ok this made me lol

UK public borrowing +25% YoY in April, and highest figure for the month since the pandemic...can't wait to see how that's spun as a positive...

Britain is at peak tax … so the government has decided to tax us MORE! a £ 1 BILLION extra tax grab on family holidays! because HOW DARE You have a holiday!… 20% VAT charged on airport charges, to use their runways and terminals. They hate you 🔥