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Janet Mobbs retweeted
This government is guilty of grotesque gaslighting and traitorous contempt for the public it's supposed to serve.
It's not Russia that poses a threat to our prosperity and security; it's our proxy-war-funding politicians who'd rather see our pensioners, the disabled and our NHS suffer so as to feed their lust for war.
Janet Mobbs retweeted
1/ This was a vibes Budget. Built to feel bigger and better than it is.
The headline: £100 off energy bills for 20 million homes, and an end to the standing charge on gas.
The reality: the £100 is a one-off. The standing charge isn’t scrapped, it’s moved onto what you pay per unit. Two thirds of homes save around £45 a year. The rest pay more.
Meanwhile bills went up 13% in July and another 4% in October. They’re forecast to rise a further 16% in January, to nearly £2,000.
That January rise alone is around £276. The help is £100, once.
Vibes, not relief.
Janet Mobbs retweeted
🚨 THE ALARM BELLS ARE RINGING!
So @andyburnham approved Jackdaw while insisting Labour remains committed to the green transition.
The Budget announces cuts to energy bills through reduced levies and policy costs, presenting them as major savings.
But already confirned energy price hikes in January will swallow those savings entirely, and then some.
Your bills will still go UP!
But buried in the Budget is something far more concerning. And @dantomlinsonmp, for some reason, has been stupid enough to highlight this.
@UKLabour has announced that it will only award new contracts for renewable energy projects, such as wind and solar farms, if it's satisfied they'll reduce electricity bills.
Sounds reasonable?
But here's the problem.
After years of underinvestment in Britain's electricity grid, the government is now introducing conditions that could delay or restrict the very renewable projects we desperately need to accelerate.
Meanwhile, new fossil fuel projects continue to get the green light without having to demonstrate that they'll reduce household energy bills.
And that's before we even consider the enormous long-term environmental, economic and human costs of continued fossil fuel dependence.
Where in Labour's calculations are the costs of climate breakdown, environmental destruction and the devastating consequences for future generations?
Because from the way these decisions are being presented, it's far from clear they're being given anything like the consideration they deserve.
The government itself acknowledges that renewables are essential to escaping volatile gas prices, achieving energy security and tackling climate change.
Yet its own policies seem designed to slow that transition.
If Labour is genuinely committed to the green transition, why is it placing new conditions on renewable energy while continuing to approve fossil fuel expansion?
And why do the enormous environmental, economic and human costs of climate breakdown appear to carry so little weight in these decisions?
We should be accelerating the transition away from fossil fuels, not finding new reasons to delay it.
@ZackPolanski @TheGreenParty
#ClimateCrisis #Budget2026
This Budget is the start of a new energy pathway that the 10 Year Plan will build on. The priority is to bring energy costs down to help British business to compete, and British households to cope. And cheaper electricity will boost electrification, increasing our energy security and helping to decarbonise the whole economy.
What does this mean? First, it means a focus on levies and policy costs on bills. The Conservatives added £100 to everyone's bill via levies in their last decade in power. Labour has cut £150 from bill costs already. But today, John Healey has drawn a line in the sand, with the announcement that we will add no new costs to energy bills, with a comprehensive cost control framework to follow at the spending review. The Chancellor is also junking plans, first set out by the Tories, to add on up to around £10 a year on bills to pay for hydrogen projects.
Second, it means taking account of the interaction between the pace of grid build-out and the pace at which renewables are added to the grid. The NAO have said that investment in expanding the transmission network declined in real terms between 2016 and 2020, just when it was clear that more intermittent power meant we would need more capacity. It is now forecast to rise to over £10bn a year. But with growing constraint and distribution costs, it's right that the system costs of all new power are considered. That is why we will only procure clean power through AR8 (the next auction round) if we are confident it will lower bills. And we will reform the contract for difference by AR9 to support building the lowest cost system, fixing market distortions and siting assets in the right place.
The evidence is clear, clean power is an essential part of the route to cheap power, and the overall approach of seeking to get ourselves off the gas-price rollercoaster to the right one. Gas is setting the electricity price less and less every year. If it wasn't for adding renewables to the grid in recent years then the current Iran price shock would have been worse for families and businesses. The Conservatives and Reform's ideological anti-renewables approach is the wrong one and fails in the face of evidence on how to protect bill payers from shocks and the need to make ourselves less reliant on foreign dictators. We'll take a pragmatic approach to get bills down.
Getting electricity prices down, ensuring new clean power does not run ahead of the grid, is also the credible route to reaching our net zero goals. The decarbonisation that we want to enable in our homes, on our roads and in our businesses, is six times larger than that still to be achieved from getting to a clean grid. Unless we make electricity cheaper relative to other energy sources, we will struggle to increase adoption of EV and heat pumps.
Janet Mobbs retweeted
£10 BILLION for Ukraine. £100 towards heating.
That is the contrast at the heart of Britain's 2026 Budget.
But the real story goes much deeper.
While millions of British households struggle with energy bills, the Government is turning defence spending into an industrial strategy.
And there is something the public deserves to know: who actually benefits from the billions flowing through Britain's defence contracts?
The figures tell a very different story from the one ministers are selling.
The Heartlands Tribune follows the money
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heartlandstribune.com/budget…
#budget
Janet Mobbs retweeted
We have to start talking about a different kind of society, because every single penny that’s going on defence, that’s killing people around the world, is impoverishing us here at home.
Our full response to today's Budget [1/2]
Janet Mobbs retweeted
As ever, war is a racket.
When you read the small print of Healey's £10.5 billion for Ukraine, less than 5% goes to air defences this winter.
The rest locks Ukraine into longer term dependency, including £3 billion that conveniently will boost the profits of the arms industry.
Janet Mobbs retweeted
Two totally unrelated facts:
1. Reform receives £72m from crypto bosses
2. Farage promises to cut capital gains tax on crypto from 24% to 10%
cryptonews.com/news/farage-p…
Remind me, how much will my bills go up with the January price cap comes into effect?
Janet Mobbs retweeted
Proud to support a Budget that will give more breathing space for residents in Lewisham West & East Dulwich 🌹
• £100 Energy Payment for 38,000 eligible Band A–D properties
• Extending the VAT cut on electricity bills
• Cutting tariffs on over 100 supermarket products
Janet Mobbs retweeted
What about the immediate needs of working class people in the UK? When will you meet our needs? If you can't, then get out of the way, you're part of the problem
Vote Green
Janet Mobbs retweeted
The government has announced a further £10 billion in support for Ukraine.
In the same Budget speech, Chancellor John Healey warned of “tough fiscal constraints” at home.
gov.uk/government/news/uk-bo…
Janet Mobbs retweeted
So the announcement from Treasury this morning designed to get good headlines was scandalously misleading as it did not mention a commencement date. Healey reveals it will be April 2030 which is after the next general election!
Janet Mobbs retweeted
#BankAccounts
#DWP
The DWP has made the first use of its powers to force banks to run checks of claimants’ accounts as part of what it bills as a “crackdown” that will be “saving taxpayers £1.2 billion by 2030/31.”
benefitsandwork.co.uk/news/f…
Janet Mobbs retweeted
Two years ago, tens of thousands of anti-Zionist Jews packed Barclays Center to honor our Grand Rabbi, Rav Yoel Teitlebaum.
We will never compromise the Torah or stop opposing Zionism.
Mainstream media ignores the tens of thousands of anti-Zionist Jews in America.
This is the Satmar community — loyal to Torah and fighting Zionism since its inception.
Source @authenttorahjew @TorahJudaism
Janet Mobbs retweeted
Write to your MP TODAY. Join @CHinchliffMP and demand that proposed England water bill hikes are blocked.
💩They made the mess - why should we pay to clear it up?
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Janet Mobbs retweeted
WATCH 🚨
We asked American Orthodox Jew if Netanyahu represents them?
here’s what they had to say:
“Judaism forbids Zionism.
Our grandparents lived in peace with their Arab neighbours before Zionists destroyed it for atheistic nationalism.
Netanyahu, you do NOT represent us”
Janet Mobbs retweeted
"Government insiders have told the Guardian the project can be approved on a strict reading of Britain’s climate obligations, in part because once the oil is exported, the emissions from burning it no longer count against domestic targets. “Miatta has more latitude than you might think,” said one."
This is insanity masquerading as creative accounting.
EXCL: The giant Rosebank oilfield can be approved without breaching the UK’s emission targets, according to government insiders, in a boost to those in the cabinet who are pushing for it to be given the go-ahead.
Sources also say the Treasury has already accounted for billions of pounds’ worth of tax revenue from Rosebank and so would be faced with a shortfall should it be rejected.
By @kiranstacey & me
theguardian.com/environment/…
Janet Mobbs retweeted
🔴 BUDGET DAY: THE REAL COST OF LIVING IN BRITAIN
Westminster will spend today drowning the country in billions, borrowing forecasts, and hollow boasts about growth.
None of it matters at the kitchen table.
For millions of ordinary people, the question is brutally simple: when does life become affordable again?
The political class is already congratulating itself because inflation is falling. It is a confidence trick played on people who have to check their bank balance before buying groceries. A slower rate of inflation does not mean prices are coming down. It means the mugging has merely slowed to a steady bleed.
The damage done since 2021 is permanent, baked into the baseline of daily existence. Food prices are up nearly 39 percent. Private rents have climbed 35 percent. Water bills have surged by nearly 57 percent, and household gas and electricity sit 58 percent higher than they were three winters ago. Add higher mortgage rates, relentless council tax hikes, and extortionate insurance, and the margin for error in ordinary households has ceased to exist.
The Treasury treats these figures as abstract digits on a spreadsheet. In reality, they represent skipped meals, unheated rooms, and the quiet, grinding humiliation of working full-time only to fall further behind.
Westminster has not solved the crisis. It has simply declared the robbery complete and told us to accept the loss.
Until wages recover what has been systematically stripped out of them, every boast from the Chancellor is just white noise in an empty wallet.
Burnham is selling the promise of change while his government continues to defend so much of the political and economic establishment that desperately needs changing.
Prediction... Burnham will call an early general election this week.
He's a populist, and he knows the political opportunity in front of him.
Reform are in retreat, the Tories haven't yet recovered, and the Greens are caught up in false accusations of antisemitism from Burnham and the Board of Deputies.
But there's something much bigger at play here.
Burnham is selling the promise of change while his government continues to defend so much of the political and economic establishment that desperately needs changing.
Just look at the last week. Jackdaw approved, the antisemitism in schools report endorsed, and now a few encouraging words about Europe have people falling over themselves to praise him.
It's political theatre, and it's working.
But the longer he governs, the harder it becomes to maintain the impression that change is already here all we've heard so far is talk.
So why not cash in on the honeymoon, and play the oldest trick in politics.
Sell the promise of change, secure the power to deliver it, then spend the next five years explaining why meaningful change isn't possible.
