@ChrisMayLA6
Given that they're screwing everyone on Basic and Higher rate by not increasing them (again!), why not introduce a "Rich bastard" rate where everyone on, say, £175k+ a year has a 60% rate? And make sure to include bonuses and stock options with that.

Sure, it would be unpopular with the actual rich bastards that fund politicians, but does anyone know how much that would rake in, compared to letting inflation push legions of people from Basic into Higher rate?

#UKPol #Budget2025

"A mileage-based charge for electric and plug-in hybrid car drivers from 2028 and a short-term freeze in fuel duty are among the key changes announced in the Autumn Budget 2025"

So am I right in thinking that this #budget has penalised electric cars and benefited fossil fuel vehicles?

That seems... Highly counter-productive.

#Budget2025
#ClimateEmergency

https://www.rac.co.uk/drive/news/motoring-news/autumn-budget-2025/

The UK Cyber Security and Resilience Bill is also a chance to assess and reduce the UK’s dependence on large US corporations for vital government infrastructure.

Other countries like France and the Netherlands are already debating how to do this, such as through open source software.

As we saw with the AWS outage, we need digital sovereignty to keep the UK economy switched on.

https://www.openrightsgroup.org/press-releases/org-response-to-cyber-security-bill/

#Budget2025 #budget #UKbudget #reeves #cybersecurity #ukpolitics #ukpol #digitalsovereignty

The UK government must take cybersecurity seriously to get growth.

Key to this is strong encryption for all.

They must put guarantees in the UK Cyber Security and Resilience Bill and quit trying to force a backdoor into secure systems like they did with Apple.

Otherwise we'll be open to more attacks.

#Budget2025 #budget #UKbudget #reeves #dataprotection #cybersecurity #data #ukpolitics #ukpol #e2ee #encryption

"A mileage-based charge for electric and plug-in hybrid car drivers from 2028 and a short-term freeze in fuel duty are among the key changes announced in the Autumn Budget 2025"

So am I right in thinking that this #budget has penalised electric cars and benefited fossil fuel vehicles?

That seems... Highly counter-productive.

#Budget2025
#ClimateEmergency

https://www.rac.co.uk/drive/news/motoring-news/autumn-budget-2025/

@ChrisMayLA6
Given that they're screwing everyone on Basic and Higher rate by not increasing them (again!), why not introduce a "Rich bastard" rate where everyone on, say, £175k+ a year has a 60% rate? And make sure to include bonuses and stock options with that.

Sure, it would be unpopular with the actual rich bastards that fund politicians, but does anyone know how much that would rake in, compared to letting inflation push legions of people from Basic into Higher rate?

#UKPol #Budget2025

Hmm, apparently the amount that you can put in a cash ISA is going down, but the amount you can put in a stocks and shares ISA is remaining constant.

Here's the fun thing: stocks and shares ISAs are allowed to pay interest on cash deposits (and most do).

I foresee an increase in the number of 'stocks and shares' ISAs that allow trading a very restrictive set of shares and pay about the same interest as a cash ISA.

Or possibly not. You can move money between ISAs, so I don't currently see a reason that you can't pay £20K into a stocks and shares ISA and then immediately move the money to a cash ISA, unless there's some small print that hasn't yet been announced.

#ukpol #budget2025

The UK Cyber Security and Resilience Bill is also a chance to assess and reduce the UK’s dependence on large US corporations for vital government infrastructure.

Other countries like France and the Netherlands are already debating how to do this, such as through open source software.

As we saw with the AWS outage, we need digital sovereignty to keep the UK economy switched on.

https://www.openrightsgroup.org/press-releases/org-response-to-cyber-security-bill/

#Budget2025 #budget #UKbudget #reeves #cybersecurity #ukpolitics #ukpol #digitalsovereignty

The UK government must take cybersecurity seriously to get growth.

Key to this is strong encryption for all.

They must put guarantees in the UK Cyber Security and Resilience Bill and quit trying to force a backdoor into secure systems like they did with Apple.

Otherwise we'll be open to more attacks.

#Budget2025 #budget #UKbudget #reeves #dataprotection #cybersecurity #data #ukpolitics #ukpol #e2ee #encryption

Seeing safeguards over our data as barriers to growth is folly.

The UK's new Data Act has put into question the adequacy agreement with the EU.

Losing it would impose £1-1.6 billion in legal and compliance costs on UK businesses alone, as well as threaten EU-UK trade agreements and the Windsor Framework.

https://www.openrightsgroup.org/press-releases/uk-privacy-erosion-sparks-eu-civil-society-call-to-review-adequacy-data-deal/

#Budget2025 #budget #UKbudget #reeves #dataprotection #cybersecurity #data #ukpolitics #ukpol #eu

What’s data protection law got to do with the UK budget?

Information security requirements contained within are key to growth.

Just look at how the Jaguar Land Rover cyber attack hurt the UK economy.

That’s why the data watchdog must start enforcing these rules properly.

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/cx2y1z4z70jo

#Budget2025 #budget #UKbudget #reeves #dataprotection #cybersecurity #data #ukpolitics #ukpol

“When climate disasters decimate the lives of millions, when we already have the solutions, this will never, ever be forgiven.”

https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2025/nov/10/it-will-never-be-forgiven-un-climate-chief-warns-world-to-act-or-face-disaster

#ClimateCrisis #Canada #CDNPoli #Budget2025

“Not one single nation among you can afford this, as climate disasters rip double digits off GDP (...). To falter whilst mega droughts wreck national harvests, sending food prices soaring, makes zero sense, economically and politically“

#ClimateCrisis #Canada #CDNPoli #Budget2025

“When climate disasters decimate the lives of millions, when we already have the solutions, this will never, ever be forgiven.”

https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2025/nov/10/it-will-never-be-forgiven-un-climate-chief-warns-world-to-act-or-face-disaster

#ClimateCrisis #Canada #CDNPoli #Budget2025

Oh lol they talk more about the removal of the "luxury tax" (15) on private jets and boats than climate change

#budget2025

#budget2025

Zero : "French"
"Francophone"
"linguistic (services or else)"

2: "minority"

11: "climate change" (if you remove the 9 mentions of the department)

16: LNG

(yes they mention LNG more often than climate change)

34: oil

54: carbon capture

That's for 493 pages.