UK to appeal against tax ruling cutting VAT on public electric car chargers to 5% HMRC confirms it will fight London tax tribunal’s finding that it has been overcharging for years under the law

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UK to appeal against tax ruling cutting VAT on public electric car chargers to 5%

So our Government wants to continue overcharging EV drivers whose only option is the public network?

Not a good look and no way to encourage uptake of EVs

#NotZero

Electricity generators threatened with higher windfall taxes in bid to ensure stable prices Move marks government’s most radical attempt to weaken impact of soaring wholesale gas prices on electricity costs

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“Part of the government’s plan to ‘delink the price of electricity from the price of gas’”

It’s taken far too long to get to this point

Our ridiculously high electricity costs are holding us back as a Nation and hobbling #NetZero ambitions

Petition: Hold a referendum to bring the water industry into public ownership Hold a binding national referendum on whether the water industry should be returned to public ownership. Water is a basic human necessity; we believe our privatised system has failed, so the public sh...

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If, like me, you feel that we should #RenationaliseWater and kick out the Robber Barons that have fleeced us while allowing systems to rot, I suggest you sign and share this petition!

Daily Mail’s Brexit poll spectacularly backfires Not what the Mail expected...

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“The Daily Mail was so embarrassed by the 84% vote for rejoin they reset the horizontal axis to make 84% look like 50%. Pathetic.”

Daily Mail’s Brexit poll spectacularly backfires Not what the Mail expected...

A poll on Brexit carried out by the right-wing Daily Mail has gone spectacularly wrong, after it gave the paper the opposite result of what it wanted.
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Should you wish to return any ReFUK election material. Return address. Free post. They pay.

#PalantirOut

Voters want a Brexit U-turn – Starmer needs be bolder, says UK’s top pollster Labour should end its ‘strategy of silence’ on Europe if it wants to revive its fortunes, Sir John Curtice said

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“One way of restoring his fortunes could be to shift to a more aggressive position on getting closer to the EU”

Starmer could certainly do with something positive and attention-grabbing to say right now!

#Rejoin

Is it that 'risky' given recent polling?
Is the 'crabwise' approach too timid and slow?
Why not just apply to #RejoinEU now?

Labour’s ‘crabwise’ approach to closer EU ties must address damage of Brexit | Heather Stewart The damage to the economy dwarfs the upsides from the various non-EU trade deals the UK has struck since 2016

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Labour’s ‘crabwise’ approach to closer EU ties must address damage of #Brexit

“Thinking the unthinkable, and making the risky political argument for a return of free movement”

Risk can mean reward

#Rejoin

Trump’s presidency is what evil looks like: absurd, frightening, cruel | Nesrine Malik Commentators have said that the US president’s clownishness and lack of ideology somehow make him less dangerous. They’re wrong, says Guardian columnist Nesrine Malik

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“It’s hard for the human brain to encounter evil in ludicrous form, and still recognise it as such. That’s how it creeps up on you”

The insider trading suspicions looming over Trump's presidency The BBC has found a pattern of spikes in trades ahead of public announcements by the US president.

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Crime Syndicates can have several ways of making money for themselves, it seems…

NEW: Richard Tice failed to pay almost £100,000 in corporation tax, benefiting his investment company which made large donations to Reform UK.

First time Reform's deputy leader's tax affairs can be directly linked to finances of Nigel Farage's party.

Two more Reform local election candidates accused of offensive posts Labour calls on Nigel Farage to sack candidates and says his party’s checks ‘clearly not fit for purpose’

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Considering the ‘pool’ from which these people are drawn, frequent revelations like this are inevitable

Neofascism and racism lie at Reform’s heart, though Farage would have you believe otherwise

#NeverVoteReform

The Brexit delusion is dead – so now Keir Starmer doesn’t need to pretend any more | Rafael Behr To rebuild relations with Europe in a dangerous world, the prime minister needs to win big arguments, not hide behind outdated red lines, says Guardian columnist Rafael Behr

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“There is less to fear, and not much left to lose, for an unpopular prime minister by talking about #Brexit for what it is – not a deal to be revised or a condition to be managed but a tragic mistake to be corrected”

Time to make the case for #Rejoin

I think we’re there…

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What’s astonishing is the attraction #Rejoin has for a significant minority of Tory and Reform voters!

And the ‘closer’ option seems very attractive to them, also

What’s going on there?

More than half of Britons support rejoining EU 10 years on from Brexit vote Experts say Labour’s ‘halfway house’ approach risks losing support from progressives and ‘red wall’ voters

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I had guessed that at 10 years there would be a tipping point

The challenge now is to #BinBrexit and #Rejoin as quickly as possible, in the National Interest

No more half-measures, no more damaging ’Red Lines’

Push for EU membership to galvanise progressive support, report argues A new report by Best for Britain shows that a push for UK membership of the European Union would galvanise support among progressive voters. The report highlights that a pro-membership position offers...

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“It's plain to see little appetite exists for the halfway houses of a customs union or single market entry, relative to the resounding and deeply felt support for EU membership”

Starmer would be pushing against an open door if he were to go for #Rejoin

Keir Starmer is right to put Brexit in the bin Brexiteer complaints are wrongheaded and disheartening

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“Brexiteer complaints are wrongheaded and disheartening”

Countless opinion polls all point the same way, though diehards can’t bring themselves to acknowledge it - #BinBrexit

Reeves looking to break link between gas cost and electricity prices Chancellor wants to reduce impact of gas on market prices, as it almost always sets price of electricity in UK

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Reeves looking to break link between gas cost and electricity prices

This sounds technical, but it’s long overdue

That link sets the UK electricity price, keeping it the highest in Europe-it must change

How else to get people to adopt Heatpumps and EVs?

This is why Trump’s political insanity will be his downfall The US President's election-winning coalition is splintering

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“Candace Owens, a star of the Maga media ecosystem, complained on X: “He is a genocidal lunatic. Our Congress and military need to intervene. We are beyond madness.”

$30m an hour: big oil reaping huge war windfall from consumers, analysis finds Exclusive: Climate action blockers including Saudi Arabia, Russia and major fossil fuel firms set to make extra $234bn by end of 2026

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“Beth Walker, an energy policy expert at the E3G thinktank, said: “Governments should use taxes on windfall profits to accelerate the transition to green energy, rather than deepen dependence on fossil fuels.”

#TaxTheWindfall

Starmer should face Commons inquiry over Mandelson vetting, says Ed Davey Exclusive: Liberal Democrat leader calls for privileges committee to investigate whether PM misled parliament

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Starmer should face Commons inquiry over Mandelson vetting, says Ed Davey

If what Starmer is telling us is true, he should have no qualms about facing the Privileges Committee

Until that happens, this sordid affair will hang over him forever …

The UK is giving up on America. Now talk of a Brexit U-turn is growing louder Closter ties with Europe are the 'patriotic choice' Britain's Brexit chief said

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If this turns out fairly soon to be #Rejoin by another name, I, for one, would be happy

Because #BrexitBreaksBritain

Britain needs closer EU ties, PM says as UK prepares to adopt single market rules The prime minister told the Commons that the crisis caused by Donald Trump’s war with Iran has made the case for reversing key parts of Brexit

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Britain needs closer EU ties to undo harm of Trump’s war on Iran

Reversing ‘key parts’ of #Brexit through alignment is now thought to be a good thing, apparently

So much better to reverse the whole damned #BrexitShambles and help make those rules…

#Rejoin

Despite latest welcome 'betrayal', how Brexit is still blighting Scotland and the UK Anti-immigration sentiments are prompting much-needed overseas workers to think about leaving the UK

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“The harmful effects of anti-migrant sentiments are likely to blight this country for years to come”

#BrexitBreaksBritain

In both Hungary and Britain, the EU is back in fashion Editorial: In Budapest, the ousting of pro-Russia Viktor Orban is seismic – but Keir Starmer’s push for a closer relationship with the continent could be just as consequential

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“More and more people are coming to realise that so far from being the source of their grievances and a threat to their security, the EU, for all its flaws and pretensions, is in fact the best guarantor of their prosperity and their freedoms”

#Rejoin

Richard Tice: unanswered questions on £120k unpaid REIT tax Richard Tice says tax was paid. But did he pay the right amount? And did his offshore trust pay tax at all?

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Richard Tice: unanswered questions on £120k unpaid REIT tax

The bottom line here is that Tice aggressively avoids tax and his fiendishly complex tax arrangements have backfired very publicly, possibly as a result of incompetence

Not a good look…

Behold, another second coming. But this one is Donald Trump – WAY BETTER than that Jesus guy | Marina Hyde The Middle East on fire, a spat with the pope – and he posts himself as Potus Almighty. Will his disciples now see that their messiah has feet of clay, asks Guardian columnist Marina Hyde

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“Naturally, nobody deplores his own people as passionately as a populist, but even by those exacting historical standards Trump really does regard his supporters as a honking great throng of halfwits”