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Come down Souf mate 😂 I’ll even get you to change football teams 🤣

The sun always shines down south matey 😂

Well forgive your buyers remorse Ant 😉

Taka, Steinbecking, DCB, Nomlungu, Darth etc just can’t admit they were wrong 😂

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She’ll be coming back for more. Of that there can be no doubt. Those with a private sector pension are in her crosshairs.

Who voted for this lot of charlatans ? Not me….

Priceless you are DCB. If there was a prize for infantile posts you’d be like a boxer that never lost a fight…..

Identifying as a leftie now are we Darth ? 😂 Nice to see you come out at last.

Nice one Asperger. I’ll have a look at who didn’t honour their pledge last year.

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3.5% whilst inflation is reducing elsewhere in the world.

Who voted for these idiots ? Not me……

Nailed on hold here. Should never have been reduced last month with inflation on the rise.

“Ed Miliband has defeated an attempt by Rachel Reeves to raid one of his key net zero programs in next week’s spending review.

The Treasury has for months been considering cuts to the £13.2 billion warm homes plan, which aims to insulate properties and make them more energy efficient.

But Mr Miliband, the Energy Security Secretary, and Ms Reeves, the Chancellor, are understood to have reached an agreement in the past few days after fraught negotiations and the scheme will remain largely unaffected.

The agreement is a boost for net zero supporters in government, chief among them Mr Miliband, who have warned against scaling back green plans.

It will also likely be regarded as a sign of the Chancellor’s waning influence as Downing Street seeks to placate backbenchers unhappy over spending cuts.

The decision is expected to please the Left wing of the party, which is threatening to rebel against Sir Keir Starmer’s plans to make cuts to welfare and has been emboldened by a memo sent to Ms Reeves by Angela Rayner, the Deputy Prime Minister, demanding tax rises.

However, it could complicate attempts, spearheaded by Number 10, to counter Nigel Farage’s Reform, which is surging in support on a net zero sceptic platform and could outperform Labour in a Scottish by-election seat on Thursday.”

Rachel’s bad enough, but Red Ed and Rayner are worse. Gawd help us all.

A load of waffle coming to try and outflank Reform. Going to get my £268k tax free out of my pension like you TFE as I don’t trust this lot not to target it in October.

I had an add up and have won £1,850 in the last 12 months. A 3.7% return. I guess it’s the lure of the big one that keeps us interested still. Returns are tax free I guess so this miserable, useless government can’t get its hands on prizes but that could change.

How apt that you quote from the Motley Fool DCB 🤡

“Rachel Reeves has been urged to increase taxes and cut public spending as Britain’s growth was downgraded amid rising prices. The Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD) said “momentum is weakening” in the economy, as they told the Chancellor that efforts to cut Government borrowing must be “stepped up”.

It poses a critical challenge to Ms Reeves as she must contend with growing demands for further big increases to public sector pay, the need for more defence spending and the Prime Minister’s about-turns on efforts to control benefits spending.

Britain’s economy is set to grow by 1.3pc this year, the OECD said, down from the 1.4pc it predicted in March.

GDP growth will slow further to 1pc in 2026, also below its prior projection of a 1.2pc expansion.”

Well there’s a surprise 🙄

Yup, Labour and in particular that p r a t Milinand are hell bent on exterminating our oil and gas industry completely. Meanwhile we continue to buy in US and Qatar fracked LNG.

You couldn’t make it up. Who voted for these morons ? Not me……

1 x £50 🙄

“Australia’s plan to double thousands of pension tax bills could be adopted in Britain, experts fear.

Under new rules put forward by Australia’s government, 80,000 savers would be forced to start handing a third of their investment returns to the tax office.

When approached, the UK Government refused to rule out bringing the policy to Britain – which would add to a series of pension raids on farmers, business owners and grieving families.

Martin Willis, of consultancy Barnett Waddingham, said it would provide the Government with quick access to revenue, while Standard Life’s Mike Ambery said all options were “on the table”.

The move could be seen as a replacement for the abolished lifetime allowance. The tax charge on large pensions was removed by previous chancellor Jeremy Hunt, but Deputy Prime Minister Angela Rayner called for it to be reintroduced in a memo leaked last week.

Australian pension savers must pay 15pc tax on any pension investment returns once their pot exceeds $3m (£1.4m), but the country’s Labor Government – led by prime minister Anthony Albanese – is now aiming to double the rate to 30pc.

It would require people to pay even higher amounts of tax on ‘paper returns’, where they have to physically pay a bill for investment gains they have not received in cash. Any losses are offset against future years, but previous payments are not refunded.”

Labour are determined to steal from anyone with assets. There will be no one left to tax when the country empties. They’re just too stupid to see it.

“Manufacturing activity declined in Britain for the eighth month in a row amid global trade tensions, a closely watched survey showed. Rob Dobson, director at S&P Global Market Intelligence, said: “May PMI data indicate that UK manufacturing faces

major challenges, including turbulent market conditions, trade uncertainties, low client confidence and rising tax-related wage costs.

“Downturns in output, new orders and new export business have continued, and business optimism has stayed subdued by the historical standards of the survey.

“Smaller manufacturers are experiencing the sharpest pinch, registering the steepest retrenchments in output and demand and seeing their confidence slump to a near record low.

“Job losses are also rising across manufacturing, with the rate of decline in employment gathering pace.”

Who voted for these muppets ? Not me…….