Matt S

Politically homeless

[Andrew Neil @afneil]

Thanks to policies you zealously pursue we already have the highest industrial energy costs and second highest household costs in the world. You’re inflicting working people with extra financial burden and loss of well-paid jobs.
So don’t dare talk about skyrocketing bills.
Your solar panels are paving over good farmland and your onshore windmills are already a blight on the landscape.
There are nothing like hundreds of thousands of clean energy jobs. It’s a myth you perpetuate. Unemployment is rising.
There is no energy security when you increase dependence on intermittent renewables, which is why you’re having to build new gas plants as back up and increase imported electricity (which hardly adds to our energy security).
Thank you for your attention to this matter.

[Rupert Lowe MP @RupertLowe10]

The next U-turn simply HAS to be business rates.

[Matt S @MattAS1989]

Different policies lead to different outcomes. The UK is unfortunately realising that Labour policies are continuing economic stagnation

[James Price @jamespriceglos]

Economic growth Q3 2025:

🇺🇸 4.3%

🇪🇺 0.4%

🇬🇧 0.1%

Growth is possible. In fact, it is essential.

@RachelReevesMP MUST resign.

[Colin Brazier @ColinBrazierTV]

I would very much like Rachel Reeves to stop "asking" taxpayers for "a bit more".
"ASKING" suggests we have an option to decline her invitation to surrender more of our money.
Unless we want to be prosecuted by the HMRC, we have no such option. Her language is pure sophistry.

[Matt S @MattAS1989]

Looking forward to the Labour wipeout at the next general election https://t.co/wgHqUqAVJR

[Matt Goodwin @GoodwinMJ]

To take home the same amount as a three-child family with combined benefits, a worker would now require a salary of around £71,000 before tax or £90,000 to match a family with 5 kids

-centre social justice

[Matt S @MattAS1989]

People need to keep being reminded of this - Labour have lied to get elected and have put taxes up to fund welfare increases

[Rachel Reeves @RachelReevesMP]

The Prime Minister lied. Labour will not be raising taxes on working people.

[The Telegraph @Telegraph]

🔴 Working families will be £18,000 worse off than jobless parents claiming benefits following Rachel Reeves’s abolition of the two-child cap in the Budget, an analysis has found

Read the full report here 👇
https://t.co/i0dIe2KWz7

[Matt S @MattAS1989]

Rachel Reeves is hopelessly out of her depth

[Matt S @MattAS1989]

@JoStevensLabour Thieving Labour Party at it again, taking money from the hard working middle class and handing it out to the lazy on the dole. Same old Labour!

[Tom Harwood @tomhfh]

"Lifting children out of poverty" by ensuring benefit claimants can take home a salary equivalent to about £120k.

£120k a year. On benefits.

It a sick joke.

[Matt S @MattAS1989]

Labour’s budget is an assault on private sector employees

https://t.co/Gh8g3cNUYL

[Matt S @MattAS1989]

This is genuinely shocking

[Matt Gubba @MattGubba]

Business rates are about to devastate the UK hospitality sector in 2026.

Take The Squirrels Inn in Northampton: its rateable value jumps from £22k to £86k in one go. Under the current 40% hospitality relief, that pub pays roughly £6.5k a year.

From 2026, the bill rises towards £33k+, a near 400% increase for a village pub just to exist.

The government’s own examples show a “typical” pub facing a 66% rates hike once the 40% relief is cut and new multipliers apply.

That’s the mild end.

Analysts have found big-city hotels with rateable values rising 385%. Once those lose relief and hit the new high-value “super multiplier”, a hotel paying £150k today could face £1.1 million in 2026; a 600%+ increase on one P&L line.

Add wage rises, higher alcohol duty and soaring energy costs, and this isn’t reform; it’s a demolition charge under pubs, bars and hotels.

The result:

- More boarded-up locals
- Fewer independents, more corporate chains
- Higher prices for every pint, meal and room
- Owners quietly closing or moving capital abroad

If the government wants thriving high streets, tourism and night-time economies, it cannot keep treating hospitality like a bottomless cash machine.

You don’t save British pubs by taxing them to death.

[Andrew Neil @afneil]

This is getting quite serious for the Chancellor.
In the run up to the Budget we were told that the OBR’s downgrading of productivity would create a multi-billon black hole. The government started preparing public opinion for a manifesto-breaking rise in income tax.
We were not told that rising wages and inflation meant more tax revenues to offset the productivity downgrade. But Rachel Reeves was.
By October 31 the OBR told Reeves that she was actually sitting on a £4.2 billion surplus. Yet four days later she gave a press conference in Downing Street at which she suggested that the watchdog’s forecasts were worse than expected and made the case for tax rises.
“What I want people to understand ahead of the budget, is the circumstances we face,” she said. “I could … sweep those challenges under the carpet. I am being honest with people.”
In fact, as we now learn, she was being the opposite of honest. She might not survive this.

[Carl Benjamin 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 @Sargon_of_Akkad]

It's hard to imagine a more thorough assault on English social life than in one fell swoop to bankrupt every pub in the land.

[Adam Brooks AKA EssexPR 🇬🇧 @EssexPR]

THE CHANCELLOR LIED IN PARLIAMENT

Across the board, Business rates for pubs are going up on average by 35% from April 2026.

This will heap further misery on the industry. Some pubs rates have tripled or more.

[Matt S @MattAS1989]

Of all the attacks on the middle class, this was the worst.

https://t.co/OyChhLDPC9

[Matt S @MattAS1989]

Sickening

[Robert Peston @Peston]

Over the next five years, the OBR is forecasting that welfare spending will rise by £73.2bn to £406.2bn.

[(((Dan Hodges))) @DPJHodges]

Political and economic insanity

[Matt S @MattAS1989]

@UKLabour They are rapidly realising they will be worse off and socialism is bad for the economy.