Simon

YIMBY Anglofuturist. International Relations and security enjoyer

[Looking for Growth @lfg_uk]

Britain is in an Energy Emergency.

But the Government is FAILING TO ACT. They have no plan, no idea what to do, and they’re leaving us exposed.

So today we’re launching The LFG Emergency Energy Bill to SAVE OUR INDUSTRIES and GET BILLS DOWN

Here’s how it would get bills down IMMEDIATELY:

1️⃣ SCRAP all levies on energy bills. These stealth taxes on the British people are unnecessarily hiking up their bills by hundreds of pounds.

2️⃣ REOPEN THE NORTH SEA, and directly deploy the tax revenue generated to GET BILLS DOWN.

3️⃣ Stop new CfD contracts and launch an investigation into the system that signed them off. Last year, billpayers paid £1.5 billion for big renewable corporations to THROW ENERGY AWAY. By 2030, it’ll be £8 billion. The existing settlement is a national scandal.

4️⃣ Scrap Clean Power 2030 targets. These needless constraints have pushed civil servants to procure wind at any cost – and at huge expense to the British people.

5️⃣ DITCH the duties of energy regulators, NESO and Ofgem, towards Net Zero goals, so their only focus is to MINIMISE ENERGY COSTS, subject to security of supply.

6️⃣ Hold auctions for connecting to the grid, and directly deploy the revenue generated to GET BILLS DOWN

Our Emergency Energy Bill has cross-party support. It is ready to PASS IMMEDIATELY. It does what governments for the past 20 years didn’t – it takes RADICAL ACTION to SAVE OUR INDUSTRIES and GET BILLS DOWN.

There’s no excuse. Last week, the US suspended access to some of the world’s leading frontier AI models. Britain is vulnerable - and our energy prices are strangling our national security. We cannot afford to be at the mercy of other countries or events beyond our control any longer.

The Government needs to GET BILLS DOWN NOW or explain why they’re still letting this emergency destroy our future.

Force Westminster to ACT. Send our Bill to your local MP and sign our letter to the Prime Minister and Ed Miliband. GET BILLS DOWN, NOW!

[Simon @Pangrowlin]

@Ryanzila2 @KemiBadenoch Foreign aid is only 9.2 billion projected for 2027, you could cut all of it and we’d still be billions short, 16 billion isn’t enough it’s more like 28 billion the needed amount. Welfare spend is 333.7 billion annually and rising.

[Robert Colvile @rcolvile]

The actual definition of affordable housing.

[Simon @Pangrowlin]

@Jack_McClendon @Noahpinion Why would Russia want just the far east when it can have the entirety of Russia as a vassal if it props them up. If it took the far east the rest of Russia would then see China as an enemy.

[Simon @Pangrowlin]

@AaronBastani @ItsTaz1989 What is the criteria? If it’s only monarchs then sure but if it’s great military men then you have John Churchill, Duke of Marlborough or Wellington

[Robert Colvile @rcolvile]

Sorry, Kevin, this is nonsense. Housing costs as a % of income have risen from 10% in 1957 to 30% or more. We are 6.5m homes behind European average. And the evidence from the many other countries with similar interest rates but higher housebuilding is pretty bloody clear.

[Simon @Pangrowlin]

@richardparke15 @jclib1990 It shouldn’t be tied to inflation. It should be tied to wage growth so they’re in the same basket and have the same incentives as working age people.

[Simon @Pangrowlin]

@ph7litmus @Sam_Dumitriu That’s because Brits have significantly more in private pensions than Europeans. This is a feature not a bug we should not be trying to match their state pensions, we can neither afford it nor is it necessary.

[Simon @Pangrowlin]

@Felipe_Grey95 @Sam_Dumitriu What? It’s immoral to have a system that is unsustainable continue. Just because you make a mistake does not mean you should continue making it. This is not sustainable economics.

[Simon @Pangrowlin]

@ordinarytings Unfortunately if you look at polling. All age groups support the triple lock. Who knows if it’s delusion they’ll receive it one day or weird belief that pensioners are struggling.

[Simon @Pangrowlin]

@_QuickFang @MrHreviews @cfdownes_ Not how it works, that’s just a performative measure there is no pension pot. Your NI went to paying current pensioners it’s already spent. You don’t contribute to your own pension.

[Simon @Pangrowlin]

@MarkDav2016 @BateMasterman @StatisticUrban What you don’t appear to understand is the triple lock costs 10-11 billion a year right now (that’s just the increase not the overall cost of pensions) by 2030 that’s 15 billion and if it’s still in place by 2050 it will be 45 billion increase per year.

[Simon @Pangrowlin]

@MarkDav2016 @BateMasterman @StatisticUrban I think we should massively reduce incentives and make it far harder to migrate here for all but the most skilled and punish countries with sanctions, remittance taxes and other measures who won’t take their people back.

[Simon @Pangrowlin]

@JamesW1906 @DavidMcGregorBN Sadly it will just turn younger voters towards the greens who are just as economically delusional just from the other direction.

[Simon @Pangrowlin]

@MarkDav2016 @BateMasterman @StatisticUrban So what? Working age people don’t get a triple lock, they’re not protected from inflation and they foot the bill for unfunded increases in the state pension since pensioners never contributed enough to receive the amount they do.

[Simon @Pangrowlin]

@MarkDav2016 @BateMasterman @StatisticUrban If someone is earning loads from private pensions it is neither smart policy nor fair to those who are worse off that they receive any state pension.

[Simon @Pangrowlin]

@MarkDav2016 @BateMasterman @StatisticUrban You haven’t addressed my point about how people do not pay in enough to cover how much they receive ergo the burden falls on everyone else. And no pensioner cohort income is not a private matter but a key feature of economic function that cannot be hand waved away.

[Simon @Pangrowlin]

@MarkDav2016 @BateMasterman @StatisticUrban Also ignoring that the U.K. unlike Europe has a large amount of private pensions so the 13k thing is an illusion. U.K. pensioners on average get far more than that overall.

[Simon @Pangrowlin]

@MarkDav2016 @BateMasterman @StatisticUrban Yeah but the median earner only pays 56% of their state pension value in their life. Very very few people ever pay in enough compared to what they withdraw. Those are insanely unsustainable figures and it’s clear the vast majority never pay in enough to fund what they withdraw.