The UK personal allowance has been frozen at £12,570 since April 2021.
That's the bit of your salary you keep before HMRC starts taking 20% off everything above it.
In 2021, £12,570 was a reasonable tax-free bracket. Inflation since then has been roughly 25% cumulative, and the price of basically everything you actually spend money on has gone up — energy, rent, food, council tax, fuel.
If the personal allowance had simply tracked inflation, it would now be closer to £15,700.
Instead, the threshold sits exactly where it did when Sunak set it five years ago, and is locked there until 2030.
The cost shows up everywhere except on your payslip. Every shop, every bill, every bit of your monthly budget feels tighter — while the threshold that's supposed to protect the first slice of your wages from tax just sits there at 2021 levels.
The official line is that they 'haven't raised taxes.' They haven't needed to. Inflation does the job for them, every single year, until 2030.
Guardiola is asked why he went to the Stockport game the other night and jokes: "I looked at the calendar the day before, I saw PSG v Bayern... what a disaster, disaster game... rubbish managers, Luis, Vinny. Shit, shit players..."
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Oh, John Stones😔, This video brings a lot of tears man.
From the moment he arrived from Everton in 2016, he became the blueprint of everything Pep Guardiola wanted to build. A ball-playing centre-back who didn’t just fit the system, he helped define it.
He became the quiet heartbeat of this Manchester City era. Composed under pressure, intelligent in possession, and utterly reliable when it mattered most.
Six Premier League titles. A Champions League. A historic Treble.
John Stones. A Manchester City legend. Forever. 🩵
@TheAdrianDurham the mad thing is even in the "peak premier league years" that people go on about where tackles flew in left right and centre - if a player did this it was a red back in those days. Sh1t house refs and VAR