Jonathan

[Jonathan @techgeekjon]

@AvonandsomerRob £14 outside of Newcastle

[Paul Rees. ex Rucksack. @HannahIamthest1]

From a Facebook Group, Yorkshire Humour.

⚠️ A Sheffield man has praised Andy Burnham's new Google Maps fuel price feature after managing to save a whopping £1.60 on a tank of petrol! 😲

33 year old Phillip Patel spotted a petrol station selling fuel 4p a litre cheaper than his local garage and immediately made the 3 mile journey to fill up his tank!

After completing the 6 mile round trip, the delighted motorist worked out that he'd spent 95p on petrol getting there and back, leaving him with a net saving of 65p! 🥂

To celebrate his newfound wealth, Phil treated himself to a Freddo bar. A luxury purchase he admits he probably wouldn't have made had it not been for the Fuel Map.

[Jonathan @techgeekjon]

@Jenny_1884 It’s a joke the price

[Jonathan @techgeekjon]

@JamesMelville More rip off Britain 🇬🇧 and inflation far higher than my inflation pay rise

[James Melville 🚜 @JamesMelville]

Spotted this in the Co-op fridge: Aberdeen Angus Scotch Beef Mince, 500g, £7.00 - that’s £14 a kilo. The average rise in supermarket beef mince is at 29% over the previous 12 months. Standard meals like spaghetti bolognaise, cottage pie and chilli are turning into expensive treats for many households.

[James Melville 🚜 @JamesMelville]

The Great British Rip Off.

We pay more for everything and what we get back is falling apart.

Food is nearly 40% more expensive than five years ago and on track to be around 50% higher than mid-2021 by the end of this year.

Olive oil has more than doubled. Beef, eggs, pasta and chocolate are all up by half or more.

Diesel has just hit a record £2 a litre. Petrol is around 174p. A typical energy bill is £1,723 under the October price cap - 58% higher than winter 2021/22.

£billions spent on importing oil and gas from Norway and the North Sea, while the government turns off the taps on new UK oil and gas licenses from the same sea.

Gas rates are roughly 140% above mid-2021.

One of the highest electricity rates in the world.

The tax burden is at the highest since records began in the late 1940s and still forecast to climb even further.

Employer National Insurance went up. Business rates land on the local independent shop. Retailers now hand over about 72p in business taxes for every £1 of pre-tax profit.

Walk the high street and you can see where that money did not go. One in seven high street properties is empty. Hollowed out streets where proud local businesses used to stand bringing communities together.

Over 70,000 UK shop closures since 2020. Retail jobs fell by 122,000 in two years.

The UK hospitality sector has suffered a net loss of more than 16,000 licensed venues (including pubs, bars, clubs, and restaurants) since the start of the Covid in March 2020.

A record 6,365 UK agriculture, forestry and fishing businesses closed in 2025 alone.

Familiar names keep shrinking or vanishing - boarded windows, “to let” signs a vape shop where the butcher or the bank used to be. The places that held a town together are being taxed and costed out of existence while you are told the economy is being “supported.”

The roads tell the same story. Councils in England and Wales face a record £18.6 billion backlog of carriageway repairs - twelve years of work. Only about half the local network is in good structural condition. More than 32,500 miles have less than five years of life left. Roads are resurfaced, on average, once every 97 years. 1 million potholes. Road drains left without regular cleaning.

We pay record fuel prices to drive on roads that wreck tyres and suspension.

Water is no better. Pipes leak, rivers take the sewage bills still rise. No major new reservoirs were built in England for over 30 years. Dozens sold off. And we end up getting told that we have a hosepipe ban when there’s a few days sunshine in July.

Schools, hospitals and rail carry the same pattern: maintenance deferred, promises announced, yet more decay.

But meanwhile data centres, solar panels and wind turbines are being plastered across prime farmland reducing our food supply, natural habitats and resources.

And the people in charge? An MP’s basic salary is £98,599 - up 5% this year, more than 20% since the £81,932 they were on in 2021. Ministers take a second salary and huge expenses on top. Their pay is increased while our taxes continue rise - which helps to fund them to manage our decline.

What is overdue is a massive, sustained cost-of-living protest - visible, peaceful, organised, impossible to shrug off by the government - until tax rises, food, fuel and energy prices and sense general decay stop crushing ordinary households and until the country we pay more and more for stops being left to rot by local and national governments.

[Jonathan @techgeekjon]

@announcerphil I do remember as was aircraft engineer at Gatwick key workers only for fuel ⛽️

[Phil Seymour @announcerphil]

Do you remember the protests when diesel hit £1 per litre? Blockades of fuel depots and rolling road blocks on motorways etc? It’s now at £2 per litre, and it’s still going up 🤦🏻‍♂️

[Nick Dixon @NickDixonITV]

219.9p a litre for diesel at M23 services in Sussex this morning. That’s almost £121 to fill a 55-litre tank. A painful start to the day for anyone who depends on their car @GMB 🚗 🚛

[Fynn @fynnvestor]

Tesco petrol station this morning

Diesel £1.94

This is ridiculous

[Nigel Nelson @nnelsonni]

£100 a week just to put diesel in the car so I can get to work. A hundred quid. Every single week.

From Monday 28th September through to Saturday 31st October that's £500 gone on fuel alone. Half a grand.

The energy companies are stuffing billions into their pockets from people like me. The fat cats get fatter. I get poorer and this government couldn't give a shite.

That's the country we're living in. I'm literally just forgotten about.

[Jonathan @techgeekjon]

@MartinSLewis More importantly we need to increase personal allowance to help low and middle income earners

[Jonathan @techgeekjon]

@andyburnham No point been able to buy home if it costs 20 point to start your car to drive to work fix the basics first like cost of living then people could afford a home I’m 52 I can’t afford to buy proobably need a loan to fill my car soon

[Annunziata Rees-Mogg @zatzi]

In the US unleaded petrol is 94p/litre. 11p of that is tax.

Here it’s upwards of £1.70 and 81.43p* of that is tax.

Without tax the US and UK price at the pump would be 83p/l and 89.5p/l

It’s not international prices forcing up our fuel to unaffordable levels.

It’s our government. 😡😡😡

(*UK pump price of 170.9p per litre, tax is 81.43p per litre, meaning 47.6% of what you pay goes directly to the government.

Tax Breakdown
•Fuel Duty: 52.95p per litre
•VAT (20%): 28.48p per litre (charged at 20% on the underlying cost of the fuel plus the fuel duty, creating a "tax on a tax").
◦VAT on the fuel duty alone: 10.59p of that VAT amount comes directly from taxing the 52.95p duty.)

[Jonathan @techgeekjon]

@andyburnham Before sorting any of this you need to reduce fuel by 50p per litre

[Julia Lopez MP @JuliaLopezMP]

Fuel prices are crazy right now, driving up the cost of everything - from your supermarket shop to your daily commute.

Government can’t control what’s going on in Iran but every time you fill up, you’re paying the Treasury a massive chunk of tax - and Ministers want more from January.

Shadow Transport Sec, @RicHolden & I have been speaking to lorry drivers filling up near the Dartford Crossing, where diesel was over 200p and petrol 189.9p. Fuel is costing them £100s more every week than it was in January - they will have to charge extra for delivering goods to our shops.

If you think the Prime Minister should scrap the planned fuel duty rise and do his bit for drivers, sign our petition and support our fight in parliament. https://t.co/bMtcJnnVfW

[Jamie Jenkins @statsjamie]

🚨 DIESEL IS HITTING £2 A LITRE

The UK average is now 198.3p a litre, and many forecourts have already passed £2. My local is one of them.

And as prices rise, the Treasury automatically takes more VAT.

Diesel has risen almost 56p a litre since the end of February, adding roughly 9p more VAT per litre.

At £2 a litre, around 86p is tax, including fuel duty and VAT.

Drivers are being hammered by a global energy shock while the Government collects more tax from every litre.

Should some of that extra VAT be given back to motorists?

[John Redwood @johnredwood]

The UK government does nothing to ease the runaway price of fuel, claiming it all comes from the world oil price. So why is petrol £1.72 a litre here and 95 p a litre in the US? The UK government is taking too much in tax.

[Jonathan @techgeekjon]

@itvMLshow @MartinSLewis I really hope you ca. have some influence on government about fuel price at the pump , price per barrel no higher than other high times yet fuel 39% more than few months ago is not acceptable country will grind to halt soon please please help

[Andy Davies @_AndyDavies]

I love a pint at the footy as much as the next man but if you want to do something decent sort fuel prices out @andyburnham - this is getting ridiculous!