UK bills. Energy, food, rent, tax. Receipts first. Politics when the number needs explaining. Occasional goose 🪿
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1/ Rate rise week. On Thursday the Bank of England is expected to lift Bank Rate from 3.75% to 4%, its first rise since 2023.
The goose has done the sums for anyone with a mortgage. 🧵 HONK.
HONK. The £100 energy payment is handed out by council tax band.
Bands based on 1991 house prices.
So £350m goes to the richest fifth of households, while just under 700,000 of the poorest get nothing.
Help, aimed with a blindfold on.
Is your home getting the £100? 👇
The £100 Household Energy Payment announced last week is poorly targeted.
Even among the richest fifth of households three-in-five qualify.
Meanwhile one-in-six of the poorest families already tell us they can’t afford to heat their homes. They will face a tough winter, even with the new support.
ALT Chart showing proportion of households, by size of real change in annual gas and electricity bill and household income quintile after housing costs: GB, 2025-26 to 2026-27 (right) and proportion of househodls eligible for the £100 Council Tax Rebate, by net equivilised household income quintile: England, 2026-27
Good work Karl.
Off My Chest: Karl Turner MP on the Cost of Waiting. If you need to talk, speak up, speak out. Help is available. And DO NOT allow your mental health to be used as a stick to beat you up. Speak up and speak out!
youtu.be/sn0iuCqvQwo?si=CWwO… via @YouTube
Shrink-flation.
And it's a bigger issue than you think.
😉
Yorkshire Tea has halved the number of teabags in one of its speciality packs and put the price up!
What used to be 40 teabags for £2.50 is now just 20 for £3 in Sainsbury's.
You're paying more and getting half as much.
It's getting to the point where you really do need to check what you're buying, because the packaging might look the same but you're getting a lot less for your money.
This goose simply wouldn't apply for a job if the salary wasn't stated.
The problem is the tax we pay, on top of tax, on top of tax, on top of tax.
In England, if you earn £35,100 a year with this budget:
- No Netflix etc
- £75 a week on food
- No eating out or holidays abroad
- Rent a modest flat
- Run a basic car
Monthly outgoings:
- £950 rent
- £350 council tax, gas, electricity and water
- £325 food
- £300 car
- £200 fuel
- £50 phone and internet
- £75 clothes, toiletries and household essentials
- £100 debt repayments
- £375.50 Income Tax
- £150.20 National Insurance
£2,875.70 gone.
Saving just £49.30 & working full-time earning £35,100 a year and still barely getting by.
It's over for the UK. 🇬🇧
The goose has read the OBR small print.
Council tax receipts: £54bn this year, £70bn by 2031-32.
Tory sums put average Band D at £2,958 by then. It's £2,391 now. £567 more.
Council tax arrears in England have already more than doubled to £7.5bn.
What's your bill? HONK 👇
Average council tax bill is set to hit £3,000 in just five years, warn Tories trib.al/3nwnN2j
HONK. Christmas is coming and the goose is nervous.
Not about the oven. About the bill.
Let's itemise the damage. 🧵
🤖 Made with AI
Goose rules for Christmas:
Pick a number and stick to it.
Don't let a card turn December into a February bill with interest.
Check the Black Friday 'deal' wasn't last month's normal price.
Kids remember the day, not the receipt.
HONK. The Budget 'help': £100 payment, VAT off electricity, fuel duty cut.
IFS says it's worth £140 a home on average. Covers 35% of the forecast rise in energy bills.
JRF says incomes after housing still fall £450 by 2029/30. Worst parliament on record.
Feeling helped? 👇
📊 #IFSSatStat: Last week the Chancellor announced a one-off £100 payment to households, the temporary removal of VAT on electricity, and an extended fuel duty freeze and cut.
This gives households a £140 boost on average, which covers 35% of the forecast rise in energy bills.
ALT Chart shows average support and forecast energy bill increases (Oct 2026 to Jun 2027). Title states: "The temporary cost of living measures announced in the Budget will cover around 35% of the forecast rise in energy bills for households."
HONK. Your energy firm still asks you to read your own meter.
Now ministers want it to see your tax records.
A new bill lines up eight databases, HMRC income and Child Benefit included, so 'wealthier' homes can pay a levy on their bills.
Who decides who's wealthy? 👇
🚨 Exclusive
Labour gives energy companies powers to snoop on tax records
‘Big Brother’ tactics alleged as bill paves way for levy on wealthier households to subsidise others
telegraph.co.uk/politics/202…
Literally who is paying £35 for a haircut? 😅
£9 where I live.
