Toby Risk
@tobyrisk.bsky.social
Green Party member because environmental justice equals social justice. Neither capitalist or socialist. A balanced economy has room for the best of both. It's not 'the economy stupid', its the quality of life that matters.
Its even worse. high value houses will be revalued for the new mansion tax but retain their 1991 value for council tax. Reeves has been persuaded by the #Treasury to make taxes EVEN more complex and opaque. #budget
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Reeve's Mansion Tax. Please don't cheer as yet another bad fiscal policy is born
The UK has vast reservoirs of unearned wealth.
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November 27, 2025 at 8:08 PM
Its even worse. high value houses will be revalued for the new mansion tax but retain their 1991 value for council tax. Reeves has been persuaded by the #Treasury to make taxes EVEN more complex and opaque. #budget
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Planning on writing a lot more in the future. my first new piece. #budget2025 #ukPolitics open.substack.com/pub/tobyrisk...
Reeve's Mansion Tax. Please don't cheer as yet another bad fiscal policy is born
The UK has vast reservoirs of unearned wealth.
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November 27, 2025 at 8:03 AM
Planning on writing a lot more in the future. my first new piece. #budget2025 #ukPolitics open.substack.com/pub/tobyrisk...
#Reeves #mansionTax is the most pathetic revision of taxing unearned property wealth anyone could dream up. @torstenbell.bsky.social is calling this a big reform. The wasn’t a hard decision, its as hard as dipping a toe in a tepid bath. #ukpolitics @teamlabouruk.bsky.social need to grow a pair
November 26, 2025 at 6:40 PM
#Reeves #mansionTax is the most pathetic revision of taxing unearned property wealth anyone could dream up. @torstenbell.bsky.social is calling this a big reform. The wasn’t a hard decision, its as hard as dipping a toe in a tepid bath. #ukpolitics @teamlabouruk.bsky.social need to grow a pair
Two things that were screamingly absent from #budget2025. Any measures for growth and Defence. What gives @teamlabouruk.bsky.social #ukPolitics
November 26, 2025 at 6:34 PM
Two things that were screamingly absent from #budget2025. Any measures for growth and Defence. What gives @teamlabouruk.bsky.social #ukPolitics
Reducing the #salarySacrfice to pension contributions means we will pay tax on the money we’ve put in and will pay tax when we take it out #pensions #budget2025 #ukPolitics
November 26, 2025 at 6:31 PM
Reducing the #salarySacrfice to pension contributions means we will pay tax on the money we’ve put in and will pay tax when we take it out #pensions #budget2025 #ukPolitics
#budget2025 I’m sure it won’t happen but I want #reeves to announce a serious consultation on replacing #stampDuty, #businessRates and a large part of #councilTax with a #LandValueTax.
November 26, 2025 at 8:07 AM
#budget2025 I’m sure it won’t happen but I want #reeves to announce a serious consultation on replacing #stampDuty, #businessRates and a large part of #councilTax with a #LandValueTax.
The only message i got from #CharlieFaulkner on #r4Today was that the little people like us can’t be trusted to understand evidence or objectively judge a case as a
member of a #jury. And the idea that Judges will always be a bulwark against an overbearing state is laughable. just look at the #US
member of a #jury. And the idea that Judges will always be a bulwark against an overbearing state is laughable. just look at the #US
November 26, 2025 at 8:00 AM
The only message i got from #CharlieFaulkner on #r4Today was that the little people like us can’t be trusted to understand evidence or objectively judge a case as a
member of a #jury. And the idea that Judges will always be a bulwark against an overbearing state is laughable. just look at the #US
member of a #jury. And the idea that Judges will always be a bulwark against an overbearing state is laughable. just look at the #US
Clear that #reeves will raise taxes for higher tax rate payers, but will she alleviate the trap many families are in where there is one earner. eg: a family with 2x35k pa earners pay much less tax than one with 1x70k pa earner #budget2025
November 26, 2025 at 7:39 AM
Clear that #reeves will raise taxes for higher tax rate payers, but will she alleviate the trap many families are in where there is one earner. eg: a family with 2x35k pa earners pay much less tax than one with 1x70k pa earner #budget2025
I wonder if the @commonsspeaker.parliament.uk be calling for the Honourable Member for Clacton and St Petersburg tomorrow in the post #budget2025 debate?
November 25, 2025 at 6:13 PM
I wonder if the @commonsspeaker.parliament.uk be calling for the Honourable Member for Clacton and St Petersburg tomorrow in the post #budget2025 debate?
A little grateful that #UK #railFares are to be frozen next year. But let's put that into perspective.
Since 2010:
Rail fares have increased by 64%
Fuel duty has increased by 0%
For the next 15 years, this needs to be rebalanced
#ukPolitics
Since 2010:
Rail fares have increased by 64%
Fuel duty has increased by 0%
For the next 15 years, this needs to be rebalanced
#ukPolitics
November 24, 2025 at 1:39 PM
A little grateful that #UK #railFares are to be frozen next year. But let's put that into perspective.
Since 2010:
Rail fares have increased by 64%
Fuel duty has increased by 0%
For the next 15 years, this needs to be rebalanced
#ukPolitics
Since 2010:
Rail fares have increased by 64%
Fuel duty has increased by 0%
For the next 15 years, this needs to be rebalanced
#ukPolitics
Just tax them properly. They claim the Duchie's are private (arguable) so they should pay for the privilege.
So sounds like Rachel Reeves could sort out many issues by removing all tax payer support of the Windsor clan and nationalising the crown estates.
King’s ransom bit.ly/48rKqGO what the Royal Family really costs as its income ratchets up from the Sovereign Grant after soaring Buckingham Palace costs and offshore wind
November 22, 2025 at 8:53 AM
Just tax them properly. They claim the Duchie's are private (arguable) so they should pay for the privilege.
Another disastrous piece of #PR from #Reeves herself. She obviously gets a lot of stick, but she won't gain any support from complaining about it. Its pretty clear to the whole country that she's hardly nailing the role of Chancellor and her poor decisions are damaging the #UK. #ukPolitics
November 22, 2025 at 8:51 AM
Another disastrous piece of #PR from #Reeves herself. She obviously gets a lot of stick, but she won't gain any support from complaining about it. Its pretty clear to the whole country that she's hardly nailing the role of Chancellor and her poor decisions are damaging the #UK. #ukPolitics
It’s also a symptom of how our #FPTP electoral process produces incompetent and tribal governments
Having Johnson & Cummings in Downing Street when Covid struck was, just like Brexit, an entirely avoidable disaster caused largely by utterly appalling journalism. And now exactly the same clowns, arses & bigots with bylines are rolling out the red carpet for Farage.
www.thetimes.com/article/1b15...
www.thetimes.com/article/1b15...
Covid inquiry live: ‘Inexcusable’ delays under Johnson led to 23,000 deaths
Lockdowns may have been avoided if Boris Johnson’s government had acted faster, damning report finds
www.thetimes.com
November 20, 2025 at 5:33 PM
It’s also a symptom of how our #FPTP electoral process produces incompetent and tribal governments
Dear Keir, you tried. being #PM is not about being a competent manager, its about being an inspirational leader who is prepared to back their team on the really tough decisions. its time to go. Quickly and with grace. You just don’t have it. #ukPolitics #dearKeir @uklabourparty.bsky.social
November 19, 2025 at 6:39 PM
Dear Keir, you tried. being #PM is not about being a competent manager, its about being an inspirational leader who is prepared to back their team on the really tough decisions. its time to go. Quickly and with grace. You just don’t have it. #ukPolitics #dearKeir @uklabourparty.bsky.social
I think the best result from the #budget2025 that can be achieved is to just cancel it. #ukPolitics
November 19, 2025 at 7:51 AM
I think the best result from the #budget2025 that can be achieved is to just cancel it. #ukPolitics
In 2008, it was the circular dependency of leverage that brought down Bear Stearns, Lehmans, Merrill Lynch, and shook Morgan Stanley, AIG and even Goldman Sachs. The #AI bubble shows the same circularity, what we don’t know is how much debt is supported by overhyped stock prices #aiBubble #business
November 19, 2025 at 7:33 AM
They had barrel loads of political capital, a ton of goodwill and a country full of hope. They squandered all of it on naval gazing on why the @uklabourparty.bsky.social had lost the 1992 election. So niaive and incompetent #ukpolitics.
What a shocking waste of opportunity this government has proved to be.
It has squandered its time and attention on ridiculous fiscal rules, persecuting refugees and trashing ecosystems in the name of growth, while failing to deliver what we so desperately want.
www.theguardian.com/society/2025...
It has squandered its time and attention on ridiculous fiscal rules, persecuting refugees and trashing ecosystems in the name of growth, while failing to deliver what we so desperately want.
www.theguardian.com/society/2025...
NHS failing to cut waiting times as promised in recovery plan, report warns
Public accounts committee finds Labour’s progress ‘appears to have stalled’ despite billions of pounds in investment
www.theguardian.com
November 19, 2025 at 7:20 AM
They had barrel loads of political capital, a ton of goodwill and a country full of hope. They squandered all of it on naval gazing on why the @uklabourparty.bsky.social had lost the 1992 election. So niaive and incompetent #ukpolitics.
So #reeves and #starmer have decided that 'the everyone should pay their share' idea lasted a whole 10 days. Instead they've determined the Brompton Bikes get to pay for the 30 billion black hole. #ukPolitics #salarySacrifice #cycleToWork
November 14, 2025 at 8:01 AM
So #reeves and #starmer have decided that 'the everyone should pay their share' idea lasted a whole 10 days. Instead they've determined the Brompton Bikes get to pay for the 30 billion black hole. #ukPolitics #salarySacrifice #cycleToWork
Having marched the entire country up the hill of anxiety, they now feel it's appropriate to march us down into the valley of fear.
Yet again this proves these two are utterly incompetent at political communication. #ukPolitics #bondMarket
Yet again this proves these two are utterly incompetent at political communication. #ukPolitics #bondMarket
Rachel Reeves to abandon plans to raise income tax rates in budget
Rachel Reeves to abandon plans to raise income tax rates in budget
Labour had laid the ground to break a manifesto pledge on taxes for working people but has now made a U-turn
Rachel Reeves looks set to abandon raising income tax in her budget with the chancellor reportedly “ripping up” the main measures in her plan in the wake of turmoil in the party.
A source told the Guardian that plans to break the manifesto pledge on income tax had been ditched by the prime minister, Keir Starmer, and the chancellor. Continue reading...
www.theguardian.com
November 14, 2025 at 7:59 AM
Having marched the entire country up the hill of anxiety, they now feel it's appropriate to march us down into the valley of fear.
Yet again this proves these two are utterly incompetent at political communication. #ukPolitics #bondMarket
Yet again this proves these two are utterly incompetent at political communication. #ukPolitics #bondMarket
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Rachel Reeves to abandon plans to raise income tax rates in budget
Rachel Reeves to abandon plans to raise income tax rates in budget
Labour had laid the ground to break a manifesto pledge on taxes for working people but has now made a U-turn
Rachel Reeves looks set to abandon raising income tax in her budget with the chancellor reportedly “ripping up” the main measures in her plan in the wake of turmoil in the party.
A source told the Guardian that plans to break the manifesto pledge on income tax had been ditched by the prime minister, Keir Starmer, and the chancellor. Continue reading...
www.theguardian.com
November 14, 2025 at 12:24 AM
Rachel Reeves to abandon plans to raise income tax rates in budget
Tuesday morning, a small error leads a great British institution to create a mammoth clusterfuck of messaging. Tuesday afternoon, 10 Downing Street, McSweeney asks his beer to be held for a moment. #ukPolitics
November 13, 2025 at 8:56 PM
Tuesday morning, a small error leads a great British institution to create a mammoth clusterfuck of messaging. Tuesday afternoon, 10 Downing Street, McSweeney asks his beer to be held for a moment. #ukPolitics
@pippacrerar.bsky.social, @samcoatessky.bsky.social and others know exactly who briefed against @wesstreeting.bsky.social on Tuesday,if #mcSweeney is talking BS to the #PM then they need to find a way to get that message to Keir’s team
November 13, 2025 at 6:16 PM
@pippacrerar.bsky.social, @samcoatessky.bsky.social and others know exactly who briefed against @wesstreeting.bsky.social on Tuesday,if #mcSweeney is talking BS to the #PM then they need to find a way to get that message to Keir’s team