I just published a new post on my @buymeacoffee@twitter.com!

What is the Office for Budget Responsibility, the OBR, that politicians put such faith in? #DamoRants #autumnstatement2022
https://www.buymeacoffee.com/KernowDamo/what-office-budget-responsibility-obr-politicians-put-faith

What is the Office for Budget Responsibility, the OBR, that politicians put such faith in? #DamoRants #autumnstatement2022 https://www.patreon.com/posts/what-is-office-75487656?utm_medium=social&utm_source=twitter&utm_campaign=postshare_creator&utm_content=join_link

RT @HLAdultCare@twitter.com

We have written a letter to @Jeremy_Hunt@twitter.com about the #AutumnStatement2022.

We welcome the additional £4.7bn for #SocialCare, but it falls short of an adequate funding settlement & of a proper strategy for the sector. More clarity is needed, now.

📝More: https://committees.parliament.uk/publications/31755/documents/178579/default/

🐦🔗: https://twitter.com/HLAdultCare/status/1597171678358155264

IMHO this housing bubble might burst with an even bigger impact than last time. The #autumnstatement22 #autumnstatement2022 has a number of measures designed to delay the burst till after the next general election, will this work?
https://youtu.be/JY54Tyu9xC0

Some unfiltered, personal musings on what the UK #autumnstatement2022 means for the #climate , now I've had time to dwell. Bit of a long one, so apologies.

EVs: All auto industry momentum at the moment is behind battery electric. However, the energy transition we need isn't possible at the size and scale possible with full-EV alone. From what I can see, hydrogen vehicles, one of the alternatives, are less impacted by the taxes proposed (seemingly not incl. in the amended vehicle excise duty). While there are some serious headwinds to come in the hydrogen industry (leakage issues likely a future hot topic https://acp.copernicus.org/articles/22/9349/2022/acp-22-9349-2022.html), it will be interesting to see if the new policy messaging on EVs has any impact on moving investment (particularly on charging/refueling infrastructure) between technologies.

Electricity Generator Levy: What message does it send to investors in UK green infrastructure if the UK Gov shows keenness to -through policy - retrospectively affect the commercials of renewables projects on existing regulator implemented contracts (i.e. non-CfD generators)? Does this erode trust? Or is it a necessary action to push renewables contracts towards more favourable models?

Carbon leakage: we were promised in the spring a consultation this year on carbon leakage measures (e.g. a CBAM) for the UK. Still no sign of it...

Interested to hear thoughts. #sustainability #NetZero

Some unfiltered, personal musings on what the UK #autumnstatement2022 means for the #climate , now I've had time to dwell. Bit of a long one, so apologies.

EVs: All auto industry momentum at the moment is behind battery electric. However, the energy transition we need isn't possible at the size and scale possible with full-EV alone. From what I can see, hydrogen vehicles, one of the alternatives, are less impacted by the taxes proposed (seemingly not incl. in the amended vehicle excise duty). While there are some serious headwinds to come in the hydrogen industry (leakage issues likely a future hot topic https://acp.copernicus.org/articles/22/9349/2022/acp-22-9349-2022.html), it will be interesting to see if the new policy messaging on EVs has any impact on moving investment (particularly on charging/refueling infrastructure) between technologies.

Electricity Generator Levy: What message does it send to investors in UK green infrastructure if the UK Gov shows keenness to -through policy - retrospectively affect the commercials of renewables projects on existing regulator implemented contracts (i.e. non-CfD generators)? Does this erode trust? Or is it a necessary action to push renewables contracts towards more favourable models?

Carbon leakage: we were promised in the spring a consultation this year on carbon leakage measures (e.g. a CBAM) for the UK. Still no sign of it...

Interested to hear thoughts.

RT @smartyfish@twitter.com

Exactly one year ago today, 9 of us were sentenced to 4-6 months in prison for asking the govt to #InsulateBritain

Today, that same govt pledged £6bn to improve Britain’s leaky housing by insulating homes & upgrading boilers

#CivilResistance works ✊
#AutumnStatement2022

🐦🔗: https://twitter.com/smartyfish/status/1593277239780679683

Deliberately divisive
#AutumnStatement2022
'Some people on benefits will be partially protected...' '...millions of working class people won’t. The £400 energy bill discount will not be repeated'
BUT
'...if people earn £1 over the benefits threshold, they get no additional support'
AND
'...Hunt outlined new measures to pressure 600,000 UC claimants to take extra low-paid work'
BUT
'...buried in the footnotes of Hunt’s statement is a massive tax cut on bank profits'
https://socialistworker.co.uk/news/hunts-budget-promises-class-war-so-lets-strike-out-the-tories/

“ A touch of Winter in that #autumnstatement2022 “ … for all those individuals kvetching about us #pensioners getting our lowest in Europe pensions uprated: here’s what being old and cold looks like.
And here are the faggots who inflicted #austerity on us all.
You’re welcome.

RT @smartyfish@twitter.com

Exactly one year ago today, 9 of us were sentenced to 4-6 months in prison for asking the govt to #InsulateBritain

Today, that same govt pledged £6bn to improve Britain’s leaky housing by insulating homes & upgrading boilers

#CivilResistance works ✊
#AutumnStatement2022

🐦🔗: https://twitter.com/smartyfish/status/1593277239780679683

As part of my plan to save the planet I’m going to tax ________ cars. #jeremyhunt #autumnstatement2022 #GTTO #FBPE

Another drop in living standards is there anything left to squeeze ?#autumnstatement2022 https://creatingsocialism.org/another-drop-in-living-standards-to-come/

RT @EuropeanUnity1
Brexit is responsible for 4% of the drop in GDP, 6% of the increase in food prices, 15% of the drop in trade and now only 32% of the country think it was a good idea

How much longer can this be allowed to continue?

#autumnstatement2022 #BrexitRecession #BrexitReality

RT @HumzaYousaf@twitter.com

Extremely disappointed Chancellor has not provided a single penny in-year for our NHS. Not a single penny to help us afford record pay deals for NHS staff, not a single penny to combat sky-rocketing inflation caused by the UK Govt. A disastrous #autumnstatement2022 for our NHS.

🐦🔗: https://twitter.com/HumzaYousaf/status/1593277893873909760

🇬🇧#AutumnStatement: #Britain's economic growth next year will be worse than any #G20 country except Russia, says @oecd

🇬🇧UK is only #G7 country with smaller economy than before Covid-19

🤔Why? Not one mention of the ‘b’ word in
#AutumnStatement2022

#Brexit
#BrexitRecession 
#BrexitBrokeBritan

Občanský odpor funguje. To by mohlo být i poselství 17. listopadu místo idolizace komplikovaných lidí a vlezlého obhajování statu quo.
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RT @smartyfish
Exactly one year ago today, 9 of us were sentenced to 4-6 months in prison for asking the govt to #InsulateBritain

Today, that same govt pledged £6bn to improve Britain’s leaky housing by insulating homes & upgrading boilers

#CivilResistance works ✊
#AutumnStatement2022
https://twitter.com/smartyfish/status/1593277239780679683

RT @cambsforeurope: @CarolineLucas @BestForBritain @euromove And in reply all Hunt could do was fall back on the usual vacuous nonsense about "opportunities".

In time "Brexit opportunities" will rank with "efficiency savings" as the marker of a politician who has run out of ideas.

#AutumnStatement #autumnstatement2022 #BrexitRecession

🐦🔗: https://nitter.eu/catherinerowett/status/1593360701829128194

RT @smartyfish
Exactly one year ago today, 9 of us were sentenced to 4-6 months in prison for asking the govt to #InsulateBritain

Today, that same govt pledged £6bn to improve Britain’s leaky housing by insulating homes & upgrading boilers

#CivilResistance works ✊
#AutumnStatement2022

Občanský odpor funguje. To by mohlo být i poselství 17. listopadu místo idolizace komplikovaných lidí a simplifikace složitých příčin a dějů.
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RT @smartyfish
Exactly one year ago today, 9 of us were sentenced to 4-6 months in prison for asking the govt to #InsulateBritain

Today, that same govt pledged £6bn to improve Britain’s leaky housing by insulating homes & upgrading boilers

#CivilResistance works ✊
#AutumnStatement2022
https://twitter.com/smartyfish/status/1593277239780679683

RT @smartyfish@twitter.com

Exactly one year ago today, 9 of us were sentenced to 4-6 months in prison for asking the govt to #InsulateBritain

Today, that same govt pledged £6bn to improve Britain’s leaky housing by insulating homes & upgrading boilers

#CivilResistance works ✊
#AutumnStatement2022

🐦🔗: https://twitter.com/smartyfish/status/1593277239780679683