Almost a third of your water bill pays for dividends for shareholders, and for private water companies to pay off their debt, according to research by @cmmonwealth.bsky.social Will Rachel Reeves end the rip-off and bring down water bills in this Budget? #Budget

Energy bills are set to rise again in January, Ofgem announced today. Private energy companies take 24.2% of the average energy bill as profit, according to research by @cmmonwealth.bsky.social. Will Rachel Reeves end the rip-off and bring down energy bills in this Budget?

Former City trader Gary Stevenson calls for the public to demand reduced inequality and a fairer taxation system from their politicians. #TaxTheSuperRich @garyseconomics.bsky.social

A senior nurse on a £40,000 salary pays more tax than someone who makes the same from selling shares. Why is income from share taxed less than income from work?

Rachel Reeves is ditching plans to introduce an exit tax on wealthy people who leave the UK, according to reports today. But when every other G7 country, apart from Italy, has an exit tax, why doesn’t the UK? #TaxTheSuperRich

Phil White from @patmillsuk.bsky.social calls for wealth taxes on the super-rich and calls out the arguments against. #TaxTheSuperRich

Banks have made these huge profits by hiking mortgages and loans while paying measly interest on our savings.

Big 4 bank profits have soared to more than £35bn so far this year. Why won’t Rachel Reeves raise taxes on the banks?

So sharp! Struck by his answer to ‘a reason conservatives are welcome in your coalition?’ I'd expected usual stuff about being open to everyone, but he said ‘they also have to pay rent’. Great eg of pushing material interests that @jemgilbert.bsky.social @profafinlayson.bsky.social have talked about

Frankie Boyle on the banks 🔥

Since the start of the year, the big 4 banks have made £32bn from interest and bank fees in the UK - paid by you. A 38% tax on UK net income as proposed by @positivemoneyuk.bsky.social would have raised £11bn so far this year.

The big 4 banks have made £35.1bn in profits so far this year. Imposing a similar windfall tax to oil and gas companies on their UK income would raise billions to invest in the NHS.

HSBC boss Georges Elhedery already earns £10.5 million a year. But HSBC are raising his pay to £15 million a year. If HSBC can afford these excessive wages for their CEO, surely they can afford to pay a windfall tax?

NEW: HSBC have made £17.3 billion in profit so far this year, according to latest figures released today. But their CEO has warned the government not to introduce a new windfall tax on the banks. When HSBC are making such big profits, why can't they pay a windfall tax?

Lloyds Bank have made £4.7 billion in profit so far this year, according to figures released yesterday. Yet their CEO claims they can’t afford to pay more tax. A windfall tax on the Big 4 banks - as proposed by @positivemoneyuk.bsky.social - could raise billions for our public services.

NEW: NatWest have made £5.8 billion in profit so far this year, according to latest figures released today. But their CEO has warned the government not to introduce a new windfall tax on the banks. When they're making such big profits, why can't NatWest pay a windfall tax?

Dave Fishwick from ‘Bank of Dave’ slams huge banker bonuses while the poorest in the UK are forced to use food banks 🤯

Barclays CEO C.S. Venkatakrishnan was paid £10.5 million last year. But in September he told The Financial Times that the government needs to curb public sector pay rises. When so many of us are struggling to pay our bills, maybe Fat Cat CEOs should take a pay cut instead?

Barclays have made £7.3bn in profit so far this year, according to figures released today. Their CEO thinks higher taxation on banks is 'facile and fallacious logic'. But a windfall tax on the Big 4 UK banks, proposed by @positivemoneyuk.bsky.social, could raise billions to invest in public services

These are the Top 10 individual donors to political parties in 2025 so far. The list includes a billionaire based in Monaco, a luxury property developer, an aristocrat, a Swiss banker, an MP and a Lord. Check out the full Top 10 here: sharethewealth.org.uk/latest/top-1...

The Top 10 individual donors to British political parties in 2025 so far includes billionaires based in Monaco, Swiss bankers, aristocrats, and even MPs and Lords. These are the super-rich people who bankroll our political parties.

Simple thread / presentation here of a recent piece of campaign framing and messaging project I worked on with @cliffordsinger.bsky.social

Former City trader Gary Stevenson on the influence of the super-rich over our politicians #TaxTheSuperRich @garyseconomics.bsky.social

Bloomberg research found wholesale electricity up ~270% in areas near data centers It doesn't seem like nearly enough people are taking it seriously One A.I. image isn't too much energy, but 5 million videos? Per day/hour/minute whatever. It's not sustainable www.bloomberg.com/graphics/202...

This is Trevor Fisher, speaking to @channel4news.bsky.social from Arthur Rank Hospice in Cambridgeshire this week. As a palliative care specialist, Trevor’s interview has devastated me. His hospice has just been told Cambridge University Hospitals NHS Trust is withdrawing £800k of funding. 🧵

Energy bills are up 2% from today, after a rise in the energy price cap. Meanwhile CEOs like Chris O’Shea of British Gas continue to earn huge sums, and energy companies continue to give big payouts to shareholders. Is that right when most of us are struggling to pay our bills?

New taxes on big gambling companies - as proposed by @ippr.org - could raise £3 billion a year. That’s enough to scrap the two-child benefit cap, lifting more than 500,000 children out of poverty overnight.

Julia Davies from @patmillsuk.bsky.social takes on Charlie Mullins to call for an increase in Capital Gains Tax in order to fund investment in public services like the NHS #TaxTheSuperRich

Say what you will about them but at least Change UK managed to have a Nando’s dinner first

A teacher on a £40k salary pays more tax than someone who makes the same from selling shares. Why is income from shares taxed less than income from work?

Friendly reminder to the government: other think tanks are available 👋

Kevin Maguire says wealthy people are undertaxed and calls for capital gains tax to be taxed at the same rate we tax income from work 👏 #TaxTheSuperRich

Latest @theguardian.com cartoon #WesStreeting #FreeSpeech www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

Billionaire Nick Candy donated £500,000 to Reform in the second quarter of 2025, according to new political party donation figures from the Electoral Commission. In 2005 he moved to Monaco 'for tax reasons'. Are the super-rich undermining democracy?

Marina Purkiss asks why we tax people who work more than people who accumulate wealth #TaxTheSuperRich #WealthTax @marina-purkiss.bsky.social

Matthew Wright calls out the excuses of the super-rich who say they can’t pay more tax 🔥

The average FTSE 100 boss earned £4.58m last year, a 7% rise from the year before. That’s 122 times more than the average UK worker earns each year. Should fat cat CEOs be earning so much money in a cost of living crisis?

The new CEO of Melrose and his predecessor earned almost £59m last year, according to new analysis from @highpaycentre.bsky.social. The average UK nurse would take 1,636 years to earn the same amount. While most of us are struggling to pay our bills, FTSE 100 fat cats are raking it in.

In just the first 6 months of 2025 the big 4 banks have made £16.5 billion in UK income. A windfall tax like the one on oil and gas companies - as proposed by @positivemoneyuk.bsky.social - could raise £5 billion so far this year from those banks, enough to scrap the two-child benefit cap.

The big 4 banks have made £24.1bn in profits in just the first 6 months of 2025. Imposing a similar windfall tax to oil and gas companies on their UK income would have already raised enough to scrap the two-child benefit cap, lifting more than 250,000 children out of poverty overnight.

Incredibly instructive reporting on what appears well on its way to becoming the biggest, most concentrated, most energy- and resource-intensive, and most speculative wave of capital investment ever. ig.ft.com/ai-data-cent...

Excellent work - and media coverage - by @positivemoneyuk.bsky.social

This @jewishcurrents.bsky.social podcast with @bradlander.bsky.social on how he came to cross-endorse @zohrankmamdani.bsky.social is genuinely heartwarming. @peterbeinart.bsky.social jewishcurrents.org/brad-landers...

Julia Davies from the Patriotic Millionaires calls out lobby groups for the super-rich and backs a wealth tax on millionaires like her 👏 patmillsuk.bsky.social #taxtherich

Another example where a dodgy number got uncritically cited and re-cited across media and policy discussions. www.theguardian.com/world/2025/j...

Former City trader Gary Stevenson on the super-rich threatening to leave the UK because of a wealth tax #taxtherich @garyseconomics.bsky.social

A 2% wealth tax on assets over £10m could raise £8.6bn from the top 40 billionaires on the Sunday Times Rich List alone. That could cover the cost of keeping PIP disability benefits AND scrapping the two-child benefit cap. So why make cuts when you can tax the richest?

A tiny 2% annual wealth tax on assets over £10 million could raise over £5bn from the 15 richest billionaires on the Sunday Times Rich List alone. That’s enough to reverse all of the government’s planned cuts to disability benefits. #DisabilityBenefits #TakingThePIP

A tiny 2% tax on assets over £10 million could raise £4.1 billion from the top 10 richest billionaires in the UK alone. That £4.1 billion could reverse cuts to PIP disability benefits. Why cut benefits for disabled people when you could tax billionaires instead? #TakingThePIP

A tiny 2% wealth tax on assets over £10m could raise £4.1bn from the top 10 billionaires on the Sunday Times Rich List alone. That’s enough to reverse cuts to PIP disability benefit. #TakingThePIP