So In summary :

⬇️Keep the cap down⬇️

💷Fund infrastructure progressively.📈

🚫Stop punishing the poor for plugging in🔌

If you want a fairer energy policy and lower bills then join the Green party as that is what they are campaigning to do for you🫵🏼
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Policy decisions should be funded through general taxation, not by hiking bills for struggling families.

Ofgem's hands are tied by the funding models the government chooses.

If Labour wants to help "working people," they need to stop treating energy bills like a secondary tax collection service.

We need a safety net for vulnerable households and we need green infrastructure💚.

Funding government policies via people's energy bills is regressive😈!

​A millionaire🎩 in a mansion pays the same Standing Charge as a pensioner in a flat👵🏼.

The nasty surprise in your Jan-Feb bill is the Standing Charge💷.

Policies like the extended Warm Home Discount🏠 and a levy for Sizewell C ⚛️(paying for nuclear plants that aren't even built yet!) are slapped onto fixed daily charges.

​This is a flat tax hitting low-users and the poor hardest.😢

This isn’t accidental. It’s the logical outcome of treating housing as a commodity first, and a home second.

It has to stop!

#TaxWealthNotWork #WealthInequality

Then HMOs exploded post-2008. Cheap credit, stagnant wages, and rising rents made shared housing the default for millions.

The impact?
- Family homes carved up
- Streets hollowed out
- Tenants churned every 6–12 months
- Councils scrambling to regulate what they once enabled

The private rental market boom started with Thatcher, but successive UK governments helped with.
- Tax relief on mortgage interest
- Capital gains exemptions
- No wealth tax
- Right to Buy without replacement
- Planning loopholes for conversions

Today a house is not about shelter, instead it's about stacking returns. Room-by-room rental, diversified income, regulatory arbitrage. An investment asset in bricks and mortar.

But we didn’t just financialise housing. We then built derivatives on top of it. Enter the HMO: one house, sliced into rentable units, engineered for yield.

Figures are approximate, representative figures drawn from a combination of UK Ministry of Justice historical data series and House of Commons Library briefings that show the broad trend rather than exact annual counts.

9. Exit Tax for Wealth Leaving UK
- Tax unrealized gains when assets move abroad
- Prevents tax avoidance via relocation

10. Investment Allowance Reform
- Encourage productive investment while taxing gains fairly
- Supports growth alongside equity

7. Inheritance Tax Reform
- Close loopholes like the “death uplift”
- Ensures fairer taxation of inherited wealth

8. Scrap Non-Dom Tax Status
- End special tax privileges for wealthy foreign residents
- Already underway, but full removal boosts fairness

5. 4% Tax on Share Buybacks
- Discourages profit hoarding, boosts real investment
- Raises £0.1–£2B/year (up to £9B over a parliament)

6. Permanent Windfall Tax on Oil & Gas
- Extend and strengthen excess profits tax
- Revenue varies, but significant

3. Close Carried Interest Loophole
- Tax private equity profits like regular income
- Raises £510M/year

4. National Insurance on Investment Income
- Apply NI to dividends, rent, savings interest
- Adds £10.2B/year

1. Wealth Tax on £10M+ Assets
- 2% annual tax on assets over £10 million
- Targets ~20,000 people, raises up to £24B/year

2. Capital Gains Tax Overhaul
- Align CGT rates with income tax, close loopholes
- Adds £12B/year beyond current reforms

We've got significant idle capacity, inflation is moderate so, print baby print.... Just this time spend it on areas that indirectly help real people for longer than a furlough scheme did directly and, make sure to model the flows of wealth so you bring the money back into the exchequer!