Dale Vince: Farage clearly sees whats coming...
Farage clearly sees whats coming, he broke the rules, the fouk rules, and a by election is coming. He's just getting in first, playground style ....you didn't dump me I dumped you....he's so cheap…
Dale Vince: Farage just described rules as...
Farage just described rules as " foul means" with which to beat him. Standards as an offensive weapon. He's so angry that the press came for his family....that he's resigning....his daughter's address should not have been published, if it was, but the families and addresses of immigrants have that same exposure. The man who called for "pure cold rage" which resulted in riots and police injuries, is a bit of a hypocrite. His answer is a popularity contest, of course. Votes in Clacton don't overide rules and standards and laws. Farage is Britain's Trump mini me. 🤮Dale Vince: Sharon Graham...
Sharon Graham @UniteSharon I just heard of a planned protest by Unite on the issue of high energy bills - outside Ecotricity’s office in Stroud. Understand the core issue is ‘profiteering’ and you published a useful table of profits in the overall sector to back your point. If you look at that properly you’ll see that the super high profits, as margins and as £s - are not being made by energy Retailers - where OFGEM controls profit margins to a pretty marginal 2%. The big money and where we have common cause with you - is being made by Extraction (53%), Grid (38%) and Generation (28%). You’re aiming at the wrong target in Retail (2%) and your own data shows that. We’ve published a number of papers on energy market reform, would be happy to share them - we see a way to halve energy bills with three simple (though fundamental) reforms. Wanna chat?Dale Vince: Defence hole plugged...
Defence hole plugged, wonder what energy projects got cut. When Starmer talks of things not immediately vital, can't help thinking that 25 years of carbon capture funding fits that description perfectly. As does heat pump funding.Dale Vince: Labour’s new leader should...
Labour’s new leader should move to ban all donations - we set out the rationale in Babelfish 3, we could do it for peanuts, in fact for the cit of one packet of crisps each per year. End all donations, all influence, perceived and actual - and restore trust to our democracy.Dale Vince: The one thing we all need, to get energy...
The one thing we all need, to get energy bills down, permanently - is something we can't do ourselves. We need government to ‘break the link’ - the link which allows the global price of gas to set the price of our own wind and sun. DESNZ blamed the link for high energy costs (among the highest in Europe) just this week - they know what the problem is. But they failed to deal with it. After refusing to break this link for years, they then pretended to some weeks ago - and now blame the link (they said they broke) for high bills. It’s all bit messed up. We can't ‘Break the Link’ ourselves, only government can. Will Andy Burnham do it? It’s precisely the kind of radical but fair policy that will impact the cost of living and lift millions from energy poverty - that the country needs. And arguably Labour needs, to get back on the front foot.Dale Vince: Farage channels pure Trump…
Farage channels pure Trump - stoking hatred and division, never knowingly missing an opportunity to use a tragedy to his own ends. Obvs he’s exactly the kind of leader our country needs…..:( https://metro.co.uk/2026/06/02/nigel-farage-says-white-lives-matter-man-jailed-henry-nowak-murder-28614501/Dale Vince: Another Reform member and another example…
Another Reform member and another example of Racism, Sexism and Islamophobia. Reform is a melting pot of bad people. A limited company with a dodgy leader who takes foreign money, sometimes in secret - who literally said anything for money in his Cameo stint. The beer swilling, fag smoking donkey that ‘led’ us to Brexit. https://thetimes.com/uk/politics/article/nigel-farage-preacher-stephen-clayden-97t2v7vvqDale Vince: Here it comes again…
Here it comes again - energy bill increases we could have avoided, if we had only actually 'broken the link' when Labour announced it last month. Instead of a vital change to our energy market which in 2023 would have saved £43 Billion, we got a fake, a deception, knowingly made. https://thetimes.com/business/energy/article/uk-energy-bills-soar-cold-weather-h6cf9ssddDale Vince: Wes Streeting is right about this…
Wes Streeting is right about this - we do tax money made with money at half the rate we tax money made with a pair of hands (quote from my book 2020..:) - it’s part of a broad range of tax issues we need to look at, an inherent inequality. But he’s wrong to present this as a wealth tax. And it’s unhelpful to do so, it might be an attempt to burnish his left wing credentials or just a misunderstanding. Equalising these two starkly different rates of tax is actually just the ending of a loophole for the wealthy, a significant advantage they currently have. We call money made with money (investments/assets..) a Capital Gain whereas money made in a job we call Income. That’s fundamentally unjust. Both are forms of income. Our tax system was written by people with money for people with money and it entrenches wealth, clearly - and increases the wealth poverty gap - year in and out. Tax equality is what this is about - some fundamental fairness.Dale Vince: The decision to build in the UK…
The decision to build in the UK is a significant expression of confidence in British manufacturing, which has always been at the heart of what INEOS stands for. Said Jim tax exile Ratcliffe a few years ago. Then he changed his mind, turned his back on Wales and took whatever 'INEOS stands for' abroad. Now he wants to sell our MOD his foreign made cars, while he sits in his tax haven to avoid a fair contribution to the economy he made his billions from - he’s a leech. Let’s have none of it. https://bmmagazine.co.uk/news/ineos-grenadier-mod-contract-land-rover-replacement/Dale Vince: Trump opens his mouth…
Trump opens his mouth and out comes Guff. Immigration is down 80% here since it’s Tory peak and for every one windmill we have the USA has 7..! Our North Sea is all but empty, less than 10% left - that isn’t gonna change anything. But facts don't matter to Trump, even what he says one day doesn’t matter to him the next day. Iran was beaten two months ago, but the war drags on, their Uranium stockpile was vital the other day - now it’s just a PR thing. We should pay zero attention to what this fool says. Ooops, I just gave more (of a shit) than I should have..:)Dale Vince: Labour should act on this…
Labour should act on this, properly enforce licence conditions, squeeze these foreign owned entities until the pips squeak - they're polluting our country and enriching themselves - in the worst example of what privatisation has to offer. We don’t have to accept this status quo. https://thetimes.com/uk/environment/article/water-companies-worst-2025-pollution-ever-sewage-9dvkcpvtw?utm_source=chatgpt.comDale Vince: I think it’s the worst thing Labour…
I think it’s the worst thing Labour could do right now, there’s no reason to panic over some adverse polling less than two years into a ten year project - and some of what we’re seeing is more opportunism than panic - but if there is to be a leadership contest my first choice for the job would be Keir, that’s who I’ll back. The NHS has been battered for 14 years by Tory neglect and underfunding. Just as things are starting to turn a corner, Wes decides to walk away from a job he’s actually good at. Because he’s lost confidence apparently. Hard to square that with his talk of being proud to fight in the trenches with Keir at the general election. When the going gets tough and all that…... People around Ed Miliband have been briefing that he’s urged Keir to set a timetable to walk away - unhelpful enough to say it - worse to leak it to the press. Ed is seen as a potential contender, I’m not convinced. A few weeks ago, he told the country he would finally break the link, the market mechanism that drives our energy bills sky-high in a crisis - the following week he announced the details and he did not break the link or even weaken it. Ed misled the country in my view and the Prime minister. Keir's top team should be standing behind him right now - and not with knives in their hands. How about some policy ideas? This whole leadership circus is a massive distraction from the job, not just at a time of global crisis but at a time when the people of Britain are making clear they want more change, they want to feel the change in their lives. The answer to that, some seem to think - is to have a new leader. That’s a delusion and often enough a conceit, sold to us on the premise it’s in the national interest or the party’s interest - when the truth is much closer to home. Labour has a job to do and a mandate to do it. Let’s get on with it.Dale Vince: Odd story - Goldman Sachs warns Starmer…
Odd story - Goldman Sachs warns Starmer risks pushing borrowing costs up (by hanging on) - while borrowing costs actually fall, because Starmer refuses to quit. He has a mandate, the fact that he’s unpopular right now is not a reason for him to quit, it’s a reason for him to do better, much better - and deliver on the promise the electorate bought into. Global events have not helped, but mistakes have also been made - meanwhile there are big obvious changes to be made. We've seen the fake announcement of breaking the link from Ed Miliband - how about actually breaking the link and bringing energy bills down. Easy to do, number one on my list. Tax system re balancing, housing market reform - both desperately needed - and a ban on political donations. New Babelfish edition on that out next week.Dale Vince: The key part of this...
The key part of this story is in the second line -”according to lobbyists”. Only last summer the government announced £500m for this sector, they want more. £20 billion of private money is “desperate” to invest they say - what’s stopping them? They want more public money. Will 20k jobs really be lost by 2030 or is the story here that 20k jobs could be created. The main issue with Hydrogen is how un economic it is to make, that’s why it’s not taken off in any major way anywhere in the world yet. That’s if you make ‘green hydrogen’ as opposed ‘brown’ which comes from fossil fuels. The Hydrogen Economy was a thing of great hype 10 years ago. It might take another 10 to really get going. We don't need to rush to be ""world leaders”, better technology is coming, the economics will get much better - there’s no need to waste more money on this right now. https://thetimes.com/uk/politics/article/ed-miliband-energy-department-delay-hydrogen-strategy-xvn8zkq7qDale Vince: Operation Epic Bullshit will never end…
Operation Epic Bullshit will never end. Hostilities are already over according to Trump, the straight is already open according to Trump. Does he know that the straight was open before his blunder war - or that Iran was in a nuclear agreement before he cancelled it. He’s asking now for two things the world already had, until he came along. But watch him try claim the glory for getting them back. Have a feeling though he won’t be able to get one of them - the Straight of Hormuz will never be open as it was.Dale Vince: The biggest tax increase in British history…
The biggest tax increase in British history is being done by stealth. Since the Tories froze the annual tax free allowance in 2021, instead of raising it in line with inflation, 2 million more people have been dragged into the income tax bracket - raising nearly £100 Billion. That’s shocking. If this government won't or can’t remove this new tax burden from the poorest among us, they should introduce a tax at the high end of wealth - to be fair. They could raise £26 Billion a year, a very similar sum actually to the income tax stealth move - and it would be super fair, a tiny 2% tax on wealth above £10 million. It’s wrong to place the burden only on those at the lowest end of earnings and wealth. I want to live in a fairer country, for that we need a fairer tax system. We need to reform the one we have. It was written by people with money for people with money, at 3,000 pages long it’s ten times that of other nations - because it’s chock full of exemptions and loopholes.Dale Vince: The biggest tax increase in British history…
The biggest tax increase in British history is being done by stealth. Since the Tories froze the annual tax free allowance in 2021, instead of raising it in line with inflation, 2 million more people have been dragged into the income tax bracket - raising nearly £100 Billion. That’s shocking. If this government won't or can’t remove this new tax burden from the poorest among us, they should introduce a tax at the high end of wealth - to be fair. They could raise £26 Billion a year, a very similar sum actually to the income tax stealth move - and it would be super fair, a tiny 2% tax on wealth above £10 million. It’s wrong to place the burden only on those at the lowest end of earnings and wealth. I want to live in a fairer country, for that we need a fairer tax system. We need to reform the one we have. It was written by people with money for people with money, at 3,000 pages long it’s ten times that of other nations - because it’s chock full of exemptions and loopholes.Dale Vince: Well, class A delusional…
Well, class A delusional - who else ever thought he was a nice guy….:) Oh and Iran had signed a non nuclear deal, which Trump broke. And have repeatedly offered another - until the latest sneak attack during negotiations, by the US led by Israel. If they, Iran, end up with a nuke we’ll all have Trump to thank. If they end up running the straight or Hormuz like it’s the Panama Canal - we’ll all have Trump to thank. So much to thank him for, we’ll get tired of thanking him..:)
21, April
Dale Vince: What’s interesting in this story...
What’s interesting in this story is that 'UK and European stocks lost billions’ in the last week after the government announced it was going to ‘break the link’ - presumably now the detail is out and it’s not actually breaking this link - stocks will rebound in value. That tells us all we need to know - real breaking of the link would have been bad for big business - this mere weakening of it is just bad for consumers - same as it ever was.
17, April
Dale Vince: Labour appears to be getting serious…
Labour appears to be getting serious about ‘breaking the link’ - this is the single biggest thing they can do to tackle energy bills in this crisis and beyond. The benefits are huge, in the last crisis this link cost the taxpayer £70Billion. I wrote this for the FT a few months ago - and have been sharing the numbers with DESNZ and the Treasury for some time.
15, April