Youtube activity of "the other Andrew" (@theotherandrew5540) on "Richard J Murphy" channel.
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Commenter name
the other Andrew
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Commenter name id
@theotherandrew5540
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"14 questions Keir Starmer needs to answer about growth"
"2024 was an extraordinary year"
"2024 was hard, exciting and worthwhile How was yours?"
"A cappuccino is the perfect metaphor for the mixed economy"
"All I want for Christmas is a new political vision"
"Almost a quarter of young people are dissatisfied with their lives in the UK. Why is that?"
"Am I far left?"
"Am I your problem, Kemi Badenoch?"
"Are drug companies putting profits ahead of curing people?"
"Are the UK’s politicians frightened to stand up to wealth?"
"Are the rich going to leave?"
"Can democracy survive the amounts Musk can spend on politics?"
"Can we afford the welfare state?"
"DeepSeek is not just shaking up AI – it’s also shaking up US capitalism"
"Did Keir Starmer really win?"
"Do you care? That’s the political question for 2024"
"Economic growth? Forget it."
"Economics can be defined as a noun and a verb – and right now they are very different"
"Elon Musk hasn’t got a clue how government is meant to work"
"Elon Musk says empathy is threatening civilisation. He’s wrong. He is that threat."
"Energy price rises are due to regulation that favours companies, not people"
"Far right politics remains the choice of a small number in society"
"Fire and flooding are making houses uninsurable Will this crash the housing market"
"Freeports are dangerous"
"GDP records everything but the things that really matter"
"Google is a monopolist"
"Governments can’t have block holes, whatever ministers might say"
"Governments don’t borrow from financial markets"
"Growth has disappeared – so what is Rachel Reeves going to do now ?"
"Has the drive towards sustainability ended?"
"Have high interest rates created the risk of a crash?"
"How late is too late?"
"I can't wait for the 5th of July"
"If ministers don’t believe in government it can’t work"
"If the government wants growth it should be taxing wealth"
"In political terms the opposite of hate is not love, but care"
"Interest paid on government debt increases private wealth"
"Is Keir Starmer a worse Prime Minister than Liz Truss?"
"Is Labour planning to do PFI again?"
"Is Labour ready to govern?"
"Is Labour spiteful?"
"Is Scotland next on Trump’s shopping list, after Greenland?"
"Is Trump mad or bad Or could it be both"
"Is Trump using legal threats to close down debate?"
"Is democracy the best way of choosing those who govern us?"
"Is £90,000 a year a middle class income?"
"Isn’t it rational to be anxious in a world that’s failing us all?"
"It looks like Trump is MADA – Making America Dysfunctional Again"
"It’s St Stephen’s day today and he was really very awkward"
"It’s time to bring the Bank of England back under government control"
"Keir Starmer says he wants a bonfire of red tape?"
"Keir Starmer: the anti democrat"
"Keir Starmer’s new defence spending plan makes no sense"
"Keir Starmer’s ‘vision statement’, delivered this week, was anything but that"
"King Donald should take a lesson from King Canute"
"Labour could change our libel laws"
"Labour could change the UK for (almost) nothing"
"Labour could deliver fixed rate mortgages for the life of a loan"
"Labour could end no fault evictions"
"Labour could start believing in government"
"Labour could take action against tax havens"
"Labour is a neoliberal political party"
"Labour is forcing people into work when AI’s eliminating jobs"
"Labour is not going to deliver"
"Labour isn’t interested in reform"
"Labour needs an urgent re set, because it’s failing"
"Labour needs to find its moral compass or it’s in deep trouble"
"Labour only cares about people who are earning or learning"
"Labour should be picking on tax cheats"
"Labour’s in a mess over ‘working people’, and rightly so"
"Labour’s plans for private sector growth could just as easily deliver a recession"
"Labour’s promoting growth using unproven and dangerous technologies"
"Land value taxation is not the panacea that its proponents claim"
"Let’s talk pensions…"
"Might we drop the dogma from politics?"
"Most people are left-wing"
"Nationalisation does not cost taxpayers anything"
"Nationalising essential utilities – like water – should not cost taxpayers anything at all"
"Nigel needs more MPs"
"Oh dear, Keir"
"Once markets realise Trump is serious about tariffs they will crash"
"Our politics has failed young people – and we need to address that"
"Pay rises for teachers and the NHS will pay for themselves"
"People are claiming Bitcoin is the new gold It isn’t"
"People standing for parliament should have to prove they’re competent"
"People want better government, better jobs, and lower interest rates"
"Politicians claim countries must be run like households, and that’s completely wrong"
"Politics is about ideas, not brands"
"Rachel Reeves has no story to tell in today’s budget"
"Rachel Reeves has to get her numbers right"
"Rachel Reeves is already making a mess of her Chancellorship"
"Rachel Reeves is hanging on by her fingertips That never lasts for long"
"Rachel Reeves really is clueless"
"Rachel Reeves would make a mess of any household’s finances"
"Rachel Reeves’ disastrous budget"
"Rachel Reeves’ increase in employers’ national insurance is going to cost the NHS dear"
"Rail nationalisation makes sense"
"Repaying bank loans destroys money"
"Right-wing think tanks are promoting charter cities, and they’re a nightmare"
"Saving in itself is merely negative"
"Scotland, Wales and Northern Ireland need better powers to tax"
"Should Russian money in Western banks be used to support Ukraine and its eventual reconstruction?"
"Starmer is failing and, like Farage, is seeking scapegoats for doing so"
"Subcontracting is the curse of the modern economy"
"Tax the bads Tobacco, alcohol, sugar, carbon, plastics"
"The Bank of England is driving the UK economy into recession"
"The Bank of England is fuelling inflation"
"The City wants an end to cash ISAs, and that would be a mistake"
"The House of Commons needs to join the 21st century"
"The IMF is worried about a low growth future when that’s exactly what we need"
"The UK’s housing costs are sucking life out of our economy"
"The UK’s precarious £15 trillion of wealth"
"The UK’s suffering from top-down political thinking. Do we need to go bottom-up instead?"
"The US national debt is going to skyrocket upwards under Trump"
"The far right is more popular than at any time since 1945. Why is that?"
"The far-right in the USA are trying to deny its tax authority the funding it needs to operate"
"The government's accounts are incomplete and out of date – so how can they govern properly?"
"The government’s latest accounts show its debt’s fallen massively"
"The government’s losing nearly £60 billion a year to fraud"
"The party is over"
"The rich don’t spend enough – and that means they shrink the economy"
"The rich won't quit"
"The rumour mill is working against Rachel Reeves. Is she on her way out?"
"The speech Keir Starmer should have given"
"The wealthy think they’re different"
"There’s no electricity or water for Keir Starmer’s planned investments"
"There’s nothing in a tax haven"
"Trump has declared trade war and people in the US are going to suffer badly"
"Trump is Making America Poor Again"
"Trump is a threat to developing countries who owe their debts in dollars"
"Trump is barring media he doesn’t like from the White House What’s next?"
"Trump is creating chaos Can we survive that?"
"Trump is going to hit the ground running this time"
"Trump is making words meaningless, and we must recreate that lost meaning"
"Trump is on the march"
"Trump is sanctioning lawyers who want to uphold the law . That’s wrong."
"Trump scares me rigid"
"Trump wants a crash to benefit the ultra wealthy"
"Trump wants to deny the US government the taxes it needs"
"Trump’s climate change denial is frightening"
"Trump’s programme is not going to deliver for the MAGA"
"Unless Starmer delivers in 2025, the 2029 election is over for Labour"
"Venezuela, the Weimar Republic and Zimbabwe prove MMT is true"
"Was Biden right to warn about the tech industrial complex?"
"Water or AI? Is that the choice we face?"
"We don’t need a wealth tax, yet"
"We need a carbon army"
"We need clean air"
"We need financial education in schools – and there’s a pot of money available to pay for it"
"We need to end our addiction to sugar"
"Wes Streeting really does want to privatise the NHS"
"Wes Streeting's dreams are going to be shattered"
"We’re entering the Age of Aggression – a new era in political economy"
"What am I going to do in 2025?"
"What are we going to do when water runs out?"
"What can be done to save Canada from Trump’s control?"
"What could the Bank of England do to support the UK economy?"
"What do you want from our videos?"
"What does Trump mean for the economy?"
"What does increasing wealth mean, Rachel Reeves?"
"What is an envoy to the nations and regions?"
"What is the point of the Tories?"
"What is the single transferable party?"
"What makes Reform a far right party?"
"What politicians need to know about decision making"
"What would Reform do about potholes?"
"What’s the challenge that Trump creates?"
"When it comes down to it ‘stuff’ doesn’t matter that much"
"Where does an extra £80 billion for defence come from?"
"Where is Labour going?"
"Where is the UK economy now?"
"Who and what are we defending in the UK It’s a question in need of an answer?"
"Who is asking the big economic questions right now?"
"Who is going to oppose Labour in parliament?"
"Who should Labour tax?"
"Why am I so worried by AI?"
"Why are people so good at their hobbies?"
"Why are the Tories talking about flat taxes again?"
"Why are you divorced from your savings?"
"Why aren't we talking about independence?"
"Why can’t Labour do critical thinking?"
"Why do Labour believe in private equity?"
"Why do governments issue bonds when they don’t need to?"
"Why has Rachel Reeves called in bankers to advise on the NHS?"
"Why have the Tories given up on climate change?"
"Why inheritance tax charges are really good for real farmers – but not for financial whizz kids"
"Why is Keir Starmer so obsessed with denying the free movement of people?"
"Why is Labour picking on pensioners?"
"Why is it that consumers are planning to spend less?"
"Will 2025 be a nightmare year for Trump?"
"Will Rachel Reeves' NI hike crush UK economic growth?"
"Will Starmer end our ‘special relationship’?"
"Will Trump deliver what he says he's going to do?"
"You can’t base macroeconomics on microeconomics"