Youtube comments of Terry Jago (@terryj50).

  1. Growth in the uk as well as the USA is all debt. People really need to start living within their means not borrowing and living on cheap credit.
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  2. 😂 new migration pact send them all to the uk lol
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  3. I’m a migrant in the uk and I am with him if people don’t want to intergrate and learn English. If they only want benefits they should go back
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  4. The rest of Europe has a lot of land and not the amount of people coming in each year as the uk does.
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  5. Issue in the uk is the government tops up rent, it’s the only country in the world to do so rather than topping up rent it would be better to have a rent cap. Of course rent will be expensive if the government is giving money to pay rents.
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  6. So inflation was dropping under the tories labour been in a few weeks and already rising lol
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  7. Pensions are nothing the two biggest bills are 219 billion to the nhs and 209 to the people on minimum wage and in work bens.
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  8. You cannot just drop rates look what happened last time. People spend beyond their means inflation is high. Cannot fall into the trap of 2008. People became to reliant on cheap credit. It forced house prices up even more.
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  9. What has it got to do with the government
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  10.  @Kurwajegomac  I looked at the real stats not the guardian or daily mail.
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  11. Labour do what I say not what I do.
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  12. Isn’t it funny everyone wants a decent pension, decent nhs and people to have unlimited benefits yet no one wants to pay tax
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  13.  @alis4650gls me too I’m from the USA and have a great job in the uk the issue with the uk is most Brits are too lazy to work.
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  14.  @MriduNeog-r3x the uk does not have a shortage of workers its people are lazy rather sit on benefits or work 16hrs so they don’t get benefits cut. While the foreign workers pay in for visas and the nhs surcharge get less than they get on benefits and still pay tax. It’s time to cut their benefits and get them working if they want to cut foreign workers.
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  15.  @Ukmongoose3  labour voters have already done the damage.
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  16.  @ASHEN_ONE_GAMES  he seems more of a Brit to me than any remainer. Who seem to hate to the uk.
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  17.  @new_fone_who_dis even the boat people are small compared to the people on uc
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  18. Oh look the lazy get more. While the rest of us have to pay more tax to pay for it.
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  19. It would suggest with Germany almost in recession and France on it’s why they are more worried about their own countries than the uk.
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  20. Wait isn’t Italy in that eu utopia thought nothing bad happens in the eu.
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  21. Remainers are going to cry about this
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  22. You might want to Google the figures of Ppe and the pay rise of 1.2 million staff when over 50,000 people in the nhs are on over 100k
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  23. No it’s people who have lived beyond their means for the last 20 years as rates were so low the avg Brit does not even have 400 pounds saved. But they have lv bags Rolex etc that they cannot afford all on credit.
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  24. cost of living every where is absured in California where I am from people earning 100k are living in their cars. issue is in the usa we dont have a gov handing out free cash to every tom dick and harry.
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  25. Yet it’s all Labour council who have gone under
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  26.  @Kurwajegomac  to see the real stats go to trading economics
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  27.  @Itoshimi funny so much culture that they leave lol
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  28.  @astroflyinsights  pick up the renters are they mad, most renters in the uk are on housing benefits and know the law they dont pay their rent even though they get it free from the gov and just spend it on rubbish and wait to get evicted which takes months as the courts are stacked up and move to the next place and do the same.
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  29.  @ASHEN_ONE_GAMES  it’s funny they hate the uk but don’t leave. Because they are all on benefits. The uk is a great place If you work. The issue is most Brits are lazy and would rather be on benefits.
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  30.  @goodlookinouthomie1757  because Poland does not spend billions on lazy people you work or you go hungry in Poland. No too ups for people who don’t work. They sure do not send billions overseas for kids who don’t live in the country.
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  31. The main issue here I can see are the people wanting a decent nhs and public services but seems no one wants to work to pay for it all. Far to many lazy people in the uk on benefits just relying on cheap eu people to do everything.
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  32.  @goych you think it’s going to be affordable if you drop rates to 0 again.
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  33. This is an easy one house them in the peoples houses that want them here
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  34.  @alandunwiddie9610  works out well if you are on housing benefits as the tax payer pays for everything anyway and the lazy just blame the government when they don’t get more tax payers cash.
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  35. Well they don’t want to be in France hence why they are leaving who the hell wants to be in France.
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  36. Issue here is the rates should never of gone to 0 in the first place. It forced people to borrow beyond their means, whoever thought the rates were never going to go back up are stupid, you really only should borrow what you can afford to many people borrowed to the top of what they could afford.
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  37. How is France and Germany doing lol
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  38. I wonder how she got to the uk did she swim. I hope she did not use a plane that uses petrol.
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  39. Atleast someone is standing up to these remainers. The uk left the eu when will they understand that
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  40. no the uk should not go for unskiled migration, the uk is finally getting pay rises if you have more unlimited migration wages will go down again.
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  41.  @mrharry448  I never heard of the special relationship until I moved to the uk it’s only British people who think there is one. To me the uk will just do what it wants anyway. The USA need to look after our own country to many poor people now in the USA.
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  42. Funny yet it’s labour councils who go under
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  43. funny they are leaving france for the uk why dont they just use the eu and go direct to ireland
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  44. The uk cannot return to the eu so why would it allow the eu to return to the uk.
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  45. Oh look you can have a free trade agreement without free movement or people when will someone tell the eu.
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  46.  @edwardbernthal160  the benefits system was a mess far before brexit. When you pay people to work only 16hrs you have an issue that came in in 2003 well before brexit.
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  47. the uk should stop all eu citizens claming benefits now the uk is not in the eu. only british citizens should be able to get benefits. EU people only take out never pay in.
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  48. Love weatherspoons why go to a greenking pub at 5 pound a pint when you can get the same beer in spoons for 170 a pint.
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  49. What makes me laugh is that people think a rate fall is the answer all this will do is force house prices up more. You need to keep rates up. People need to learn to live within their means. You need to build more homes not put down rates.
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  50. People should actually start working and stop relying on benefits. Who do you think pays for the benefits the migrants. We pay 2k for visas we pay the nhs surcharge plus tax and ni and get no recourse to benefits it’s time Brits got of benefits and into work if we can live without benefits and pay rent and food Brits should be able to.
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  51. Japan is a lot cheaper than the USA to live so the salary will be lower. You can have a great life in Japan. I had to leave japan due to the same reason though my Japanese is not good enough to get a job and my kids although half Japanese do not speak much Japanese as my oldest son is autistic. However I would love to move back to Japan, probably now after my kids finishes school in the uk and go to college then they can choose what they want to do. Then we’re move back.
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  52. the uk should focus on its own economy stay out of the usa
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  53. So you were poorer while the uk was in the eu. Funny every remainer has told me the uk was a utopia in the eu and we were all richer.
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  54.  @zccau2316  at least he pays his tax why Gary does not oh wait his left wing
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  55.  @grimaffiliations3671  since when did the tories run europe
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  56.  @gamingtonight1526  oh that excuse what will be the month after when it goes up again.
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  57. That’s funny and you lot want to be in the eu where youth unemployment is double that of the uk. lol
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  58. no they are lazy they would rather be on benefits than work.
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  59. People want first time buyers to buy home so if they want this they need to fall.
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  60. They do if you work.
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  61.  @timtreefrog9646  yep and labour closed almost every hospital where I lived and sold them for expensive homes, queen Mary Roehampton now expensive homes and a small walk in center, Saint ebbas closed by labour and sold for expensive homes, Horton hospital closed for expensive homes. Putney hospital closed for expensive homes by labour, Richmond hospital closed for expensive homes by labour, surbiton hospital now a gp surgery closed by labour. Why so they could move everything to Saint Georges tooting. Labour caused the mess and everyone loved them for it. Funny though labour go on about social homes had all this land and did not build one social home on them.
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  62.  @paulbo9033  but I can understand more than you hence why I can afford rates going up and still save, I can addled to heat and eat. Unlike you. What do you have 30 to 50k on credit cards a morg you can hardly pay even on 1% interest. Maybe learn to live within your means.
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  63. I agree for us savers, people need to learn to live within their means. Stop getting debt.
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  64. Funny how it’s not racist when the eu do it
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  65. As an American why don’t you have freedom of movement with the USA. Yet you expect the uk too.
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  66. when this country was an empire people worked now they expect money for nothing
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  67.  @richardthelionheart5072  I have see some who do the issue is the woke in the uk hate England. I’m Japanese and I really don’t understand how people can hate their country so much.
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  68.  @juliegilfoyle6886  murder they know what they are doing
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  69. @ why is the population going to grow it need to to pay for the 900k a month being signed off work forever. Brits need to get working.
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  70. @ I am the same as you I live within my means, to me I think all these people should they always blame the government for everything and want rules like this but never live within their means live pay check to pay check buying crap they don’t need and then blame everyone else for their problems.
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  71. Yep there would be even more on benefits living on the few people who work.
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  72.  @machidaman  that’s funny the uk has been out of the eu since 2016 and still gdp is higher than France lol.
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  73. Why do they need to it’s been 70 years who cares who from today is alive to have done these things oh wait very few it’s time people moved on.
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  74. What makes me laugh is germany falls 0.2% and uk gdp increases by 0.1% and it’s the uk that is the sick man of Europe. People really need to wake up and see what is happening.
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  75. Don't tell lies it's only happening in the uk due to brexit lol
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  76. Why is it always the USA and uk protecting the waters really time for the eu to step up they want to trade yet don’t want to protect shipping.
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  77.  @Pinkdam if Britons strike your need more migrants to pick up the little jobs the few Brits who work do.
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  78. These people should have their benefits cut to pay for the pensioners.
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  79. That’s Germany they took in 2 million
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  80. Good for us savers inflation 2% and rates 5% we’re making 3% on our savings at last.
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  81. Who will you want mass migration, you want more people than we can build homes you want low house prices the only way to get these is either to put up rates to stupid levels, which makes landlords get out of the market or to build more homes than we have people coming in to the market each year. No one wants to work in the uk in building so it means you need to import more people which means even less homes as you cannot build homes in a few months it takes years. The issue with house prices is supply and demand but if you talk about this you are a racist. I’m American I came into the uk compared to America prices are much cheaper than the big cities in the USA the rates are lower in the USA our mortgage rates are now 8.5% and rising. People need to make up their mind on what they want mass migration or cheaper homes.
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  82.  @jx2729  so let me get this straight you hate brexit so much that you you moved from one independent country to another that don’t allow fom. Can’t make it up surely if it’s about brexit you would of moved to the eu. You know the place that you loved so much and allows all the freedoms to another country that does not. If you hated brexit so much why did you move so far from the eu surly you would of moved to the eu. Not a country on the other side of the world where you have to move on a visa like the uk and require an English test. And surely not to one the uk has copied for its immigration policy. So again you love the eu so much that you moved 20000 miles away from it lol I think Brexit Britain as done well to get rid of you and the eu too shame the Aussie have you now though. Hopefully your there to work and not claim the dole.
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  83. The thing the uk has that Italy does not is migration. Even though Italy has fom it has little to no jobs to offer high unemployment. The uk does not have this and still people want to migrate to the uk.
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  84.  @angelachanelhuang1651  they are too thick to leave who will give them visa
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  85.  @larslarsen5414  to many people came to the uk over night forcing wages down. Since the uk has left the eu wage growth is now at 6% higher than almost all the eu countries.
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  86. Never underestimate the minority
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  87. Maybe try using the health care system in Spain or Italy.
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  88.  @alexbetts8291  still don’t understand what it has to do with the tories it was labour voters who voted for this.
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  89.  @adrianbetts2499  everyone wants free things in the uk. Why not they have learned from the Brits. It’s funny in the uk how everything is free and no one wants to pay for anything.
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  90.  @raymondelliott2280  seems the eu is so great even the migrants are leaving it for the uk got to tell you something about the eu.
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  91. @ronjones8696 it has to as only 100 billion is spent on pensions where as 209 is spent on the lazy who won’t work.
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  92.  @kevinsyd2012  do you think the lazy will invest in a pension they want something for free
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  93. @ the issue with the uk is people have got lazy for the last 20 years, I’m In skilled work and there is not one British person in the office. You really have to ask yourself why that is, most people are Aussies, kiwis, Americans Japanese, South Africans not one Brit. The same with most skilled work these days in the uk. People lost the will to work proper jobs they would rather work minimum wage work for in work bens, do Mickey mouse degrees. Really you cannot grow an economy by doing that. 900k Brits a month are being written off work forever never to work again. Why is that.
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  94. @ there is no lack in my industry the avg person is now in their 40s when I started the avg person was in their 20s. People just don’t seem to want to do the work. That is why we have to import all the workers. Gov needs to stop the handouts and get people back to work. The other day we had people on benefits who were on a scheme for ethical hackers and none of them wanted to pass they were just there so they did not get kicked off their benefits.
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  95.  @PIOVRAME really than can you tell me why every top eu nation other than France is doing worse than the uk please United States 2.4 2 India 1.9 1 Brazil 1.9 -0.2 Mexico 0.9 1 China 0.8 2.2 Canada 0.8 0 Japan 0.7 0.1 Argentina 0.68 -1.68 South Korea 0.6 0.3 France 0.5 0.1 Spain 0.4 0.5 South Africa 0.4 -1.1 Turkey 0.3 0.9 Switzerland 0.3 0 Singapore 0.3 -0.4 Euro Area 0.3 0 Australia 0.2 0.6 United Kingdom 0.1 0.1 Germany 0 -0.1 Saudi Arabia -0.1 -1.4 Netherlands -0.3 0.9 Italy -0.3 0
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  96. Seems to still be millions in the uk. Hopefully they don’t get child benefits in Poland anymore because though.
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  97.  @arthurdixon5890  yet no one wants to work now hey there is not one Brit in the company I work in why is that if you all work. Every Brit I have met in the 8 years of being here is on some form of benefits and cry the nasty tories are not giving them more tax payer money. If you worked why don’t you tell all the people in your family to work. I don’t understand the lazy mentality of Brits crying they are so poor yet not doing anything to get out of it ie work. It’s always blame someone else.
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  98.  @arthurdixon5890  you cannot get government benefits in the uk if you are on a visa you are thinking of eu people.
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  99. Brexit uk inflation 2.3% eu inflation 2.6% Brexit growth 0.6% eu growth 0.3%. Remainers your all just crying as your all to thick to get visas to move to the eu. You had 6 years in this time you could have got 2 degrees and the skills to move to the eu that is doing worse than the uk. All eu countries have larger unemployment than the uk so can you tell me what jobs the eu have for you when they cannot even provide jobs for the 27 nations.
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  100. The left want them here the left should be made to house them
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  101.  @StennMathis  no the criminals are the ones bringing them in illegally. Charging them 1000s for a boat ride that might kill them. I take it your one of the guys bringing them in taking your kick backs. That is the trouble with people like you suggest they are welcome but won’t house them hey.
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  102.  @thekingoftheworld9553  you do need skilled immigration though people like me who earn good money and pay tax to keep the lazy eu and British people in benefits. People who can actually afford to rent and don’t need housing bens to pay for it.
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  103. What was funny earlier ed davey was going on about changing to pr. then the reporter told him his party would have less seats than reform and he shut up. Lol
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  104. @ I just posted it take a look at trading economics Germany is doing far worse than the uk so Is France.
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  105.  @joefortey4  got to love the excuses of the Labour voter I take it it’s all thatchers fault
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  106.  @goodlookinouthomie1757  not my country I am American, however, I can see what is happening but it will not change because the Brits love their free money. However, with this and human rights anyone who is not on a work visa gets everything free and go forbid this ends. The issue is it’s not free it’s the small amount of tax payers paying for it all. It will collapse in the end as at some point in time your run out of other peoples money.
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  107.  @user-Tortured-soul  that’s the issue with Labour and the people who think the tax payer should pay for them you will always be poor as you always rely on other peoples moneys you cry about things like the nhs but not one of you wants to work to pay into it. You always expect others to though. I love the nhs and think everyone needs to pay into it for it to survive the issue in the uk is that you only expect the top few to pay into it.
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  108. Got to love Brexit lol
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  109.  @fyank1  looking at my taxes I don’t see any money going to billionaires I do however see 300 billion going to the unemployed and people on In work benefits and 50 million going to 4 Bulgarians. To me the only people who should get benefits are the short term unemployed and the disabled.
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  110.  @BAmalakas  maybe check out eu youth unemployment rates
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  111. Best one no more eu people coming in on minimum wage and benefits. All now have to pay the same visa charge and nhs surcharge as me. That is a great win for the uk in money. 2k for visas and 640 for the nhs surcharge and no more benefits for eu people.
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  112. Move on and look to rebuild the country get the lazy working
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  113. @ that is too true I have lived all over the world and see this in the uk far easier to blame the gov or someone else for your issues than work hard to improve your life.
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  114.  @ashleystyles6888  although to me at this point I think the nhs should be private and we pay less tax as the lazy people of the uk expect everything to be paid for for them: time they found out what things really cost and stop blaming everyone else when they pay sweet fa into the system.
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  115. Who would build all these homes you talk about Brits would rather be on benefits than working
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  116. So even with brexit the uk is still above France lol
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  117. Funny it’s been going since 1994 can I ask what labour did about it when they were in yet they are blaming the tories most of these schools were built in the 70s under labour. Can’t make it up
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  118. Ni is part of the uk it should not check goods going into the uk.
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  119. Isn’t it funny how Labour and the libdems are not talking about changing elections to pr now
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  120. @penderyn8794 maybe live within your means
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  121. @penderyn8794 the poorest you mean the same people who cannot live within their means, get debt to keep up with the jones, then forget it’s not free money you have to pay it back. The best thing is not do get credit you cannot afford in the first place. All keeping rates down does is trick people into borrowing more they cannot afford in the first place. If you cannot afford to the debt, get an ira or a debt repayment plan. Don’t get more debt.
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  122. to me anyone who thinks france is better and still lives in the uk time for you to move to france.
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  123. I’m sure it was the same when the USA wanted independence from the uk. As an American we wanted our country so did the Brits. If they all thought like you we would no have our independence now.
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  124.  @markshirley01  in the USA we would not allow another country to control our immigration. We also for sure would not give anyone welfare unless they became a citizen and paid in.
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  125. No the issue is these days people have had access to cheap money for too long. My mom and dad has nothing. High rates, low pay, people lived on pigs ears and intestines. You ate what you were given. Growing up was the same for me. I got very little in the way of gifts at Xmas, one holiday a year if I was lucky. We had to wear hand me down clothes. My older brother was smaller than me. Yet I still had to ware his clothes. People these days want everything, want 0 rates and want to import everything on the cheap. Then when it goes wrong blame the older generation. It’s time to start living within our means again. Stop blaming everyone else for your greed. I am sure you will love them again when you get their homes. Maybe the boomers should sell up and spend all their money and leave your spoilt brats with nothing.
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  126. Importing too much if covid taught us anything it’s time to start making more stuff locally and buying local.
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  127. There are millions of jobs just no one wants to work
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  128. And 55% of the population on benefits
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  129. The work shy did that’s most of the uk unfortunately
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  130. @ it’s got to tell you something when they are risking their lives leaving the eu hey.
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  131.  @robblincoln2152 xenophobia against white people lol
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  132.  @niltonc.7333  can you tell me how Brexit is xenophobic now that eu people are treated the same as me pal.
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  133. This is why the uk is poor to many people on bens.
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  134. Yet it does not matter Ireland is in the eu and does not set its immigration policy the eu does.
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  135. Need to still keep rates up people need to start living within their means really rates should never go as low as they did.
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  136. the real reason is 22 million people are on some form of benefits the top 1% pay 50% of all taxation the top 10% pay in 99% of all taxation. Really you need to stop UC and get compaines to pay more and get everyone working, the only people who should be taking out of the system are the people looking for work, pensioners and the disabled. not people capable of working.
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  137. Maybe you should tell your fellow Brits to work then
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  138.  @AshSmash123  the uk was in the eu, this is one of the reasons why its good to leave the eu
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  139.  @pats3071  not really, when I was in oz on hmas penguin, there were alot of Brits as well as Americans on there. A lot of training by the us and Brits.
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  140.  @checker297  I know I was there with the Aussies, Brits and USA troops in Malaysia. We were helping the Aussies with training
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  141. What a load of rubbish I lived in Roehampton a massive Irish population there they are all on benefits living in the Alton estate shame they don’t all go back to Ireland.
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  142. What damage all I see in the 8 years of being in the uk is remainers are stuck in the uk.
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  143.  @PazLeBon  no far worse maybe try a visit to the usa please.
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  144.  @maximilianbeyer5642  that’s the issue because they always blame someone else rather than look to fix the issues why fix anything when you can blame a dead woman
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  145. Why would you want to keep paying for the lazy who don’t want you here they don’t relise that they might have to work one day when all the rich leave.
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  146. Most countries the same now I moved from Singapore to the uk before that was in hk, Japan and the USA. Most people living pay check to pay check in them all. People need to ask for pay rises simple.
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  147. the uk pays its 2% nothing to worry about
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  148.  @arnoldrimmer4025  that is rubbish if you check statistics eu the eu has 1.1 million migration this year for all countries the uk had 1.2 million alone most of the eu countries have minus migration they have more people leaving than going. Look at countries like Portugal now even with fom have a massive shortage of workers. Check trading economics for asylum applications to the uk and USA have the most. Applications. You really have to check the full facts not the guardian. Funny when uk population growth is 0.4, USA 0.1, France 0.2, Germany -0.2, Portugal -0.2, Poland 0.0, Ukraine -0.7. Uk seems to have one of the highest pollution growth. You need to check your facts. To house all the people who need homes in the uk you will need to build 340,000 homes a year for the next 20 years. Who is going to do that in the uk. If you had fom still that would need to go up to 370,000. That the issue with the uk. You blaim the government for everything have no real control over migration as you think it’s not the issue but have no plan how to build all these homes or where they would go. You don’t want to build on the green belt. So where do you think all these homes should go. Also you do understand that people who rent out are not all rich and need to pay their morgs on their rental properties don’t you do what do you cap the rents at without causing them to lose their homes.
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  149.  @janjakobglasmeier5198 can you tell me how Ireland in the eu is better off.
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  150. The difference is the rich understand living within their means poor people want so get into debt. You cannot grow the economy by keep living beyond your means.
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  151.  @garyfletcher1910  the whole world is going back to these days not just the uk. That’s the thing why I left the USA for the uk. Trust me the uk is doing fine compared to alot of counties in the world. I have not noticed any power cuts or 3 day work week in the uk. Well I’m still working 40hr weeks and can still get on to my company’s when do you have power cuts. Also not noticed any food shortages here or fat obese people starving yet however in the USA I have noticed people earning 100k a year living in their cars as they cannot afford to rent.
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  152. There won’t be one as labour will be in soon labour don’t build homes but bring in million of people. Supply and demand will increase house price as it did from 1997 to 2010. People think the tories forced the price up in truth when labour came into power the avg house price was 70k when they left it was 240k since the tories have came into power that has gone up to 294k so as you can see the house price went up far more under labour than the tories.
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  153.  @treyquattro  yet the use price went up 161k under labour and only 54k under the tories. Seems labour managed to smash the people far more than the tories even though they have been in longer. I think your also find under thatcher the houses prices decreased as inflation was sky high many went into negative equity. House price decreased from 1991 to 1997 when bliar came to power. There was a massive increase in house prices from 1997 to 2007 when the crash came in source all agents.
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  154. The big issue I see in the uk is that people want a decent nhs, they all want nurses to be paid. But no one wants to pay more tax. The nhs does not come for free. I know everyone thinks it does but it does not. If you want a better nhs then pay more tax.
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  155. Does not look like it from the boats in Italy and Greece today can you tell me why they are still landing
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  156.  @corneliuscornia3189  I bet they were claiming bens from day one of entering the uk.
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  157.  @barrybarry6592 seems that been in the eu is not helping Germany
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  158. Maybe time for Brits to start working then
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  159. I'm american in the uk loving the wage growth right now, I have had a 8% and 6% rise in the uk the last two years respectively well above inflation both times United Kingdom 6.5 7.2 Nov/23 % Belgium 6.33 9.03 Sep/23 % Cyprus 6.2 7.5 Sep/23 % European Union 5.8 5.1 Sep/23 % Norway 5.76 6.06 Dec/23 % Euro Area 5.3 4.6 Sep/23 % Ireland 4.6 4.5 Sep/23 % Sweden 4.3 4.2 Nov/23 % Spain 4.22 5.05 Sep/23 % France 4.2 4.6 Sep/23 % Finland 3.4 7.2 Sep/23 % Switzerland 1.8 1.8 Sep/23 % Germany 0.6 0.1 Sep/23 % Slovakia -0.6 -2 Sep/23 % Czech Republic -0.8 -2.8 Sep/23 % Iceland -1 2.6 Dec/23 %
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  160. Really they have their own I thought it was only the uk due to brexit lol
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  161.  @pvdppvdp6638  can you tell me when Greece over took the uk for gdp please
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  162.  @teddyboysdontknit810  that’s because the avg Brit is far to lazy to work. Also if that was really the case then why did so many eu people move to the uk. Far more eu people moved to the uk than the other way around. Again the issue with most Brits is they want the gov to pay them rather than their employer. The uk you can have a good life if you work hard the issue is most people don’t want to it’s far to easy to live off benefits and cry nasty Tory when they don’t give you more.
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  163.  @gloin10  growth rates for one year does not make a country better than another come back when Greece is richer than the uk you will find the uk growth rate is higher than both France and Germany at the moment. Does that mean the uk is better than them. Really I would not compare Greece with the uk. The only comparable countries in the eu that compare to the uk are France and Germany and the uk is higher than both source trading economics. To me it makes you a fool that you are suggesting that Greece is above the uk. Also the growth rate of the whole of the eu is -0.1 where as the uk is +0.1 so really it looks like the eu is not doing as great as you people think.
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  164.  @derin111  as a dual citizen of Germany is so great why don’t you go back to then time to focus on the eu for you then not the uk. As we want out of the eu and are out and not likely to ever go back in with cptpp.
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  165.  @ahsanurr4219  I take it you have never been around the uk.
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  166.  @lesleywright2823 laziness is nothing to do with the tories hence why it’s happening in the USA, Canada and Australia last time I looked they were not run by the tories.
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  167. I thought it was only the tories who put them in hotels
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  168. Isn’t it funny how uk house prices went up when Blair opened the uk up to the Eastern Europeans in 1997. House prices was going up 2 to 3% year on year before then and since 1997 it went up 10% year on year and people think mass migration and being in the eu is a good thing. Now the uk is out of the eu it’s going up 1% year on year now.
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  169.  @ranjithpowell6791  what a load of rubbish
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  170.  @julianshepherd2038  that’s what happens when Brits don’t work and you have to import all your work force to pay for the lazy. Then you don’t build enough homes for the lazy to live in.
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  171. The tax system is unfair when most people are on 16hr contracts they pay nothing in you need to get people working and paying in.
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  172. @ to me the uk needs to go down trumps way and anywhere with a deficit should have more tariffs. People should pay more if they want to import.
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  173. Really time for the uk and the USA to tell Europe to Foff. The eu really need to look after their countries.
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  174.  @jontalbot1  put bbc 2 on you will see my county 81 year old still fishing in the uk lazy people won’t do anything. But cry nasty tories not paying me enough.
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  175.  @jontalbot1  the other stupid thing your last labour gov did was give the rates to the boe. Dropping rates to almost 0 and getting to many people to buy homes was stupid. There is a program on bbc1 Britain’s housing crisis. That explains this. As I said because to many people could buy and then become landlords and the introduction of 16hr work contracts and topping up rents without working 40hrs was stupid and the only country to do this was the uk. This gave normal people the capability to buy not 1 not 2 but 18 properties.
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  176.  @swojnowski453  the issue is it does not matter who it’s given to it is still tax payers money topping up landlords. It’s still tax payers money paying for working people’s rent. This should not happen tax payers should never pay for anyone’s rent who are working this is just stupid you are bringing millions of people in to pay for rents the uk is the only country that does this. Of course people are going to come on low paid jobs get a home basically for free as the uk government pays the rent.
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  177.  @larslarsen5414  the poverty in the uk is due to all the eu people coming in and driving wages down. Also due to the amount of people who are work shy and would rather claim Bens than work.
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  178.  @scottrussell360  that’s funny when Germany has the same inflation as the uk and -4% wage growth seems to me that brexit is hitting Germany worse than the uk
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  179.  @scottrussell360  the uk does not need migration to go down it needs it to go up. The difference with migrants now they pay in. Eu migrants never paid in. Migrations today people now pay for visa and the nhs surcharge they also have to earn a decent salary and have no recourse to bens unlike people from the eu. That is the type of migration the uk needs to do away with.
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  180. Well the only way to get prices down which everyone wants is to put up rates, no one wants landlords so rent goes up. You get what you sow. If you want low house price you get High rents as the landlords get out of the market.
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  181.  @PaulJohn01  don’t tell the remainers in the uk they tell me all nurses come from the eu.
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  182. I bought after 3 years of living in the uk. I had to have 10% deposit around 35k had to pay 1500 for lawyer had to pay 999 for the morg and did a 2 year morg so had to pay 999 then did a 5 year morg. My house was 345k I don’t find the weather too bad here but I came from Singapore where it was hot all the time. So nice to have hot and cold. Don’t find it too expensive compared to Singapore. We go to Japan every 1 to 2 years as that’s where we’re from. I would say if you are going to move to the uk make sure you are a skilled worker, work in banking, finance, law, dr. Anything else not worth it. I don’t think the uk is that bad but I have lived in countries that I had a much worse life. I earn a good salary here too. There is a lot of crime in the uk but you don’t see it that much unless you are into drugs or something. I read about it but never seen it and I work in London. Go on the train to London and don’t see any issues. Other than the news. I think many British people blame everyone for their issues and that’s why they are doing bad. Japan has little to no benefits, people work. In Japan people starve to death if they don’t work. In the uk people on benefits are large. In Japan if you can’t pay your rent your homeless in the uk there are housing benefits for eu people and British people and asylum seekers. If your on a visa yep it could be a struggle but these days you cannot be on minimum wage on a visa. I think you need to earn 37k now to get a visa.
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  183. @ I am on well over 80k as I said I would not move to the uk unless your in law, computing, finance and accounting. The cost of living is ok in the uk as I came from Singapore. Where it’s far more expensive. The only thing I find expensive in the uk is train fares
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  184. it would seem the eu not doing much better
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  185. Time for the uk to just walk away from the eu. Need to get fully out of it no fishing rights for eu boats and so on get out totally then look at what the uk needs until then your never get a good deal.
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  186.  @raymondelliott2280  I would not care
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  187.  @raymondelliott2280  the exchange rate is going back up. I’m in Japan and the pound has not been this higher since 2007. I think you will find the pound dropped far more against the usd while the uk was in the eu. Maybe go revisit exchange historical values. That is the issue with remainers you cannot see what happened while the uk was in the eu. The uk does not need people like you it’s a shame the rest of the remainers did not leave with you but they are too thick to obtain visas to work anywhere else.
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  188. If it’s brexit why is it not moving to the eu. What part of the USA is in the eu.
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  189. if I was dw I would look at germany seems brexit is hitting germany more than the uk
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  190. Too many lazy people want something for nothing
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  191.  @Soraviel  100 billion is spent on pensions 209 billion spent on the lazy people need to start working. Issue is the lazy all want a decent nhs yet just don’t want to pay for it. The lazy want a pension they just don’t want to pay in for it: that is the issue I always see with the lazy.
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  192.  @Medicine91  no it’s all to do with the people who over spend money they cannot afford and then blame the gov for not putting rates down to help them spend more money they cannot afford. Stop blaming the gov and look at what you’re doing.
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  193. @ I want to know what is going to happen for the future of the uk, the avg person now is on minimum wage, 10,000 millionaires a month are leaving the number of higher tax payers are leaving, hence less taxes being paid in people are going to want state pensions but if your on minimum wage you pay very little to no tax in even the avg worker in the uk only pays 4600 in tax and 2300 in ni the nhs alone costs each person 4090 and welfare 5000 so this is not enough to even pay for the nhs let alone welfare so that leaves little room for the state pension that is not investing in its more like a Ponzi scheme. People when they retire as most pay little to nothing into their work placed persons. People think the economy is bad wait for the next 20 to 30 years.
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  194.  @Vroomfondle1066  no it’s you getting yourself in debt not your oppressors
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  195. Maybe where you live Surrey is nice
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  196.  @richardmell299  so they result in being lazy and claiming benefits rather than asking their bosses for rises they ask the tories aka the tax payer and when they don’t get it they call them nasty.
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  197. Coming from Ireland who love to kill innocent people maybe you should tell this to the ira.
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  198. @ratamudkatana7038from what I see of the eu they have all fallen in military power France has fallen off a cliff. Really the eu need to start spending more to be able to defend itself. Only the Brits spend the 2% and even they have fallen down behind the South Koreans.
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  199.  @zedeyejoe and yet are still higher in firepower than eu members. I think you will find so has France and Germany so not sure you can school the uk on that
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  200. If the uk did not have migration who would pay the tax for Brits to get their uc payments. We all earn over 34k a year pay 3 k in visa and nhs surcharge every 2 years pay tax and ni and get no benefits and can still afford to live in the uk. Brits are on uc and complain they don’t get enough free money.
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  201.  @johnbrereton5229  really a lot of people have have spoken to all think you have a special relationship. I think you are the minority
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  202. thats why it cannot be done with ireland lol the british gov has already said it wont execpt them until france take them back.
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  203. The real reason they do Mickey Mouse degrees no one wants
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  204. Anyone who stop the deportations needs to be put in jail.
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  205.  @u2blr  locals dont want to work
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  206.  @Tom-tp1jv  because no matter how much you hate the pound its still the strongest currency in the G7
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  207.  @snowman2970  yet the pound is still stronger than the euro cant make it up
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  208. yet its still higher than France in the firepower rankings so it would seem that the eu is gutting its miliatary more than the uk. military its a worry when South Korea over takes the western powers in rankings.
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  209.  @StennMathis  or do what the rest of us do and understand we can never change the system and if we want better lives work hard for it to you yourself out why you take from the tax payer all you are doing is becoming subservient to a system you cannot change and voting for one master who might give you a little bit more than another.
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  210. People wanted cheaper houses prices now they are getting them it’s now going to bring down the economy you really cannot make this country up.
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  211. They vote for Labour
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  212.  @brianhealy8462  he says on his phone or pc from Asia lol
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  213.  @noelpucarua2843  I am not sure that is up to the uk. To me it’s up to Ireland and the people of ni
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  214.  @noelpucarua2843  everyone I speak to in England wants to be independent and the nations to be split up. I think people are fed up of the union
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  215. what has that got to do with this this is the eu countries
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  216.  @JasonAtlas  the guy above mentioned the tories I was replying to his thread. Austerity is a stage every country goes through when you get into debt
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  217.  @christopherpackham732  I moved to the uk from Singapore 8 years ago, before that I lived in Hong Kong, Japan and the USA, I don’t find the uk is under paid I actually earn far more than I did in most of these countries. I guess it what you ask for. I think most Brits seem to be fine on minimum wage and uc. To me people like you complain about all this and think the grass is greener on the other side it’s not. Take that from someone who has lived and worked in many counties. I will leave the uk one day but for now it’s good for me. Probably when my kids finish university as they are now in 6 from and finishing their GCSE’s. But not for the reason you suggest the reasons that much British people are lazy and complain about salaries yet don’t want to get the skills to get a decent job it’s always us foreigners getting the jobs and paying in. While Brits cry.
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  218. I think your find there are far more Irish in the uk than Brits in Ireland. It’s a shame the 17 million remainers don’t leave let’s seem them out a massive strain on Ireland like you did to the uk.
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  219.  @paulohagan3309  I’m an American and even I know he was not English
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  220. Was just in Tokyo and the prices have not changed much in 16 years it’s so cheap now but I guess if you live there it could be worth expensive as wages have not gone up too
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  221. Wonder if he will be saying they when he wants his inheritance.
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  222.  @peterross4713  so they moved out of brexit Britain to the USA. Where is the freedom of movement in the USA?
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  223. Next needs to be krankie
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  224. No just because you are born in a country does not mean you get nationality to that country my kids were born in Japan and Singapore. One has Japanese and American the other only American as you cannot get Singapore nationality unless you parents are Singaporean. So no they did not make her stateless. Her parents country made her stateless.
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  225.  @garethhhhh  issue is you can get benefits up to 50k so in the uk you are worse off than someone on less than 50k even a family of 2 earning 40k each can still get benefits in the uk. So they can earn 80k and get benefits where as a family of 1 working earning 51k gets no benefits. So will be worse off.
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  226. Make them stay in linkers house
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  227. Stop labour voters voting twice
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  228. @ can you tell me what German and French gdp growth is please and wage growth compared to the uk
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  229.  @kurtgodel5236  I really don’t think Germany and France or Ireland can laugh at the uk your all doing poorly.
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  230.  @TrojanGoat-d9u  I am also only comparing the uk with Germany and France not the whole of the eu these are the closest to the uk in terms of gdp. They are both doing much worse than the uk. Uk gdp growth was 0.1 France -0.1 and Germany is -.0.2. To me I cannot see what you bought from the uk before Brexit as since the uk was in the everything closed to be made in the eu. The uk changed massively to just become a serviced economy. Nothing is made in the uk anymore. Ford in 2014 due to eu grants, closed in the eu, clothes have not been made in the uk for 30 years. So I don’t believe you bought nothing from the uk.
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  231.  @danganbeg7225  trading economics thick eu citizen is 0.1 bigger than -.1.3 I know your Irish but can you do maths.
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  232.  @danganbeg7225  Ireland economy is tanking wake up.
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  233.  @gamingtonight1526  rates have to go up again now due to labour lol. Love it
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  234. Don’t call in the army if anyone dies they should try the union bosses for murder.
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  235. Funny I thought it was all due to brexit why is it happening to the eu then lol
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  236. no they are all on benefits getting the cost of living payments
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  237. Poor old rejoiners keep telling me how smart they are, but if they were so smart why can’t they move to the eu without fom. I moved to the uk without fom and I’m dyslexic. Lmao.
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  238. Difference is a massive country with a tiny population, uk a tiny country with a massive population cannot compare.
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  239. I thought it was all brexit
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  240. Yet it started to happen in 2008 last time I looked the uk was in the eu
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  241. The only people who should get benefits are the disabled and people looking for work and the people who look for work should only get it for a few months max. Why the hell is the uk paying benefits for people to work 18 hrs and for unlimited amounts of time. This only allows lazy people to cry all the time the nesty government is not giving them enough.
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  242.  @narrgamedesigner2747  I agree they should be but the tax payer should not be paying for bad bosses. The company needs to fire these people, if companies are paying poorly then the government needs to step in to raise wages. The tax payer should not be topping up people.
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  243. That’s why the uk left, Germany running things
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  244. There seems to be one if your on benefits never paid taxes in your life.
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  245. So as no one voted for sir starmer seems the uk has another unelected pm.
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  246. Well if labour would of left the banks to fail you would not have these issues now. But instead they sold all the gold. Gave the bankers 1.2 trillion of tax payers money. Did not give them any more regulation or tell them how to spend the money and now we’re back to square one.
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  247. Not that bad seems more eu countries doing far worse than the uk
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  248. Why would Ireland care about the uk surely they should enjoy brexit the uk is moving away from the eu and Ireland can move away from the uk they hate the uk why would they care about trading with it anymore. They have a chance to get ni back to they should be happy about brexit. Uk should look elsewhere to trade and cut ties with Ireland. All the Irish care about is killing innocent people now they don’t have to do that anymore the uk does not control them the eu does. They should look more to the eu and not the uk.
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  249.  @Jebediahmosiah  not skilled work there avg job in my area is 60k no one on bens is getting 60k you are talking about low skilled work. thats the issue with the uk people dont want to do the right skills to get a decent job that is why they are all done by foreigners then they cry. the foreigners are doing the jobs they dont really want to do.
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  250. So the uk is going to get another unelected pm tomorrow
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  251. London want it. They voted for it.
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  252. Wait ending how can that be we still have brexit. Thought it can never end until the uk go back to the eu. Oh wait 15 years last time I looked the uk was in the eu 15 years ago.
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  253. GDP per head is meaningless to as you think everyone in Ireland earns 100k they do not. All this is just debt to grow.
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  254. Don't worry you will get all their wealth and home one day
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  255. Isn’t it funny though seems the nhs and the left wanted this with their calls for lockdowns and clapping.
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  256.  @ashleystyles6888  I thought it was already private according to the left.
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  257. The thing is this is everywhere I lived in Hong Kong, Singapore, Japan , oz and nz and the USA and it’s the same no where is any different
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  258.  @sallybutler1005  yet you can go on benefits makes sense, I guess thats the issue you get more on benefits than working these days.
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  259.  @aspie2901  so let’s all go on benefits no one work and let’s see how we all get paid hey. For me if I feel I’m being exploited I look for another job. I don’t go on benefits. It’s the issue with people in the uk now rather than work you cry daily and rely on the tax payer. If you feel your exploited look for another job ask your boss for a pay rise not the tax payer.
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  260. No japan had seen what people have done to the uk and USA and don’t want that there. So they only take in people who won’t do the things they do in the uk or USA. The Japanese living abroad have seen the people dumping their rubbish everywhere they have seen the crime people bring and blame on being minorities or poor. People come to a country for a better life but end up making it a crap hole. The Japanese only want the foreigners who can make money and pay into society not take from it.
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  261. skilled work actually pays well in the uk its unskilled work that is low paid. I have worked in Japan, UK, USA and Singapore and HK and OZ and NZ and my job actually pays more in the UK.
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  262.  @steveparker8065  the gdp might be over 3 trillion but the main issue here is that to many people do not pay in as well as some companies. Companies don’t pay well because they know the government will top it up. When you can claim benefits on over 40k a year there is something wrong.
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  263.  @steveparker8065  so the winners here are the big companies and the work shy who get everything while the middle income earners or thoughts who earn 1 pound over 40k lose out.
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  264. @Tom both are bad . Need companies to pay not the tax payer.
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  265.  @debb6393  funny that when everyone says they are the nasty party not helping the working poor. The Labour Party claimed that the tax credit system was effective in tackling child poverty, with, by their government's definitions, 2 million children lifted out of absolute poverty and almost 1 million out of relative poverty by 2007.[12] However, the subsequent Coalition government sought to redefine poverty so as to highlight "children living in workless households or those with drug-dependent parents", despite their tax credit incomes, remaining in poverty. Even with the previous definition, this government claimed that the existing tax credits system failed to "meet its statutory target to halve the problem by 2010 – despite the huge amount of taxpayers’ money spent on tackling it
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  266.  @peterebel7899  yet again most of the big tax havens are in the eu. Can you tell me what the eu has done about them and the eu keep giving the Swiss mass advantages in the eu. Can you tell me why if they hate tax havens so much.
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  267. @ to me if people think the eu is the utopia then leave. Why are they still here
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  268. @ anyone who hates the uk and thinks its poor really needs to leave. The uk should never of allowed unskilled migration that is costing the uk.
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  269.  @arghjayem  so are you telling me the british gov told the board to break it. if so where is your evidence on this.
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  270. Can’t see it still we have half of Europe coming in daily. Supply and demand still kicking in.
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  271. Funny how it all increased from 1997 when house price went up 10% year on year and while the uk was in the eu.
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  272. @Reno_Pro_ I really dont understand why the uk allowed this to happen they should of not allowed eu people to take benefits, isnt it funny how new eu people cannot get benefits they are not coming to the uk.
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  273. good this time the UK and USA should not bailout any EU country
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  274. Far to many lazy people wanting everything from the tax payer.
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  275. Why do people think the tax payer should pay for them to live better than people who work. Benefits should be for people who have lost their jobs through no fault of their own why looking for another job and people who cannot work with disabilities. If people say they are working and claiming then ask your boss for a pay rise not the tax payer.
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  276.  @rememberme3852  then why is every Brit staving and telling me how they cannot afford to eat and heat then.
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  277. Stop asking the tax payer for money ask your boss.
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  278.  @mikecook1537  to me if people want more money from the nasty tories and a better nhs they need to pay more tax not less
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  279. Got to be brexit lol
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  280. Really people go on about how we stole the kids future do we really want to save the kids if they are like this. Greta should be screaming at the kids of today dirty drop their rubbish everyone don’t care about the wild.
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  281. @penderyn8794 what the adults that are so indebt they cannot afford to heat and eat.
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  282. They are not cheap people on visas pay 2k a pop for the visa every 2.5 years they pay 640 for the nhs surcharge every 2.5 years and they earn enough to pay tax and ni on top of that to pay for your benefits they have no recourse to benefits until they obtain pr if you don’t want them get a job.
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  283.  @alioshax7797  I have lived in Singapore and I have much better living standards in the uk than Singapore I did have a nice condo with a swimming pool in Singapore but in the uk my kids get a better education for free in the uk than Singapore and I save far more money. To me if people hate the uk it’s simple leave. There are 5 million eu people in the uk they could all leave for the eu where you say they will have a better life.
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  284.  @alioshax7797  that’s the issue what you think is richer does not mean it you said Singapore is richer than France and the uk this is simply not true. They pay less tax, yep. But you have to pay 3k for a condo in areas like woodlands you have to pay 10k for international schools, you have to pay 50k if you want hip replacement. All these things you take for granted in your taxes in France or uk. The standard of living in the uk is great, I have never saved so much anywhere I have lived. Issue in the uk and places like France there are a lot of lazy people who rely to much on the state. When when they have great education system and unis where you only pay back once you get a job and work either through higher taxes or student loans. They work complain.
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  285.  @alioshax7797  as the saying goes the grass is always greener on the other side until you live there
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  286.  @surpriserakins9067  not alot more for the size of germany vs the uk Germany 23020 United Kingdom 17101
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  287.  @surpriserakins9067  the uk also has far more migation than germany has germany had 500k last year the uk got 1.2 million
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  288. No shortage where I live I guess the eu hates remainers. Lol they don’t want them to have food. I even gave away a lot of good fruit and veg on olio yesterday
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  289.  @ilikelampshades6 thing is if his house prices goes down then he will be in worse trouble people keep suggesting rates go down they will put house prices up even more. If you raise rates and build more homes he will go into negative equity
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  290.  @ilikelampshades6  the main issue with the uk is that most people don’t want to work. They know they get more on uc and the government paying their rent. They know when their mum and dad die they will get their house anyway so why bother working. If they do work they don’t ask their bosses for rises they ask the government for more top ups and if they don’t give them they cry nasty party. So the uk needs us overseas workers here to do all the jobs. This forces prices up even more as there is no one to build homes as the Brits won’t do it and the Brits won’t do the skilled work so really it’s a no win situation, soon your have to import builders as Brits just won’t do that work.
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  291. masters yet you cannot move country why is that?
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  292.  @rumcajs009  probably one of these British degrees in David beckham or Mickey Mouse. Or they think they can run the business from day one. We have had many of them apply in my company and it’s why they have to higher people like me from overseas.
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  293.  @jessicajones2144  yet I’m in the uk on a visa In a job and you cannot get one hey. Can’t make it up. I do love the uk shows you don’t have to spell to get a decent job. You just need the skills the company wants. It seems Brits concentrate to much on spellings than what a company really wants.
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  294.  @tancreddehauteville764  all they get is people that want to retire don’t really contribute and don’t create work. So the price of homes go up as they move from the richer countries, so locals cannot afford to buy
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  295.  @welshgit  nafta does not allow freedom of movement nor does it allow Canada or Mexico to control its borders. The eu controlled the uks borders so no it was not independent. The USA would never allow people to come to the USA for the sake of it. That was the main issue with the uk the uk needs migration like the USA but it should control it.
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  296.  @markshirley01  brown skilled people don’t come from the eu white people do, I think your also find brexit has not stopped migration. The uk had 1.2 million move to the uk this year alone. The difference is they pay for visas and the nhs surcharge now where as the white people from the eu paid nothing.
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  297.  @hywelfinden-browne1708  I take it you never saw Cameron go to the eu then before brexit and ask to control your borders and the eu said no. As an American even I know that.
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  298. @ issue is if people want decent services, benefits etc people need to work and pay in, services and the nhs costs per person are going up and less being paid in. Benefits now cost the avg tax payer 5000 and then he 4500 the avg person in the uk only pays in pay £5,086 in Income Tax and £2,034 in National Insurance that is the avg salary of 38k. So this does not cover bens and the nhs let alone pensions etc. then people wonder why cuts have to come.
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  299. @ look at all the job sites, also the last two offices I have worked in in the uk all we can higher is migrants as no Brits even bother applying and these are not low paid jobs. The average age of the office worker is now 47. When I started working it was 22.
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  300. @ you sound like you are if you think jobs are paying 1 pound an hr. What was your last job in 1980
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  301. Far to many lazy Brits now want everything for free don’t want to work and want 1% of the population to pay for everything if you continue this way you will have a health care system like the USA. People really need to stop claiming every benefit under the sun and start working. If you want a decent nhs you need to start paying for it.
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  302.  @notmenotme614 where the hell are you shopping.
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  303.  @notmenotme614 does your sandwich have coke in it or something
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  304.  @SwitchedDreams  that does not seem to be true they keep telling me there are more migrants here now than when the uk was in the eu. All these migrants are leaving the eu too for the uk can’t be that great if they are willing to risk their lives to leave the eu.
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  305.  @yetidodger6650 maybe try getting a mortgage then you won’t have to pay it
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  306. really can you tell me why Greece's GDP is smaller than it was in 2007 if they are prospering and why every top eu country by France is in negative growth please
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  307.  @edwardbernthal160  one thing I do know it will all coming crashing down as you cannot get the amount of overseas workers here to keep you lazy Brits on the bens and the 15% pay rises you want from the government to keep it all up. Either your government will need to make cuts or put tax up more. But who will come when the tax goes up. The issue here because you are to lazy to work you think the money comes from thin air it’s the tax that pays for your nhs and bens. Time to start working.
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  308. Are you telling me the super rich don’t take all the money in the eu. Can you please explain Ireland then and the super low tax for the rich
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  309.  @tonycook7679  what is funny is everyone who suggests they wanted to remainer did not vote for the only remain party which was libdems why was that. I remember their slogan bollacks to Brexit
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  310. 809.2 billion gdp don’t see that is rocketing
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  311.  @piptexas1967  I remember the liberal slogan bollaxks to Brexit yet it seems very few remainers voted for them. lol
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  312.  @Rosskles  tory I cant even vote in the uk
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  313.  @Rosskles  I cant stand the tories, I just think all people should be treated the same just because you think some white people are better than other people.
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  314. Damn brexit hitting Europe
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  315. His not sticking up for you he just wants more money for the union.
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  316. these people pay in for visas and the nhs surcharge and have no recourse to benefits so I would much rather these people here than eu people who did not pay for visas and the nhs surcharge and could claim benefits.
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  317. Funny I thought it was Brexit that made poor water yet it’s in the eu too lol
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  318. Damn that brexit hitting the eu more than the uk. lol
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  319. not true france is still below the uk 1 United States America 27,974 2 China Asia 18,566 3 Germany Eurpoe 4,730 4 Japan Asia 4,291 5 India Asia 4,112 6 United Kingdom Europe 3,592 7 France Europe 3,182 8 Italy Europe 2,280 9 Brazil America 2,272 10 Canada America 2,242
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  320. Why would they they have seen what they have done to the USA and uk.
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  321. Can’t see it especially now the uk is in ttp
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  322. It’s all paper money though they don’t have this in their accounts
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  323. @ everyone wants growth, people need to stop looking at artificial growth and start living within there means like they did in the 60s and 70s and 80s. All this growth is bad. People cannot see it all created by debt.
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  324. @ as I said you need real growth not growth by debt this is why your avg under 30 cannot afford anything as all the growth is by debt and as you don’t understand that I can see why you cannot afford anything.
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  325. @ people need to start living within their means again not on debt.
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  326. @ the other issue you have now is rates are going down again so that will make it harder to buy and house prices to go up it will also make more people to borrow more for what they cannot afford.
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  327. @ you do understand that no one has ever got rich on handouts you need to make your money yourself
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  328. @ that is because their parents were lazy and they become lazy all reliant on handouts
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  329. @ as I said you don’t get rich on handouts
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  330. @ stop buying crap you cannot afford on credit. Live within your means man.
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  331. @ they already took all the Russian money in the uk this title now goes to the eu who are still buying Russian.
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  332. @ haha yep and the same people calling for them not to get rich want more tax payers handouts to pay this rent can’t make it up.
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  333.  @user-kc1tf7zm3b  it’s also far more expensive than the uk.
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  334.  @user-kc1tf7zm3b  tax is also higher in oz than in the uk.
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  335.  @user-kc1tf7zm3b  just like I don’t live I central in London I live about 45 mins away like they do from Sydney, so comparing like for like with what I pay here.
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  336.  @apb2081  really maybe look at EU GDP growth compared to UK growth looks like the eu is doing far worse than the uk
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  337. Why because your unemployed and live beyond your means in debt. We need this us savers.
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  338.  @stephenconway2468 non eu migrants pay in for tax and ni plus visas and nhs surcharge eu people paid in only tax and ni and in many cases too benefits too. Non eu migration is far better for the tax purse as they get no recourse to benefits.
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  339.  @stephenconway2468  i am one of the lucky ones though as I earn far more than what is needed to stay here. But I do feel sorry for any Brit married to a non Brits person who won’t be able to bring their spouse back because of you racist Brits who worry about a few asylum seekers.
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  340.  @stephenconway2468  it seems you are one of the rare Brits seems not many around now. They seem to think all migrants get benefits when they do not they seem to think we all take our when we do not.
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  341. So all countries if you have a lot of money lol where really for work people go to Tokyo, London, Singapore and Hong Kong and nyc. Lol
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  342. That is the issue with the uk no one wants to work as you get to much from benefits and if you don’t get more you cry nasty tories.
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  343. Let’s see how well they all do under Labour not long now until they are in. No excuse then when they go under
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  344. Na it’s already gone worse than the uk lol 0.30 for wage growth and negative growth for the last 2 years
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  345. Think your find many British banks were in there too the biggest one was rbs.
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  346. Funny didn’t may turn away from austerity and the markets and the left had a go about it.
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  347. Got to love people bashing the uk yet so many eu people won’t leave the uk for the eu. The boat people are dying leaving the eu.
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  348. Because the uk took 6 million people from the eu on minimum wage and in work bens forcing wages down for years. Wage growth is finally going up now at 6% so it’s going to take years to go up. You need only skilled migration now.
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  349. Too many lazy people will only work in low paid 16 hr contracts won’t ask their bosses for rises but they will ask the hard working tax payer and if they don’t give them more free money they call the government the nasty party. So they give then they need to raise the taxes for the rest of us. The 2 biggest bills for the tax payer are the nhs at 219 billion and 209 billion for the lazy. Then 109 billion for pensions.
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  350.  @ridethelakes  that’s the thing with the lazy my tax is high I still work. The more that don’t work the higher tax will go to pay for the lazy.
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  351.  @eliakimjosephsophia4542  you mean 60 million people are eating like 100 million people its hard to find a skinny person in the uk now most people are the size of 2 or 3 people.
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  352. @Mr Kanaka gripe where all I have said is why the price is going up and won’t go down. Where have I said that I don’t want it to happen.
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  353.  @arnoldrimmer4025  house prices will keep going up due to there being more demand than supply, the demand now is coming from the growing population of the uk. The lack of house building, the lack of cheap homes and the shortage of land.
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  354.  @lawncare-4u849  don’t tell the eu loving brigade they will say you lie.
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  355.  @lawncare-4u849  lol
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  356.  @ageoflove1980  the pound performed badly in the eu too. In 1972 the pound was 2.5$ to the pound when we left it was 1.3 to the pound. That is a massive drop.
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  357.  @ageoflove1980  can’t go in spring or autumn I have kids. And my wife needs to see family. Going to Akita so very cool up there.
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  358. Well you moved to Japan, learn the language. Why do you think uk way should be put on Japan?
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  359.  @braxxian  when will brits learn you dont elect the pm in the uk you vote for your local mp if we know this and cannot vote in the uk why dont you,
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  360.  @rhodiusscrolls3080  what do you care as long as you get your benefits
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  361. The uk would have more affordable housing if all the eu people left. The uk has far higher migration does not build homes for all the migrants that arrive. This is why you cannot compare the uk to Poland.
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  362.  @TapOnX  you do understand that you cannot build enough homes for the amount of migration in the uk, the uk has 1.2 million migrants a year so the uk will need to build 500k homes a year to have the prices of places like Poland. Places like Poland get very little to no migration so again you cannot compare the uk to Poland.
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  363.  @piotrjasielski  your population is still 3 million smaller than it was in 1996 and you have a population decline of 1.98 each year stop talking nonsense while the uk population since 1996 has grown 11 million in the same time. You cannot compare to the uk.
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  364.  @piotrjasielski  time for the poles and eu people to leave the uk then maybe house prices might fall. To me I don’t live in Poland I live in the uk and I have a great standard of living in the uk all the people who have a bad standard of living tend to me on benefits and won’t work. I’m sure people who work have a great standard of living anywhere. I guess why the eu people are still in the uk as if the standard of living in the uk was so bad I’m sure they would of all gone home by now but they are all still here.
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  365.  @piotrjasielski  best countries for education level USA, Uk, Germany, Canada, France, Switzerland,Japan, Australia, Sweden, Netherlands. Poland nowhere to be seen. Really stop your nonsense
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  366.  @rolex0071  I thought the Irish hated the uk anyway so why would you care if they are out of the eu. To me coming from an independent country if the English want to be independent let them they need to find their own way in the world like many other counties have done in their time many counties left the British empire and their biggest markets to be independent the British have now done that too. Just leave them to it. Weather some think it’s right and some think it’s wrong it’s their choice.
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  367.  @aries6776  they also don’t have half the country taking out and are not lazy like the uk.
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  368. Wait worker shortage in Germany, I thought it was only the uk and due to brexit. Can you tell me why Germany with all of the eu there has a worker shortage.
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  369.  @elkpaz560  force them make them sleep on the floor or put them on the street and give the asylum seeker their home.
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  370. @CuteCuteCute-02to people on Benefits the two big spends in the country 219 billion to the nhs and 209 billion to benefits.
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  371.  @garyfletcher1910 no Germany is the poor man of Europe
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  372.  @garyfletcher1910  Brexit is not really over yet as the uk is still paying the eu when I got here the uk was paying the eu 1% of all taxation this year it was 0.6% once that gets to 0 the uk will be better off. I can’t wait for the day my taxes say 0 to the eu.
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  373.  @garyfletcher1910  the uk has actually fallen on the cost of living down to 27 in the world from 19 1 Bermuda 133.6 2 Switzerland 112.2 3 Cayman Islands 111.7 4 Us Virgin Islands 102.6 5 Bahamas 88.5 6 Iceland 85.7 7 Singapore 81.9 8 Barbados 79.4 9 Norway 79.2 10 Denmark 75.2 11 Jersey 74.3 12 United States 72.9 13 Australia 72.8 14 Hong Kong (China) 71.5 15 Canada 68.4 16 New Zealand 68.2 17 Guernsey 67.5 18 Israel 67.2 19 Austria 66.8 20 Ireland 66.5 21 France 66.0 22 Finland 65.5 23 Luxembourg 65.3 24 Puerto Rico 64.4 25 South Korea 64.4 26 Netherlands 64.3 27 United Kingdom 63.7 28 Belgium 63.0 29 Germany 62.7 30 Sweden 62.2 31 Isle Of Man 59.8 32 Italy 58.9 33 United Arab Emirates 57.8 34 Cyprus 57.1 35 Macao (China) 56.2 36 Yemen 56.1 37 Uruguay 55.3 38 Malta 55.1 39 Qatar 55.0 40 Greece 54.2 41 Bahrain 53.7 42 Costa Rica 53.6 43 Trinidad And Tobago 53.6 44 Jamaica 53.1 45 Estonia 53.0 46 Latvia 51.4 47 Japan 50.7 48 Brunei 50.5 49 Maldives 50.0 50 Slovenia 49.3 51 Taiwan 49.0 52 Czech Republic 48.6 53 Lithuania 48.4 54 Spain 48.4 55 Belize 48.0 56 Slovakia 47.9 57 Panama 47.4 58 Saudi Arabia 47.4 59 Croatia 46.9 60 Portugal 46.6 61 Lebanon 46.3 62 Guyana 46.2 63 Cuba 45.6 64 Ivory Coast 44.7 65 Oman 44.4 66 Senegal 44.0 67 Mexico 43.8 68 Kuwait 43.4 69 Hungary 43.4 70 Palestine 43.3 71 Ethiopia 43.1 72 Jordan 43.0 73 Mozambique 43.0 74 Poland 41.9 75 El Salvador 41.1 76 Montenegro 40.9 77 Albania 40.8 78 Chile 39.9 79 Mauritius 39.8 80 Zambia 39.7 81 Cameroon 39.6 82 Venezuela 39.4 83 Dominican Republic 39.0 84 Romania 38.8 85 Bulgaria 38.7 86 Armenia 38.6 87 Myanmar 38.6 88 Cambodia 38.5 89 Serbia 38.3 90 Guatemala 37.7 91 Honduras 37.3 92 Georgia 37.2 93 Zimbabwe 37.0 94 Thailand 36.0 95 Brazil 35.2 96 Fiji 34.8 97 Bosnia And Herzegovina 34.7 98 Moldova 34.6 99 China 34.1 100 North Macedonia 34.1 101 Turkey 33.8 102 South Africa 33.8 103 Ecuador 33.6 104 Philippines 33.6 105 Nicaragua 33.6 106 Kazakhstan 33.5 107 Sri Lanka 33.2 108 Mongolia 32.7 109 Kosovo (Disputed Territory) 31.3 110 Azerbaijan 31.1 111 Peru 30.9 112 Namibia 30.8 113 Vietnam 30.8 114 Colombia 30.6 115 Malaysia 30.5 116 Uganda 30.4 117 Iraq 30.2 118 Botswana 30.1 119 Morocco 29.9 120 Algeria 29.5 121 Russia 29.5 122 Egypt 29.1 123 Somalia 29.0 124 Tunisia 28.7 125 Ukraine 28.6 126 Indonesia 28.5 127 Bolivia 28.3 128 Argentina 27.8 129 Paraguay 27.6 130 Uzbekistan 27.1 131 Belarus 27.1 132 Nepal 26.9 133 Iran 26.9 134 Kyrgyzstan 26.9 135 Rwanda 26.3 136 Tanzania 26.0 137 Ghana 26.0 138 Madagascar 25.2 139 Syria 25.0 140 Bangladesh 24.9 141 Kenya 24.8 142 Afghanistan 22.8 143 India 22.2 144 Libya 21.2 145 Nigeria 19.3 146 Pakistan 18.5
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  374. You might want to check out rbs and it’s affect on the credit crunch in buying abn, all to become the biggest bank in the world for 5 mins. That is a Scottish bank and caused a lot of damage to the global markets and hence why it’s still part owned by the uk gov.
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  375. There was one black shogun it’s not like there were millions of black people in Japan. Today you can count the black people in Japan. There are few of them
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  376. To me all eu people who were not in the uk for 5 years after brexit should be made to pay for visas and the nhs surcharge and lose any recourse to benefits. They should be treated like everyone else from overseas.
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  377. its not increasing this is a myth, you are counting money in shares that were increased by all the years of QE if all this was sold tomorrow it was crash big time.
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  378.  @DrOktobermensch  you do know in April the uk will have the highest minimum wage in the western world.
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  379. Wage growth is much higher than most of the world too. Wage growth in the uk is almost 6% where as in Germany it’s -4.4%
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  380. The eu need fom so no the uk should not. This proves you can can have free trade without fom.
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  381. If you want to vote you should become a British citizen.
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  382. Yet there are 1 million poles in the uk and only about 100 Brits in Poland
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  383.  @williampatrickfagan7590  Greece gdp 214.9 billion uk gdp 3.131 trillion looks like Greece is well below the uk to me. Come back when Greece over takes the uk
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  384.  @noelryan6341  seems very cold in the eu right now with -0.1% gdp growth lol
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  385.  @Neil070  oh I forgot to add also Greece has not even caught it’s gdp from 2007 in 2007 it’s gdp was 319 billion it’s now 214.9 billion so it needs to grow lol. Looks like the eu doing so great hey. Uk not got it’s pre covid levels eu counties not even caught up to their pre-2008 levels lol
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  386. You can always send what you are getting back on your ni to the inland revenue nothing to stop you sending it back.
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  387.  @purikurix  I’m from the USA we live in the uk now as my job transferred me there. my wife is from Japan both far richer than almost all of the eu put together and to me it looks like the uk is doing far better than almost all of the eu too. Please come back to me when the eu catches up please. Although it won’t as most of the eu countries are 3rd world being kept up by Germany. France is not even on par with the uk. Also please come back to me when France over takes the uk gdp. It looks to me like most of the eu is below its pre 2007 gdp. It makes me wonder how anyone can think the eu is great when it seems to make counties poorer. To me if you live in the uk and earn a pound you spend a pound so to me you are no better off where you live. For me I live within my means so have been able to save anywhere I have lived. To me Japan is safer than anywhere and the people are friendly unlike the eu and the USA. Japan is very cheap to live to and many places inflation has not touched it so coming back to Japan for holiday is crazy cheap. I guess where you live really depends on what quality of life you want. Not sure I would ever get the quality of life we have in Japan or the uk in any eu country or even the USA now.
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  388. Now the uk is out of the eu. All the people will go to Ireland lol flood Ireland.
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  389. Yet they seem to care about the uk time for Ireland to trade more with the eu and stop trade with the uk. Time to stop the cta asap
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  390. Can anyone tell me how Ireland, France and Germany are doing look like their gdp growth is worse than the uk.
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  391. That is everyone not just teachers can you tell me when you have had above inflation pay rise please. I work in banking and have has one in the last 20 years.
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  392. They had 13 years of labour before and did not want them back.
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  393.  @michaelwang6125  that is the issue with the uk it’s become too socialist where it’s own people are better off on benefits than working. They have become to lazy and to easy to blame everyone else for their issues. Rather than work. They see working 16hrs a week as working and they see getting benefits as a right. They have lost their way and they think it’s due to being out of the eu. It’s not it’s because they are lazy and won’t admit it the people from hk here are doing well because they work. Homes here are far cheaper than in hk so buying a home with less morg and working hard you can do well. The Brits think a home should be given to them for free and if not they blame the foreigners for taking them.
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  394.  @stevenhull5025  they are not living in their means if they are in debt
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  395. I can see you are poor
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  396. rates in the uk should never of got so low after the 2007 crash, it was stupid. now they are back up to what they were in 2008 everyone is crying really dropping rates all it did was cause the brits to spend more on credit because they saw their mortgages come down, they bought rubbish they did not need on cheap credit thinking credit will never go up again. Really if credit goes down it must go up. People need to learn to live within their means. this means rates need to go up and stay up. People who live within their means should not be penalised for idiots who but Ralf clothes and nike shoes and Iphone 14s on credit.
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  397. Really the uk economy was on the way down in the eu. Last time i looked the uk was in the eu in 2009 not out of it
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  398.  @JimIBobIJones  maybe jimbob should try getting a job and stop relying on tax payers money.
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  399. That is strange as my kids have both their Japanese passport and my passport when we renewed recently they were told they can keep the Japanese passport until they are 21 then they must choose.
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  400. Funny last time I looked the uk was in the eu in 2009 and wages and the economy stalled. Wait I keep being told the uk economy stalled because it left the eu.
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  401. Why are the left not talking about him paying tax these Champagne socialists go on about the rich not pay tax yet they are the rich who don’t pay their taxes.
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  402. remainers still think eu people paid in more than they took out. really so glad the uk is not in the eu anymore.
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  403. People like Owen Jones want this they want the rents to go up and cause more people to be out on the streets. You lot fall for it.
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  404. To pay for the work shy if they worked then taxes would not need to be so high.
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  405.  @fl-ri-  migration does not depress wages now migrants are paid 34k a year or more now to get visas and pay 3k for visas and the nhs surcharge every 2.5 years have no recourse to benefits and pay tax and ni. The uk is not in the eu anymore so cannot hire eu people on minimum wage and in work bens.
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  406. Maybe learn a skill, remainers will think they can get a job and move country just because they were in the eu. They think they can get jobs without a qualification or training. If you want a tech job learn a skill. Learn sql, learn c#, python, f#. Learn ent framework or about servers, dns, networking, tcp, supernetting etc you don’t get a job by staying in the eu.
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  407.  @dragoonseye76  haha no racism in the uk more racism in the eu than the uk
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  408. Much bigger issue for the eu as they import far more than the uk does.
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  409. For such a food shortage all i see is obese people in the uk maybe they need a diet
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  410. funny remainers keep telling me that the eu has a tight border
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  411. Last time I looked the uk was in the eu 13 years ago lol so can you tell me what being in the eu would stop this when it did not the last time you were in the eu.
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  412.  @markwilkie3677  I am sure it would go well down. The English are getting sick and tired of paying for moaning Scot’s. I have only been in the uk for 6 years and I can see why. The English have the least spent on them and seem to pay for it all. Well there are 50 million living in England so you would expect that but really more money needs to be spent in England. In the USA where I’m from the money earned in the state is spent in the state only a small amount goes to the fed to run the country. This needs to happen In the uk. To me all the money earned in London should be spent in London. Nothing should go to Scotland. If Scotland wants to leave the union then it should be able to run on the money earned in Scotland only.
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  413. Well when 55% of the population take more out than they put in there is something wrong
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  414.  @smartguy9101  good to me you should pay more to import especially if the goods can be made in the uk.
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  415. If Brits worked rather than keep telling us we are taking their jobs then maybe the country would not need us. Brits keep telling us that they don’t want us here yet not one of them seems to want to work more than 16hrs. As they don’t get capped on their benefits.
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  416.  @ab-ym3bf  yes the uk is the only country that pays rent. Can you tell me what countries you think pay peoples rent. I bet you get your rent paid for by the uk government. So you have probably never lived outside of the uk.
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  417.  @jontalbot1  issue in the uk is not housing benefits it’s housing benefits for working people. This is forcing up rents as the people who would have paid less rents in the past can now afford higher rents. In the 80s uk rents were lot paid for working people only the unemployed. Paying working peoples rents has only been in since 1997 since then house price in the uk went up 10% year on year. Before that it was most like 2 to 3% year on year.
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  418.  @jontalbot1  I have worked in economics in banking for the last 30 years so I think I understand more than you do. I have worked in nyc, Singapore, Tokyo, Hong Kong and London all in economics and banking for rbs, dkib, citi, jp Morgan and ufj bank so yep I understand economics.
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  419.  @jontalbot1  that is just one of the issues in the uk. As I said the biggest issue is paying working people including eu peoples rent. The uk is the only country in the world to do this. Why do you think so many eu people came to the uk especially from the Eastern European countries. The uk was the only country to let them in and the only country to give them the same benefits as uk people.they would not of come if the uk did not give them council homes as paid them benefits now would they.
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  420.  @jontalbot1  the funny thing is British people still want to be in the eu. Fom and 5 million people coming in in a short time is madness. The problem the uk has now is you will never be able to build the millions of homes you need at the rate people are coming in so you need to do something else to control the rents. There are still 1.2 million people coming to the uk each year people like me. The difference is atleast we pay for the nhs surcharge and are skilled workers the uk needs. The issue with the eu people they were not skilled people tended to be on minimum wage and topped up on benefits. They were the builders the uk needed they were not the drs the uk needed they tended to work in hospitality.
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  421.  @swojnowski453  no it does not hence why so many people on housing benefits don’t pay their rent. It used to pay direct to land lords now with uc it pays to the tenants.
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  422. Eu people can still come the issue is they are too uneducated and cannot afford the 2k for visas and 640 for the nhs surcharge they cannot earn the money. To pay for this. The uk does not need people to work for minimum wage and in work benefits they have the Brits to do this.
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  423.  @countfosco8535  I would much rather the workers down india and Pakistan they pay In for visas and the nhs surcharge and have no recourse to benefits unlike the eu workers.
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  424.  @scottrussell360  only to remainers who lost their fom.
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  425.  @scottrussell360  uk real wage growth is Wage Growth 6.10 percent so again looks like brexit hitting Germany more than the uk lol
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  426. Not sure why everything keeps saying kicking the Brits out we were Brits.
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  427. Yet your commenting on a Brexit channel lol
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  428. Funny most of the fishing industry was killed off in Grimsby while the uk was in the eu. Watch skint Grimsby.
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  429.  @paulnewman2000  because it takes time for the rules to change. The eu every year from now on will get less fish as per the quota going down. They did not stop eu boats fishing uk waters from day one. This will reduce year or year. I mean remainers are thick but I did not relise you were that thick. Did you think they would reduce eu quotas to 0 from day one.
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  430. funny they flee france to the uk and the uk to ireland why dont they just use the eu and go direct to ireland
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  431.  @Jabberstax  that’s good as long as they leave the uk.
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  432.  @derekc6445  that’s the issue to many lazy people in the uk 55% now taking out more than they pay in. And the lazy people still hate it.
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  433. funny I keep getting told the eu is all ok and that its only the uk affected and its all due to brexit
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  434. Funny since the uk left the eu salary is actually going up not down.
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  435.  @Arklysirzirgas yep but the white workers are skilled cannot get benefits etc. don’t work illegally like the white workers here
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  436. 50 million pounds really
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  437.  @CastleHassall  these people got far more than the lords get 50 million that is 80k per week
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  438. they dont get 80k per week unlike your eu mates
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  439. Governments cannot go bankrupt they especially ones who can print money.
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  440. Need to keep rates up people need to learn to live within their means. Rates should never drop as low as they did.
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  441. Because more and more people are cheating taxes and more and more people are reliant on the state for handouts. It’s all to make the few richer. Companies have worked out that if the government tops up people they don’t have to pay as much and it’s not the companies that get the blame but the government. People don’t go after companies they vote in the government so if the government gives them less in handouts they will attack the government and vote them out for a government that gives them more. So sooner or later you will run out of other peoples money. This is the race to the bottom and no one understands it.
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  442. Biden hates America too that’s why there are so many working and living in their cars as they cannot afford to rent
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  443. Most countries are not having a good year not much laughing anywhere at the moment
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  444.  @lifestylebypete  if you ever get the chance to go to Singapore or Hong Kong or the USA you will see why I’m happy with the prices here. Also I think you probably compare the prices in the eu counties with the pound when you earn the local currency you probably won’t think the eu is cheap also. Issue is inflation everywhere is high. I went to Bulgaria and Italy recently and yep Bulgaria is cheap in Sofia, but it can also be just as expensive as the uk I found a craft beer place and a burger shop that was just as expensive as anywhere in the uk. But then I found bars that were half the price of Wetherspoon. But when I found out what coworkers earn there I’m like how can you afford this. I guess only good thing there is the house price. Some paid 5k or so for a house. Italy too was crazy prices. Really cannot see how locals afford it the same as Spain I can see why they want to kick out all the tourists.
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  445. @ the thing is I do a lot of the people around me rent etc the person accords the road from me is a pensioner in his 70s never bought he pays 1300 for his rent I pay 1100 for my morg. I always ask him why he did not buy. He did not think about it was his response. I look at the last time my home was sold it was 50k when I bought it it was 345. You think because I was able to buy and I earn a decent salary I don’t see poverty. I’m comparing it to Japan, Singapore, Hong Kong and the USA all places I have lived and the uk is not as poor as the poorest people in this countries. Yep all the crime I see is due to poverty which leads people to drugs. A lot of the people around where I live smoke drugs daily you smell it in the street they all say they are poor. Yet can afford drugs. I don’t live in a mega rich area as you can tell by my house price in zone 6 but I was able to buy.
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  446. @ you also cannot move your the uk anymore on a visa if you earn less than 37k so not sure anyone coming in now will ever be on as low as 30k unless they come in illegally or aslyum. So cannot really compare to the old days of the uk when you could get a visa on 18k I guess also from my time being in the uk 30k in London is probably not good but 30k up north will be a massive salary from what my neighbours say.
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  447. @ why are the people who live in these towns also. I think a lot of the uk issues stem from up bringing. Starts from school. I went to school in Japan. You clean the floors, you serve your own food, both my kids go to local school so we go school with the same kids who rent vs the people who own. My kids do well as we can help. The parents who cannot don’t help. My son is friends with many of the kids who are not doing well and wants to help them. Issue I see is when the parents are on benefits the grand parents were and then their kids will be that probably needs to change in the uk. You can see what jobs pay the best salaries in the uk via LinkedIn etc. when my kids go to uni they will have the pay the international fee, uk and eu people will have that as student loans so my high salary won’t help them as much as local students in the same houses as me they will have a better chance if they take it. I do fear for the mentality of people in the uk. I do think the uk would be good to pay for people to go to places like Japan, USA etc so see what it’s like when you have no safety net and still see if the life is as bad as people make it out here.
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  448.  @adrianbetts2499  why would they defend the border remainers keep telling everyone the uk needs migration
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  449.  @BigBirdCEO  really can you tell me how many people on 16hr working weeks paying tax please all these low life’s are taking out benefits like housing benefits, and so on you all expect the rich to pay for everything while paying nothing in yourself you are all hypocritical idiots. You expect everyone earning 50k and about to pay for you. As these are the people who get nothing out. Nothing is free if you earn over 50k if you earn under this everything is free as you get more back in tax by the hard working people than you pay in. What makes me laugh is you says it’s expensive if you earn 30k a year you don’t even pay in enough to cover your nhs for the year yet you will get back child bens, housing bens, working tax credits etc.
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  450.  @OAPHarmerHerrStarmler  most people in the uk pay no tax because they are lazy. They work 16hrs and take. If you want better benefits and a better nhs work. Most of you want better services but don’t want to work you only want the top 10% to pay for everything.
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  451.  @kenrehill8775  yet they are not intelligent hey as they cannot move on visas
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  452.  @samanthalewin6210  been in the uk now for 6 years I don’t see many Brits working but I do see them complaining about the nasty tories not giving them enough free money from the few who do work.
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  453. No you will need to put rates to 15% and build 4 million homes a year for prices to fall. Supply and demand in the uk is too much. 1.2 million people coming in a year and only 300k homes built is not enough.
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  454. Is there a British car industry that has been killed off since the 70s
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  455. They are too thick to leave the country so no. Who will hire a bunch of thick idiots on benefits in the eu.
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  456.  @ASHEN_ONE_GAMES  it is true it’s why you needed to be in the eu and you need us here to work to pay for your benefits most Brits are lazy chavs. Dirty and blame everyone else for their issues if they get less free money they cry to the tories and call them nasty. Rather than working hard or looking for better jobs or asking their bosses for rises they ask the tax payer.
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  457.  @ASHEN_ONE_GAMES  Brits really need to go to the USA or asia and see what happens if you are lazy and rely on the state. You will die.
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  458. Got to love Brexit hitting Germany more than the uk lol seems like being in the eu does nothing for ones economy hey lol
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  459.  @thepatriot4076  not really these days especially Ireland, Luxembourg and the Netherlands are all tax havens in the eu.
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  460. love it if negative GDP has helped the EU then really remainers have lost the plot, Greece has not grown past its 2007 levels lol
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  461. No it does not it is what the poor chooses that cost more. Normal people cook. We get food from supermarkets, there is so much cheap food if you know what to cook. The issue is the poor choose take out and expensive food from local shops or tesco local or something that costs far more. It’s not hard to learn to cook most people have mobile phones these days look on you tube and 1 pound meals so many of them.
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  462. I cannot see it labour believe in borrowing to pay more to put people on benefits. If you borrow in these times it will hit the markets and you will end up with more crashes like what happened with truss. So really the only way to pay more is to tax more. This will lead to more of the jams. Labour as much as they talk an about hitting the rich won’t as they are the rich also. The last labour gov sold most of the gold, the tories sold most of the infra and both borrowed so much to give to us bankers 1.2 trillion if I remember rightly so nothing to sell off no gold to sell off. So again leads me back to higher taxation. You won’t be able to drop rates if you borrow as this will put up inflation.
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  463. What you get for voting labour
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  464. Because the uk is better than the eu. Hence why remainers never left for the eu.
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  465.  @josephj6521 and the lazy on uc
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  466. @ I would suggest them to go back and really look at what they spend on everything what they have in their homes they never use. How much they have on credit cards and loans and what did they buy on them before the rates went up. But you know what they will still blame someone else.
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  467.  @dominickay5968  that has nothing to do with productivity the uk people still work most of the jobs.
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  468. @ that is what people keep voting for. To me if you keep voting for people who don’t care about you that is what you will get. They voted in labour who said they won’t put up council tax what did they do. They did they would keep the 350 to go towards heating they got rid of it. People get what they vote for.
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  469. @ in order for people to turn this around they need to start living within their means and also improve their productivity which they won’t do as they will cry about the government they voted in.
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  470. @ you do understand how economics works
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  471. @ yet you don’t seem to understand how and economy grows
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  472. @ it’s impossible to higher Brits these days. Mentality of people need to change.
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  473. @ they still won’t be able to when they sell up. But I assume you are one of the so called poor. Why don’t you check what you spend on crap you don’t need. Start saving then you might be able to afford a home.
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  474.  @Vroomfondle1066  I do that is why I’m not poor blaming others for my troubles.
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  475. Brexit is great it’s only going bad for thick remainers who cannot leave the uk as ever have nothing to offer.
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  476. Yep the uk grew by 0.6% the eu only 0.3% looks like the uk out performing the eu
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  477. Because if you don’t there won’t be any money for the rich
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  478. cant believe anyone is thinking to vote labour.
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  479. Really then can you tell me why every top eu nation other than France is doing worse than the uk please United States 2.4 2 India 1.9 1 Brazil 1.9 -0.2 Mexico 0.9 1 China 0.8 2.2 Canada 0.8 0 Japan 0.7 0.1 Argentina 0.68 -1.68 South Korea 0.6 0.3 France 0.5 0.1 Spain 0.4 0.5 South Africa 0.4 -1.1 Turkey 0.3 0.9 Switzerland 0.3 0 Singapore 0.3 -0.4 Euro Area 0.3 0 Australia 0.2 0.6 United Kingdom 0.1 0.1 Germany 0 -0.1 Saudi Arabia -0.1 -1.4 Netherlands -0.3 0.9 Italy -0.3 0
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  480. It’s time for rejoin eu to go away now this clearly shows no one wants to rejoin the eu. SNP lose almost all their seats rejoin eu gets now seats. lol
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  481. Millions of business went under while the uk was in the eu. Yet we have not locked up remainers.
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  482. Seems fom is working well for Germany hey lol no one wants to go and no one wants to stay.
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  483. the diffrence is these people actually pay in ie for visas and the nhs surcharge they also pay tax and ni and have no recourse to benefits unlike eu people. I would far rather these people here.
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  484. Who would do the jobs Brits just don’t want to work they only work 18hrs so they don’t get their benefits capped. Time to stop the benefits if you don’t want foreigners here.
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  485.  @onetone4561  no they think France is a war zone so they are leaving. Isn’t it funny even migrants don’t want to live in the eu.
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  486. No they don’t they need their own citizens to get off their lazy butts and work. Stop relying on the tax payer to pay for you.
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  487. That is the worst thing the governments did was bail out the banks. The funny thing is it’s the poor that fell for it the poor who said they did it to save us all when it’s funny that the poor never has 80k year in a bank. So would not of had anything to worry about. You were all sold a lie all you did was make the rich richer.
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  488. As an American living in the uk. Not really sure this will change anything for the uk. The us has really lost its power in the world and really has so much more to worry about in the USA than Europe. People in California are earning 100k and living in cars in car parks to be Biden needs to sort that out first.
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  489.  @Boghopper9999  and we still lost with our tail between our legs. To me we should be trying to keep the Brits on our side the French and Germans and Irish won’t help the us with china only the Brits will. If I was the British government now I would be looking at better trade with china and tell Biden to stuff it.
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  490.  @stephenphillips4609  never been a special relationship
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  491. We keep being told because they can speak English and they left a war torn country lol
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  492. really can see all the lazy in the uk they are all on this video blaiming the tories rather than working
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  493. The Tory gov also spend 208 billion on lazy people working 16hrs really only people who should get benefits are the disabled and people looking for work not people working. Health Health 211.6 19.8 Welfare ‘Social Protection’ excluding state pensions 208.8
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  494.  lazarus921  that’s funny even Poland media said how lazy the poles were and how they only cared about the bens they sent to Poland children in Poland would end after brexit
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  495.  lazarus921  to me the uk gov should stop all benefits to all eu people now the uk has left the eu and charge visa costs and the nhs surcharge
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  496. You also forgot while eu people take up what is left of your council homes too. Why are eu people still living in council houses while the uk is out of the the eu.
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  497.  @danielward7008 maybe you should blame the left with morons who won’t let it happen.
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  498.  @davidhooper1767  go to your local council estate and tell me how many polish satellite dishes are on it
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  499.  @davidhooper1767  lots of programs on e4 also about your eu friends coming over and getting free council homes also claiming housing bens to build their homes back in Romania.
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  500.  @davidhooper1767  how to get a council house. Check out the Romania’s all in free homes not one British person got a home. I am American and seems you are turning a blind eye to your own people for you friends. That is the issue I find with morons Brits you blame the tories for everything but it’s you left wing nut jobs hurting your own people in favour of your foreign friends.
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  501.  @davidhooper1767  to me anyone who was not born in your county should not get a free home paid for by the tax payer. There should be a cause you need to house British people first I am sure no foundry will house British people. The uk is stupid that is one good thing the uk is now out of the eu. Hopefully it will help it’s own first.
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  502.  @davidhooper1767  learn to read I sure did maybe go back and re-read
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  503.  @davidhooper1767  typical left wing thick moron cannot read.
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  504.  @serenapiccinini392  oh wait same thing in the eu. Can’t make it up. lol keep being told by remainers it’s due to brexit lol
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  505.  @davidhooper1767  I have always had checks and it’s only 27 more countries and 24 for them even the locals don’t want to live in. So really who goes lol do you Brits not go anywhere outside of the eu. I guess you are all so poor you cannot travel outside of it. I mean I know you are all thick do you cannot get visas to live anywhere other than the eu. Now you cannot live there your locked in your prison, maybe time to get an education that people want then you might be able to get visas like the rest of us.
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  506.  @davidhooper1767  it seems you think Brits never had checks anywhere before brexit you moron. I think you will find Bulgaria is in the eu and eu people are still checked there. I went with some people from the eu the other day for business and I think your find they were in the same queue as me. So there are checks in eu countries so it seems you are telling porkies. As usually remainers don’t seem to understand that not all of the eu has open borders.
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  507.  @davidhooper1767  I bet they do too. How much do they take out in benefits
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  508.  @davidhooper1767  I thought all the eu people had gone home since brexit the last remainers told me. Now they work and pay tax what is it did they go home or stay. In this so called racist xenophobic county that takes in more migrants than most of the eu put together.
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  509.  @davidhooper1767  you need to learn to read go back and revisit my answers you moron.I take it you are on minimum wage and in work benefits.
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  510.  @davidhooper1767  typical thick remainer. You give Brits a bad name. No wonder no one wants you morons around the world.
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  511.  @davidhooper1767  one thing I am glad about brexit is thick people like you can no longer leave the country.
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  512. Should be how has it hit the eu lol Germany 10% inflation and -0.1% wage growth I will take the 6% wage growth in the uk over that and the 3% interest rates Germany interest rate still 1%
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  513. People in the uk need to start asking their bosses for pay rises not the tax payer. It’s always the nasty tories fault for not giving more tax payers money to people. Really when will people start asking their companies for rises. I am not poor you no why I ask my company for a pay rise each year.
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  514.  @littlerollingwheels  all with degrees in mickey mouse really I have not met one brit who could do the job I do. really you all want 16hr jobs so the nasty tories give you benefits.
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  515.  @jabbadabbajew6035  eu people work there not people on visas. They are just like Brits on 16hrs and benefits. Don’t tar working people on 2k visas and the nhs surcharge as eu people.
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  516.  @jabbadabbajew6035  yet again they would not work there, that is for useless Brits and eu people on benefits.
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  517.  @jabbadabbajew6035  they employ you lot on 16hr contacts paying you minimum wage to be on benefits.
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  518.  @arthurdixon5890  you all cry that us overseas workers are taking your jobs yet we have over 2000 jobs open in my company yet never get a cv from a Brit. Why is that?
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  519.  @littlerollingwheels  what doing degrees in Mickey Mouse who will hire them.
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  520.  @arthurdixon5890  if you are on minimum wage and a visa then the company must be committed a crime. To get a visas to come to the uk it has to be on the avg salary not minimum wage. We all pay 2k a pop for visas every 2 years and 640 every 2 years for the nhs surcharge we don’t get free nhs care anymore if we are not on a visa. Yep illegals get everything free but they come in under the asylum system they get paid very little but get their rent paid and Visa cards to buy food. Not sure I would want to live that way.
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  521.  @Bodz2023  your gov does they need me to pay for you benefits scroungers. Get a job then maybe they won’t need us here. That is the issue with Brits you don’t want us here but you are too lazy to work.
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  522.  @riccardo-964 last time I looked inflation has dropped off and is now 3.4% it’s the same as Ireland’s inflation who is in the eu. If it’s Brexit how do you explain Ireland’s inflation being the same as the uk.
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  523.  @riccardo-964  to me I would put more taffifs on goods especially if they can be grown in the uk. Is that money to farm more here.
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  524.  @riccardo-964  people need to understand they should not just import all the time. Did you not see what happened during Covid. When goods and services dried up and supply chains failed. It’s time to only import what you cannot make or grow.
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  525.  @riccardo-964  what makes me laugh too is you think only the eu can make and grow things.
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  526.  @parsonj39  what standards collapsed after leaving the eu. Can you provide a source.
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  527.  @riccardo-964  you still have not told me why Irelands inflation is the same as the uk in that eu. Why are their prices higher than the uk silly sausage.
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  528.  @riccardo-964  I am fine you still have not answered the question hey.
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  529.  @riccardo-964  have you not been reading the news. They start in a few weeks time.
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  530.  @riccardo-964  inflation is expected to go up 0.2% over 3 years because of it. But for people like you who don’t buy British it will be a lot more. lol
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  531. You cannot compare as most people in the uk pay very little to nothing in. In France and Germany for example even if you don’t work you still pay in about 200 pounds a month into pension. The pensions in these countries is more like the work placed pension in the uk. Issue is most people in the uk don’t want to pay in.
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  532.  @0ate5y  99% are Labour don’t worry labour will be in in a few days let’s see what they stop
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  533. Then why has France not done anything for Ukraine they are too scared of russia. The only country in Europe that is doing anything is the uk and they are not even in the eu.
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  534. I’m sure many of the people on here have room for them. Shortage of homes in the uk. Time for you people to take them in.
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  535. The main problem with the uk is the want society everything for cheap mentality. If you want to be paid more it’s simple you have to pay more for things. Get off benefits and stop suggesting that the few working hard and earning good money pay for you.
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  536. Germany also dropped about this much too. Looks like fom and migration is not working out for them.
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  537. Simple work, when 55% of the population is taking more than they pay in there is a real issue.
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  538.  @StennMathis  maybe if Brits actually got off their asses and worked maybe you also can buy homes and you would have a decent nhs. The trouble with Brits is you don’t want to work and hate foreigners who do work in the uk and better themselves. You think everything should come for free for you while you have no intention of working. You blame the government for not handing out more money to you. Maybe get off your lazy ass and work. Things don’t come for free in life someone pays for it out of their taxes.
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  539.  @StennMathis  the thing is why would they want to work when they can just blame the government for everything
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  540.  @vinparaffin6082  no need to believe anything I can see it with my own eyes. To many lazy chavs. Smoking dope and taking mopeds and spray painting everything the uk used to be a lovely place now it’s a shit hole. I went to waterloo the other day the bridge is now an eyesore. Really what happened to you Brits.
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  541.  @StennMathis  goes for both labour and tories in the uk so they won’t change the system.
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  542.  @StennMathis  I agree
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  543. No the other immigrants pay in for visas and the nhs surcharge they also don’t get any benefits. Taking 7 million people in a short period of time with paying nothing in other tax minimum tax and ni was a massive issue.
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  544. Not what I see today on itv seems the eu migrants don’t want to work and are claiming benefits and are in the food banks really you don’t want these people in the uk. You need people on visas and the nhs surcharge paying in with not recourse to benefits.
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  545. Eu voters did not pay 2k a pop for visas and 640 for the nhs surcharge. Plus tax and ni and had not recourse to benefits of course the uk would rather have no eu people.
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  546. The uk gov need people paying in most Brits don’t work and if they do they pay less than 2k a year in tax and ni. To pay for a visa it’s now 2800 pounds and 640 for the nhs surcharge without paying tax and ni. So of course the uk wants migrants someone has to pay for lazy Brits taking out more than they pay in why complaing the nasty tories are not giving them enough tax payers money.
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  547. No china rules the world
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  548. So who will join up then they already say they are short on people only 3% of the country is black so really not many people will come from there. The raf has had it.
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  549. They got what they voted for
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  550. Don’t you mean since Blair let in most of Eastern Europe
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  551.  @thekingoftheworld9553  more immigration where are the homes for all this immigration. People already crying it’s all too expensive you need the lazy Brits to work no immigration.
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  552.  @noelpucarua2843 that is up to the people of ni
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  553.  @noelpucarua2843  it would still be for the people to decide now that the catholics are the majority I don’t see it being too long before it goes to Southern Ireland I am sure most Brits would be happy for it to be unified. Not sure it would solve all the issues as you will have the issues with the unionists that you had with the ira. Just it will be southern Ireland’s issues
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  554.  @noelpucarua2843  I am sure they would if the people decided they want to go down that route. Just like they did with Brexit they would need a referendum
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  555. I keep being told this is only happening in the uk and it’s due to brexit. You are telling lies according to remainers.
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  556.  @grimaffiliations3671  this is nothing to do with the uk though this is about Europe.
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  557.  @grimaffiliations3671  as this is nothing to do with the uk and it’s to do with Europe. I wanted to know how the tories are giving austerity to Europe. This is a Europe wide issue so no matter who is in power there will be austerity.
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  558.  @grimaffiliations3671  you do understand that it’s the imf that dictates what a counties does if they don’t put in austerity the imf will down grade the country making it more expensive to borrow money. So even if Labour was in power there would be austerity.
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  559.  @JasonAtlas  isnt it funny when the uk is out of the eu its all brexit and when its in the eu its all the uk gov. You need to understand the cycles of debt and how governments manage them.
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  560.  @JasonAtlas  the title of the video is to do with Europe. So again tell me what the tories have to do with Europe. I’m trying to explain to you why the uk has austerity as well as Europe and it has nothing to do with the tories. If you had Labour in or another gov after 2008 you would have had austerity. It’s due to spending stupid amounts of money selling the gold etc to bail out the banks. If you have debt you have to pay it back this causes cuts in services or higher taxes. There are plenty of good videos on countries debt management. Issue is most Brits are too stupid to understand debt crisis.
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  561. There is a much bigger world out there than 26 countries.
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  562.  @lellyparker  the uk still trades with the eu so what is your point
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  563.  @lellyparker  can you tell me when the uk stopped trading with the eu.
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  564.  @lellyparker  that is the way it should be anything the uk can make or grow in the uk should be the uk should only be importing what it needs and cannot make. Why should the uk be importing and exporting cheaper than what it can make. Really the uk needs to start producing again in the eu it stopped doing that and only imported cheap labour. To me if something is cheaper in the uk or elsewhere you buy it. You should not rely on 26 countries most of which the uk never trades with anyway.
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  565.  @lellyparker  can you tell me where I said it was but the eu was paying to keep uk farms empty it’s time the uk started to use this empty land to grow more you need to import what you cannot grow not what you can grow.
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  566. Haha labour cannot even win a seat that has bojo 😊
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  567. To me anyone who trades with the eu deserves this you have had 8 years to move away a big wide world out there.
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  568. @ to me their needs to be taffifs on anything coming in the uk and going out.
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  569. @ this is what the USA will do under trump also. People got to used to importing it’s time the uk started to make more produce. Only what cannot be made in uk needs to be imported
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  570. @ to me any company that does not change deserves to close
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  571. I would much rather these people than eu people they pay in for visas and the nhs surchange and have no recourse to benefits.
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  572. What they hate now is that they have to work now not be paid to leave their farms empty.
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  573. this just shows how eu people take out more than they pay in and that the uk was right to leave the eu.
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  574.  @alexmacfie4521  I bet it won’t be changed now though they realise Reform may grow.
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  575. you do the tax for 2nd homes is alot
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  576. Yet the uk growing 0.6% and the eu only 0.3% seems the uk out performing the eu
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  577.  @lukaszwojtowicz1981  uk has Brexit yet it’s still growing faster than the eu
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  578.  @lukaszwojtowicz1981  the eu is doing poorly you cannot make excuses. If the uk was in the eu it would have to deal with Russia also.
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  579.  @lukaszwojtowicz1981  it would of done if it was in the eu so again the uk would of been worse off in the eu
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  580.  @lukaszwojtowicz1981  got to love eu people making excuses for the eu seems like the eu put sanctions on itself hey lol
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  581.  @lukaszwojtowicz1981  it’s remainers who are not the smart ones they don’t seem to understand that Brexit Britain is doing better than the eu.
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  582.  @lukaszwojtowicz1981  isn’t it funny how remainers are meant to be so smart yet they cannot move country without fom. How is fom working out for the eu with all that unemployment
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  583.  @lukaszwojtowicz1981  so again the eu is doing worse than the uk and scactioned itself. Got to love how that trade is not working out for the eu. Seems unemployment in the eu is on the up too. Seems fom not working well now is it.
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  584.  @lukaszwojtowicz1981  what makes me laugh is I’m not even a Brexiteer I’m not even British I’m on a visa in the uk. I’m just telling you facts. The funny thing is I can move to the uk on a visa and people like you cannot. Also the remainers cannot leave the uk and you suggest brexiteers are thick. If remainers and eu people were so smart why can’t you move country on visas. Why do you need fom. The only thick people I have met in the uk are eu people that tend to be on minimum wage jobs in hospitality and remainers who cry that they are stuck in their prison because brexiteers took their fom. So again if remainers are so smart why are they stuck in prison.
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  585.  @lydiefleurent6809  the whole of the uk it’s out of the eu if you don’t like it move to the eu
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  586.  @lydiefleurent6809  does not matter the uk is out of the eu. If you don’t want to be out of the eu move there it’s simple if your already there stay out of the uk business.
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  587.  @lydiefleurent6809  I care little for the eu don’t give a rats ass about it
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  588. where will they go
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  589.  @hardyvonwinterstein5445  why cant they they can leave on things called visas, I know must brits are too thick to get them I take it you are. But I am in the uk on a visa.
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  590.  @Exanto777  and no country is doing well at the moment so again where will they go. I moved from the USA to oz, nz, Singapore, Japan, Hong Kong, uae and now the uk and the uk is actually not doing that bad. I am doing well here because I work, the issue with most Brits don’t want to work. So won’t do well anywhere. They tend if they work to be in low paid low skilled work. You don’t get benefits to work in most countries they also don’t pay your rent.
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  591.  @Exanto777  most brits tend to not be educated to degree level, hence why remainers cannot leave the uk. and there is another saying the grass is never greener on the other side. :-) so I would say good luck, I will leave the uk when my kids finish school not because I dont like the UK but I am sick of paying for the lazy to complain daily how bad the uk is but expect free money from the state.
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  592.  @Exanto777  that there is but it does not change the fact that most countries are in recession now and their economies are going under so who will hire the brit over their own people in this market. The uk still needs migrants one of the only countries taking in over 1 million year on year as there are so many jobs available in the uk and the uk has paid low skilled work for the locals that were once done by the people of the eu.
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  593.  @lilboy3102  they will be out soon let’s see if it gets better cannot see it then who will you blame when you can’t blame the tories anymore.
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  594.  @lilboy3102  can’t see them doing anything any different
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  595.  @lilboy3102  they might do that but nothing is going to get the people working that’s the issue people expect money for nothing these days.
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  596.  @friedrichjunzt  good if you are too thick to fill out a form to go somewhere you should not be able to go.
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  597.  @davidh6543  I’m not British I am just telling you what I see since living in the uk. Seems there are more Irish in the uk than Irish people in Ireland.
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  598.  @davidh6543  the other thing that is funny now the uk is out of the eu and the eu is meant to be so great you don’t see these people leaving. I guess the uk is still better.
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  599.  @davidh6543  for got to say can you tell me when the uk Starved you not sure you were alive back then or any of your family. Yet all these people still speak with an Irish accent so it’s nothing to do with being staved but seems to me escaping Ireland.
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  600.  @Tourist1967  I’m dyslexic but thank you I’m sure I’m doing far better than you are you on benefits. My English might be bad due to my dyslexia but at least I’m not thick like you.
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  601.  @Tourist1967  because you are a thick and comment on someones english
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  602.  @Tourist1967  I do love you thick people maybe get a job and concentrate on that than my spelling
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  603.  @teasocietysunglasses5244  he won’t listen to you all they want is unskilled thick people to move on minimum wage. It’s because they are not smart enough to move countries on visas.
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  604.  @bernardpearce3478  come back to me when Ireland has 70 million people not 5 million more population in london than the whole of Ireland
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  605.  @bernardpearce3478  we do it seems even being in the eu very few people want to go to Ireland the uk get 1.2 million a year how many to Ireland get a few 1000.
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  606.  @bernardpearce3478  I think your find Ireland is now where near the uk no have a country where people want to go to helps. Why the hell wants to move to ireland what do you have to offer little jobs. United States 50.6M Germany 15.8M Saudi Arabia 13.5M Russia 11.6M United Kingdom 9.4M United Arab Emirates 8.7M France 8.5M Canada 8M Australia 7.7M Spain 6.8M
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  607.  @bernardpearce3478  where would you house or what infrastructure does Ireland have to have massive migration
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  608.  @bernardpearce3478  that is totally untrue the uk took second to Germany Asylum Applications United States 478885 259982 Persons European Union 98240 91735 persons Germany 35315 31885 persons United Kingdom 17101 26366 persons Canada 16335 16485 Persons Italy 14160 14950 persons France 14070 14900 persons South Korea 11539 2341 Persons Spain 10750 14105 persons Greece 9970 7765 persons Netherlands 3825 4105 persons Bulgaria 3000 3125 persons Belgium 2730 3125 persons Switzerland 2450 3060 persons Austria 2270 9565 persons Ireland 1480 1245 persons Finland 1115 315 persons Romania 820 740 persons Sweden 775 815 persons Cyprus 730 895 persons Slovenia 595 640 persons Poland 585 745 persons Norway 480 565 persons Latvia 335 235 persons Iceland 320 325 persons Luxembourg 310 260 persons Portugal 285 185 persons Estonia 225 210 persons Denmark 190 220 persons Malta 95 70 persons Croatia 90 100 persons Czech Republic 85 115 persons Slovakia 50 20 persons Lithuania 30 45 persons Liechtenstein 5 5 persons Hungary 0 5 persons
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  609.  @bernardpearce3478  seems You Irish need to step up Hungary took the least for a country the size of France they need to take more. For a tiny country. Like the uk see they are actually taking in a lot. You lot need to stop telling lies . Again but who the hell would want to move to Ireland. The only eu country the Brits can move to yet even they don’t want to move there. Got to tell you something.
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  610.  @bernardpearce3478  I give you stats you peddle lies without any stats. Really come back to me when Ireland takes in the same amount as the uk please
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  611.  @bernardpearce3478  really though again. Who the hell would want to go and live in a country with nothing to offer but a bunch of terrorists.
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  612.  @bernardpearce3478  what I find funny though you lot are all good to kill innocent people but when it happens to you you all riot and burn your own peoples cars.
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  613.  @bernardpearce3478  no it has not
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  614.  @bernardpearce3478  Ireland has taken in very few no one wants to go to Ireland
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  615.  @bernardpearce3478  you thick paddy get that through your head everyone leaves Ireland no one goes to Ireland
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  616.  @bernardpearce3478  get it through your thick head asylum seekers go to a few counties in Europe First-time asylum seekers are concentrated in a few European countries (see Figure 1). Germany, the UK, Sweden, Italy and France attract the majority of people seeking asylum for the first time. In the UK, the number of asylum seekers has increased from 42,000 in 2019 to 75,000 in 2023 who the hell goes to Ireland hence why your population never goes up.
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  617.  @bernardpearce3478  god you paddy’s are thick
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  618.  @bernardpearce3478  seems very few compared to the Irish in the uk. Shame when the uk left the eu it did not scap the cta with Ireland. What still makes me laugh is it’s the only country the 17.5 million Brits can go to and very few go.
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  619.  @bernardpearce3478  I would not say 4500 is a lot considering 17.5 million can move lol 4,500 UK expats moving to Ireland between April 2021 and April 2022.
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  620.  @bernardpearce3478  looks like far more Irish moved to the uk in the same period around 50 to 70k lol
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  621.  @dondomingo6578  yep they get so much that there country only has 5 million people lol
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  622.  @dondomingo6578  come back to me when all the Irish go back to Ireland. The uk still has more Irish people there than in Ireland lol seems they are not going home soon.
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  623.  @dondomingo6578  the uk gets 1.2 million migrants a year Ireland gets 20k I think the uk gets far more than Ireland in 5 years the uk increases by Ireland population lol
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  624.  @dondomingo6578  come back to me when Ireland gets 1.2 million migrants a year and copes lol
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  625.  @dondomingo6578  if Ireland is so damn great why have they not gone back isn’t it funny Ireland is so great yet more of its people live outside and not one has gone back.
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  626.  @dondomingo6578  bunch of terrorists
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  627.  @dondomingo6578  poverty stricken uk lol the uk is fine you are talking about a few work shy who want more money from us workers the uk is fine I have never been richer anywhere in the world I have lived. You know why I work.
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  628.  @dondomingo6578  wrong moron there are 6 million Irish people in the uk and over 400k have come in in the last 10 years again more Irish in the uk than in Ireland
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  629.  @dondomingo6578  yet very few eu citizens have left the uk seems they must be doing well in the uk hey and very few Irish have left the uk hey seems they must be doing well and so many migrants leaving the eu for the uk by boat. Seems the uk must be ok and accordingly to you going where the money is. Still get more eu people in the uk than Brits in the eu hey. Seems they all left for where the money is. More eu people from eu country in the uk than Brits in each eu country bar Spain. So I guess all these eu people came where the money is.
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  630.  @dondomingo6578  yet very few remainers are going to Ireland they all seem to be staying in the uk. Can you tell the remainers that maybe they will all leave for all these jobs in Ireland.
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  631.  @dondomingo6578  can you also tell me why 40,000 Irish came to England this year and only 4000 Brits when to Ireland if Ireland is so rich and all the jobs are paying so well why are they not staying in Ireland.
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  632.  @dondomingo6578  hey moron there are 1.8 million Indians in the uk and only 91,000 in Ireland so again more come to the uk why because there are more jobs.
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  633.  @dondomingo6578  come back to me when Ireland actually has a growing population and when people really want to go there.
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  634.  @paulohagan3309  if they hate the uk it’s simple leave
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  635.  @paulohagan3309  the real reason is not family it’s that they are too thick to leave on minimum wage and benefits
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  636.  @paulohagan3309  you hate what happened in the past when how many of you were alive time to get over it. It was 100 years ago
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  637.  @paulohagan3309  the people of today did nothing to you or your ancestors
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  638.  @paulohagan3309  last time I looked there are still people alive from ww2 none alive from over 100 years ago
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  639.  @paulohagan3309  last time I looked they are as Irish as you are just they are prods nothing to do with the English.
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  640.  @paulohagan3309  the catholics are quite happy to attack them back plus civilians too so I see women and children with them hey.
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  641.  @paulohagan3309  what makes me laugh with the catholics they are happy to kill women and children yet when a Muslims stabs someone in Dublin they riot over it. Can’t make it up.
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  642.  @paulohagan3309  isn’t it also funny how you call them colonists yet you are in the eu and you don’t seem to mind the polish talking over your country lol. I thought that is what the eu is about migration to anywhere. Don’t worry the uk are out of the eu now so the Brits cannot move anywhere else now. Although it is funny that Ireland still wants a cta with the uk and allows Brits to move there if you hate them so much why don’t you protest to your government to get rid of the cta how about ask them to stop the raf protesting the skys over Ireland. It seems you want the Brits for somethings but not others.
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  643.  @paulohagan3309  I agree they should not march I am not keep on any of it. But they are Irish not English they just are a different religion from you to hate the English that have done nothing to you is just stupid
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  644.  @paulohagan3309  the orange order also come from the Dutch not the English. Ie orange if anything why don’t you hate them they are in the eu and colonised
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  645.  @paulohagan3309  or don’t you know William of orange
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  646.  @paulohagan3309  to me I would think you would be happy the English are no longer in the eu with your attitude towards people who did nothing to you
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  647.  @paulohagan3309  so if ni ever gets reunited with the South so you think all these prod Irishmen should be deported to the uk.
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  648.  @anniegrath1417  balls I see so many Irish on the council estate in the uk the whole of Liverpool is Irish and look how poor that is.
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  649.  @anniegrath1417  to me anyone claiming benefits that is not originally from the uk should be deported.
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  650.  @anniegrath1417  it means you are taking from the state foreigner should not be taking from the state.
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  651.  @anniegrath1417  they should not move to another country if they cannot afford to move. People wonder why Brexit happened. You could not move to my country and claim benefits. If you don’t get a job you get deported. The uk got taken the piss out of for too long by eu people and got fed up. I can’t blame them.
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  652.  @jamesbradshaw3389  I’m Japanese American and I still believe people should only be able to move on visas. In my country you can only move on visas. Thick people should not be able to move.
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  653.  @jamesbradshaw3389  to me anyone who comes to a country should be able to contribute and not take out any benefits or get access to free homes.
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  654.  @gavintuesday4959  far more in the uk isn’t it funny not one is going home but it’s nice your getting all the asylum seekers
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  655.  @johnathandaviddunster38  why should I move last time I looked the uk is not in the eu 🤡
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  656. Go to weatherspoons can still get a pint for 1.49
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  657.  @DJB01  you pay more for your beer on principle I will rather pay less than more.
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  658.  @DJB01  I don’t go out that often but when I do usually weatherspoons as it’s cheap
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  659. They are giving our hard working tax money to the lazy not their friends time to get a job
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  660. The nhs got far more than 350 million the nhs went from 140billion to 219billion I take it your a remainer who does not work or pay tax. The two biggest bills in the uk are now the nhs at 219billion and the dole at 190billion.
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  661. Just don’t import the same people the uk and the USA have Japan will be destroyed.
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  662. funny I moved to the uk a few years ago have no issues seeing my gp and no issues with the cost of living. funny I was also in denmark last aug and its far more expensive than the uk
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  663.  @pollutingpenguin2146  they would need to be double the price of everything I found was more than double
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  664.  @lynnhickinbotham3784 you won’t be for long if labour gives him all this power remember the 70s and 80s no one went to work and look what happened to them they were all laid off in the end and everything closed for cheaper goods made in china.
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  665. Well let’s see in 5 years time if you’re still using that food bank.
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  666. No they don’t the Irish are in the eu. Only fom and others matter. It was the same when the uk was in the eu. The British became 3rd class citizens in their own country.
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  667. The only people I know on bens are British people. Most people who come into the uk cannot get benefits if your on a work visa you pay in for the nhs surcharge and visas and have no recourse to bens. People really need to stop blaming migrants and work.
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  668.  @louloubrow2171  only 12 million people are on pension are you really telling this is 55% of the uk. Please people in this country have become far to lazy and reliant on benefits.
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  669.  @louloubrow2171  please like you let them get away with it by lying and saying their are all disabled or on pensions this is not true the only people who should get some thing are pensioners, disabled people and people who are out of work through no fault of their own all these lazy people that you excuse are taking to much money away from them.
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  670. Not if you are still in the eu. The uk had the sense to leave the eu.
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  671. Surely that is racist if this is the case they should give all foreigners the right to vote. How can you choose one group of foreigners over another.
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  672. Well no fom to the uk now the rest of the big counties need to take in everyone that came to the uk. Want to see how they deal with that mass migration that came to the uk. Lol things will only get worse love it.
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  673.  @theresenydahl9531  uk has a future it does not need the eu for it.
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  674. @ looks like the eu not doing too well, I’m glad the uk is out of the eu. Can’t wait until the uk stops paying into the eu.
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  675. @ we really don’t need eu people in the uk there is a reason there is very few eu people outside of the eu no one wants people who take minimum wage work.
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  676.  @theresenydahl9531  haha the eu help the uk it was the uk that helped the eu and France
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  677. The poor pay no taxes what takes to people pay on uc. If you are poor please check out what taxes you pay and reply backs the people who pay all the taxes in the uk are the people who earn over 50k check out the study on the institute of fiscal studies.
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  678.  @centerfield6339  anyone on a form of benefits gets more back than they pay in
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  679.  @garethhhhh  they get more back than they pay in in uc payments
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  680. funny we keep being told by remainers that the eu controls migrants
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  681. Let’s hope so
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  682. You need to take the best immigrants the uk took the worst now the country is like a 3rd world hell hole.
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  683.  @TheIndianTechie007 why do you think the uk left the eu. To stop unskilled migration for skilled migrants. All that will happen is Germany and France will get all the Eastern European migrants on minimum wage rather than the uk. Germany and France still have a massive skill shortage of dr and nurses and other skilled work.
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  684.  @mwd331 can you tell me what that eu passport is giving her as the fom is not working. What jobs does the eu gave for her. With such high unemployment
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  685.  @das-se4xl  yet every eu country has far higher unemployment than the uk. So if it’s working why is this unemployment going up in every eu country seems there are 27 countries and not one for these people to go to. Seems like 470 million people of the eu and most of them are unemployed. Got to love that.
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  686.  @das-se4xl  isn’t it funny how the uk is now out of the eu and eu unemployment is going up not down. While the uk was in the eu it went down because all the unskilled workers came to the uk now the eu does not have the uk there is no where for them to go.
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  687.  @das-se4xl  lie go to trading economics and tell me what the eu unemployment was when the uk was in the eu and tell me what it is today. You say it’s a lie tell me the figures. I go on figures. It seems you don’t seem to understand figuers like every other eu person and remainer. I can see why you all relied on fom to move country. Maybe obtain a degree and the skills to get a job.
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  688.  @das-se4xl  thing is I’m not a brexiteers I’m a foreigner living in the uk
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  689.  @das-se4xl  if you all spent as much time getting the skills to move country and obtain visas as you do bashing Brexit you might all have decent jobs rather than crying that you lost your access to low paid unskilled work.
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  690.  @vullings1968  the issue with the uk was low skilled unemployment that the uk got used to as wage growth in the eu was -1.7% since 1997 since the uk left the eu there is no more low skilled work and the Brits just won’t take on this work they need to and skill up. But since the uk left the eu wage growth is now 6% it will take time for the uk to get richer again with almost 30 years of negative wage growth. Look at Germany and the wage growth now that the uk is not in the eu and everyone going there it’s now -1.7%
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  691.  @vullings1968  you go on about the uks fertility rate you do know that most of the eu had a lower fertility rate than the uk and even with fom Germany and France have both had negative growth in the last 3 years in terms of people leaving the country vs them going. So again fom does not seem to be working for these eu countries.
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  692.  @vullings1968  if this is true why is wage growth in the eu on negative figures when inflation is now much higher in the eu than the uk.
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  693.  @vullings1968  uk inflation is now at 2.3 eu inflation is at 2.6% with negative wage growth.
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  694.  @vullings1968  I also have traveled through the eu last year and this year and I see a lot of poverty in the eu. Unlike the utopia that remainers and eu people discribe. Maybe go to Paris and northern France. Looks like a tip.
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  695.  @vullings1968  Spain looks like a 3rd world country compared to the uk. Italy looks like a 3rd world country compared to the uk.
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  696.  @vullings1968  that is finally what the uk is doing. Hence the wage growth of the uk since Brexit and the uk inflation still falling while eu inflation is going up again. The issue with remainers and eu people not given Brexit a chance. The uk has only been out of the eu since 2021 and the issues of the uk started in 1997 under Blair with the only county in the eu to open to unskilled migration from the eastern block forcing a race to the bottom. The uk now needs to focus on training up its own people and getting on skilled migration not people who can move because they can who tend to be on minimum wage.
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  697.  @AndriyValdensius-wi8gw  love how all the remainers mention Russia for Brexit yet it’s the eu keeping Russia in money. It’s the uk against Russia and the eu still buying Russia oil and gas. Can’t make it up.
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  698.  @epincion  it seems the eu is giving uncle Vlad all his money
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  699.  @tomvanaarle2622  how is Spain doing and Greece and Italy last time I looked all In the eu.
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  700.  @tomvanaarle2622  euro area unemployment 6.4% seems higher than the uk.
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  701.  @tomvanaarle2622  how is France and Germany doing both comparable to the uk
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  702.  @tomvanaarle2622  unemployment 7.5 and 5.9 respectively seems like fom working well for them hey. The eu is no utopia. Like you keep suffering. Fom is not working
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  703.  @tomvanaarle2622  uk was 0.6 not 0.5 and Germany and France both compatible to the uk are 0.2 seems eu not working out well for France and Germany hey
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  704.  @tomvanaarle2622  uk 0.6 Netherlands -0.1% seems eu working out well for the Netherlands hey
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  705.  @tomvanaarle2622  euro area growth 0.2% uk growth 0.6% seems Brexit doing better
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  706.  @tomvanaarle2622  Netherlands inflation 2.7 Brexit inflation 2.3 Brexit wins again
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  707.  @danganbeg7225  the thing is the uk has more of every eu nation in it than every eu nation has Brits.
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  708.  @danganbeg7225  nope but it seems the eu does isn’t it funny you don’t like putin but your eu buys its gas and oil. Isn’t it funny it’s only the uk that does not
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  709.  @danganbeg7225  maybe time for you to stop filling up your cars and stop cooking in the eu and heating your homes as your paying the guy you don’t like
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  710.  @danganbeg7225  can you tell me how your economy is doing also oh wait 2.7% inflation more than the uk at 2.3% wage with -1.7 uk wage growth 6% gdp growth -0.1 uk 0.6% seems Brexit is doing better.
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  711.  @das-se4xl  you do under stand that most of the counties in the eu have less population than the uk and much higher unemployment rates. I really can see why remainers need fom to move countries your thick as two plank. Counties with smaller populations than the uk with higher unemployment rates, Sweden, Finland, Spain, France. The list goes on.
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  712. Yep thank you so much my savings are going up.
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  713.  @leonhenry4861  the money I earn of course I have a job. That’s the issue with Brits you don’t work. Maybe try getting a job.
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  714. Well they voted in Labour so they don’t care about migration they all seem to want fom so again they don’t care they only want unskilled migration.
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  715. Small boats are tiny most migration comes from skilled workers.
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  716. Japan has homeless, people don’t rely on the state so much in Japan also it’s seen as bad if you take off the state in Japan people use family first. In the uk people see living off the state as a good thing and your an idiot if you don’t claim this leaves less for the real people who need it. Then they blame the government for not giving more to the people who really need it rather than their greedy selves.
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  717. Russia is already Selling it to china and India
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  718.  @SlowhandGreg  the truth according to a thick remainer who is too thick to leave the country now his lost his fom. really
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  719. @ looks to me lol Germany and Ireland and France all doing worse than the uk European Union 0.1 0.4 % Finland 0.1 0.3 % United Kingdom 0.1 0 % Austria 0 -0.1 % Estonia 0 0.1 % Euro Area 0 0.4 % Italy 0 0 % France -0.1 0.4 % Germany -0.2 0.1 % Latvia -0.2 -0.3 % Turkey -0.2 -0.2 % Norway -0.6 -1.6 % Iceland -1.1 1.5 % Ireland -1.3 3.5
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  720. @ looks like Germany for wage growth is doing worse than the uk too United Kingdom 6 5.5 % Netherlands 5.6 6.4 % Cyprus 5.4 6 % Norway 5.37 5.15 % Ireland 5.3 5.6 % European Union 5 5.5 % Czech Republic 4.6 3.9 % Euro Area 4.4 4.9 % Spain 4.14 4 % Italy 3.8 3.7 % Sweden 3.6 3.6 % Slovakia 3 4.9 % Germany 2.9 3.1 % France 2.8 2.7 % Finland 1.9 2.2 % Iceland 1.6 1.3 % Switzerland 1.5 1.1 % Belgium 1.08 2.55
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  721. @ to me I would suggest to concentrate on your own economies your not doing good. I do laugh every day at Germany all the people losing their jobs daily there probably never to work again. But you laugh at the uk. Can’t make it up.
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  722. @ you really need to sort out Germany
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  723. @ I laugh at Germany negative growth lol
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  724. @ I work in banking and economics Germany, France and Ireland are basket cases they are all doing worse than the uk. You lot are nuts. You think your counties are doing great. All to push the eu. Your doing poor the eu is not helping you outs your trade is down. You’re not selling anything no one wants to buy your goods. Since 2018. Many companies now are trading on reduced hrs in Germany. I laugh at you lot.
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  725. @ your unemployment is going up that’s why I laugh you ignore that your doing bad that is what makes me laugh. You are in the eu and your doing worse than the uk. Germany is the worst country in the g7 and you’re in the eu. Brexit compared to German in the eu is doing better.
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  726. @ you have no room to laugh at the uk your in the eu and your worse Germany to be worst performing rich economy for second year in a row IMF forecasts put the UK as the second-worst performing in the G7 look at your own country
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  727. @ gdp growth uk 0.1 Germany -0.2 France -.0.1 Ireland -1.3 uk not doing well but doing better than your eu.
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  728. @ concentrate on your own country brexit Britain is doing bad compared to what it did before but the eu is doing no better than the uk. Really you people are nuts to think your doing well.
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  729. @ the eu as a whole only grew 0.1 the same as the uk. Really to think the eu is doing great is nonsense.
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  730.  @kurtgodel5236  Germany wage growth is 2.9% not even enough to keep up with inflation uk wage growth is 6% it’s over taken inflation. The uk is finally paying its people above inflation. Being in the eu and all that fom you get is going to make you all poorer like it did to the uk. The uk economy has staganated and has poor are growth due to eu unskilled migration now it’s finally got rid of that finally wage growth is over taking inflation. It will take a while to catch up but at least the uk can move forward now. All that will happen now to Germany is you will get poorer.
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  731. @ -0.1 and -0.2 is not fine really I do laugh at people like you
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  732.  @kurtgodel5236  Brexit is great it’s keeping eu people out of the uk and remainers out of the eu. There is no where for youth unemployment of the eu to go now hence why your wage growth is falling. Your economies are falling the only thing that is keeping you up is the uk is still paying its divorce bill that goes down year on year went from 1% to 0.6% now in a few years they will be gone. Let’s see how that 2.6% wage growth and 2.7% inflation keeps you all up.
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  733.  @kurtgodel5236  the uk celebrates its independence all the time the only people who cry are thick remainers who have no skills to move country.
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  734. @ the only thing I think is a shame about Brexit is still so many eu people still here just wish they all would go home to that eu utopia. Yet they all stay here why is that if it’s so great lol
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  735. @ got to laugh you say it’s Brexit yet Germany France and Ireland a doing worse than the uk. The issues of the uk were because of the eu. Finally wage growth is picking up now the uk is out of the eu. No more unskilled eu migration driving down uk wages. Gdp to ppp fell due to Tony Blair opening up to the eu and low skilled workers it started to stagnant from 1997. Finally now it is increasing and yours is falling why is that because you are getting the low skilled workers that used to go to the uk. Youth unemployment in the eu is increasing now the uk is not in the eu as it all came to the uk. Germany your country is getting to old. Your stuffed.
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  736. @ remainers hate they are out of the eu as they needed the eu to retire too places like Spain as they are too stupid to get visas. The uk really does not need the eu the eu brought the uk to its knees. The uk is finally rid of it. Once it stops paying in the uk will do fine. Leave that uncontrolled low skilled workers to go to France and Germany and Ireland. Watch it do to your economies as it did to the uk.
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  737. @ freedom of movement of unskilled workers is just stupid as you migrate people who take more out of the system than pay in. They pay little to no taxes.
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  738.  @brunsheimmasterbaitwilfrie2811  seems like the eu not helping you much then hey. So even in the eu your doing poorly looks like it’s hitting the common people in Germany food banks in Germany now over 2000. Many companies are now on reduced shifts and companies laying off. Little to no investment now in Germany due to the debt cap. For god sake you have women washing their clothes in the fountains. It’s not the utopia you suggest.
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  739. @ yet your food banks have gone up and your wage growth is going down. Wait a few years and tell me the same thing.
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  740. @ Germany has more food banks than the uk now what are you on about. You are in denial
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  741. @ to me that is how consumerism should be you should pick and choose where you buy from. I have never bought from the eu. To me you should buy local you are buying a ton from Germany yet its economy is still going down the pan. The eu is not saving it.
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  742. @ that to me is good, but the funny thing is uk exports have taken off since Brexit the uk has now over taken France for exports. Uk exports now worth 1.02 trillion before Brexit they were only 700billion. Seems the uk exports are not doing to badly.
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  743. @ to me freedom of movement is great for countries like Denmark as very few people move there, try getting the population of Ireland every 2 years and tell me if your infrastructure holds up.
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  744.  @christopherellis2663  I feel good every day know no more eu people can move to the uk and no more remainers can move to the eu. It makes me laugh daily.
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  745. @ I love these anti Brexit posts they make me laugh daily knowing remainers cannot move to the eu and poor old eu people believe their counties are in great shape. It really gives me something to laugh about daily. I love it. Keep up the good work.
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  746. @ gov.uk disagrees with you Made in the UK, Sold to the World: New strategy to boost to 1 trillion
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  747. @ that is why the eu will fail open borders is a stupid thing. So I’m glad the uk is out. To me only smart people should move country not low skilled low paid workers. That is why the uk will never rejoin the eu.
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  748. @ to me that is a good thing, most eu countries never took any goods or services from the uk anyway. I agree we should trade and I agree we should work together on things like military esp with Russia. I don’t agree with freedom of movement for a trade agreement and 99% of the world believes the same thing. Hence why most countries in the world don’t allow any Tom dick or harry to move to their counties. You can have trade without freedom of movement. The eu wants this as 80% of the eu has little to no jobs. Look at Italy and Spain as examples youth unemployment in both countries is at 30%. All eu countries have more of their citizens in the uk bar Spain. Low skilled workers take out far more than they pay in. The nhs for example costs the avg person in the uk 4000 a year if your on minimum wage you pay little to no tax in the uk. Even someone on 26k only pays 2300 in taxes this is not enough to pay for the nhs let alone other services. There are 1 million eu people in the uk working in hospitality this is only minimum wage work. This puts issues on resources. To me only skilled smart people should be able to move country for this reason you need people to pay into a country not just take. There should be minimum visas for low skilled work and only when you have skills shortages in say areas like construction, care of the elderly etc. this would make salaries in these areas increase too. The eu and allowing people to move freely is just stupid.
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  749. @ nor is taking in millions of unskilled people.
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  750. @ how is open borders working out for France and Germany. How many people have to die before you lot do something about it.
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  751. @ Irish should love Brexit they hate the uk
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  752. @ what makes me laugh is remainers keep going on about Russia and Brexit yet it’s the eu still buying all its oil and gas and diesel from the eu and it’s the uk standing up to Russia while the eu countries like hungry they pander to Russia. You lot are hypocrites.
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  753. @ Brexit was voted for by British people. The remainers are a small amount of people who cannot vote in a remain eu party so they cry about Russia. In truth no one in the uk wants to be in the eu. The people who do are not smart people so they need fom to move country as they have little to nothing to offer anyone. Stop blaming Russia, skills up and move to the eu if you love it so much.
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  754. @ the thing is the uk had flat lined since 2007 the uk was in the eu. You have short memories. It was the policy of fom that flat lined the uk. Low wage growth high unskilled migration driving down wages. This is how what is happening to Germany and France now the low skilled migrants cannot come to the uk. Look at Germany wage growth before Brexit look at the uk. Which one has the most low skilled migration. Look at uk wage growth after Brexit and look at Germany. It takes time to grow again a get 16 years of low wage growth. Come back to me in 2 or 3 years more of the uk being out of the eu and look at Germany and France’s wage growth it will stay low. The reason again low skilled Eastern European migrants the same thing happening now in Ireland too. You cannot take in millions of low skilled people and expect your economy to grow.
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  755. @ you lot really need to study economics. You talk bull all the time because you lost your fom. If you lot spent more time studying than crying you could have moved to the eu.
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  756. @ again the uk don’t make printers so no you did not buy from the uk.
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  757. @ stop making up rubbish. Everything is made in china and shipped to the uk. To me you lot are making up rubbish. To me buy from where you want. I buy little to nothing from the eu. The world is global you buy from where you want to buy from. The uk is a mainly serviced economy now 80% of all goods exported are services, finance, gold, law etc not goods.
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  758.  @offrainc6455  to Me even if you did buy something it’s a small price to pay to not have fom. Fom of low skilled migration is the issue the uk had and now it’s slowly recovering from that it will take time but now wage growth is at 6% it won’t take that many more years. Eu wage growth is collapsing now the uk is out and you have no where to dump your low skilled workers
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  759. @ what was uk gdp growth before Brexit that is what you lot won’t answer
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  760. @ the uk was dead in the water in the eu through low skilled migration caused by Blair and brown. Uk gdp growth has been nonexistent in the uk since 2005. Remainers need to stop the nonsense Germany and France are going down the same route as the uk now the rest of Eu has no where to send its low skilled migrants look at the facts. Since Brexit wage growth as been 6% wage growth in Germany and France is now below inflation. It does not take a rocket scientist to understand this.
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  761. @ Here is the annual GDP growth rate for the United Kingdom from 2007 to 2024: Year GDP Growth Rate (%) 2007 2.6 2008 -0.2 2009 -4.6 2010 2.2 2011 1.1 2012 1.5 2013 1.8 2014 3.2 2015 2.2 2016 1.9 2017 2.7 2018 1.4 2019 1.6 2020 -10.3 2021 8.6 2022 4.8 2023 0.4 2024 0.9 These figures indicate the percentage change in the UK's Gross Domestic Product (GDP) compared to the previous year. The data from 2007 to 2022 is sourced from the Office for National Statistics (ONS) OFFICE FOR NATIONAL STATISTICS , while the 2023 and 2024 figures are projections from Statista STATISTA . Notable periods include the significant contraction in 2009 during the global financial crisis, a sharp decline in 2020 due to the COVID-19 pandemic, followed by a rebound in 2021. The projected growth rates for 2023 and 2024 suggest a modest recovery. For the most current and detailed statistics, you can refer to the ONS OFFICE FOR NATIONAL STATISTICS and Statista STATISTA websites. Sources You said: Can you give me this and how much the uk has grown in year 4 years from 2007 ChatGPT said: Here’s the UK’s year-by-year GDP growth from 2007 onwards, along with the total growth over each four-year period: UK GDP Growth by Year (%) Year Growth Rate (%) 2007 2.6 2008 -0.2 2009 -4.6 2010 2.2 2011 1.1 2012 1.5 2013 1.8 2014 3.2 2015 2.2 2016 1.9 2017 2.7 2018 1.4 2019 1.6 2020 -10.3 2021 8.6 2022 4.8 2023 0.4 2024 0.9 (est.) UK Growth Over Each 4-Year Period To calculate total GDP growth over each four-year period, we use the compound growth formula: Total Growth = ( ∏ ( 1 + Annual Growth Rate 100 ) ) − 1 Total Growth=(∏(1+ 100 Annual Growth Rate ​ ))−1 Here are the results: Period Total Growth (%) 2007-2010 0.0% 2008-2011 -1.6% 2009-2012 -1.0% 2010-2013 6.7% 2011-2014 7.8% 2012-2015 8.9% 2013-2016 9.4% 2014-2017 10.3% 2015-2018 7.5% 2016-2019 8.0% 2017-2020 -5.2% 2018-2021 0.7% 2019-2022 3.7% 2020-2023 2.8% 2021-2024 15.2% (est.) Key Observations The 2007-2010 period saw almost zero net growth due to the financial crisis. From 2010-2019, the economy grew steadily, with each four-year period showing around 7-10% total growth. The 2017-2020 period was hit hard by COVID-19, leading to negative growth. 2020-2023 showed a slow recovery from the pandemic. 2021-2024 has the highest projected growth at 15.2%, driven by the post-COVID recovery.
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  762. @ only growth in 2009 was higher than inflation before that all the years lower than inflation Year GDP Growth Rate (%) 2007 2.6 2008 -0.2 2009 -4.6 2010 2.2 2011 1.1
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  763. @ issue is they all do minimum wage work pay in very little to the economy. Take up infra resources like the nhs and homes. This is destroying the country. The uk need to move away from low skilled people and only take in high skilled. You cannot run an economy taking in low skilled people. That is why Brexit was needed
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  764. @ the eu destroyed the British economy
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  765. @ I am going to continue to laugh at France, Germany as they are the ones who have to pick up their low skilled Migration. Look at their productivity since Brexit it’s going down. It might be higher than the uk as it was always higher. Look at their investment in infrastructure it’s going down since this why is that. When you have to pay to top up low skilled workers you have less money. The nhs alone costs the avg person 4300 a year the avg minimum wage worker does not even pay 2k a year in taxes. You cannot keep this up.
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  766. @ yet its economy fell to negative. No need to read the express it was all over my bank on Friday
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  767. @ check your growth rate. People like you make me laugh daily.
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  768. @ haha love this negative growth no need for the express
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  769. Ireland -1.3 3.5 % Moldova -3.1 0 %
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  770. @ get your head out of the left wing trip Ireland -1.3 3.5 % Moldova -3.1 0 %
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  771.  @danganbeg7225  go to Bloomberg Save Translate Ireland’s economy contracted in the fourth quarter, a bad omen for euro-zone data due this week. Ireland is on its way to recession.
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  772. @ funny everyone I know has gone away. Don’t know anyone who cannot afford to go away most people I know have 2 to 3 holidays a year even the people on benefits.
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  773. @ funny why was Spain protecting recently by the amount of Brits there on holiday.
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  774. @ if I was you I would concentrate on your economy not the uk -1.3 is a massive drop.
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  775. @ looks like your talking tripe On average, people went on 3.9 holidays per person in the past 12 months, up on the 3.4 holidays taken the year before and in line with the highest level over the last ten years, in 2019. This breaks down to 1.7 holidays abroad per person (up from 1.4) and 2.2 UK breaks per person (up from 2.0)
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  776. @ you do understand the uk gets a population increase of the size of Ireland every 5 years and the Irish population hasn’t grown. Since 1800 so no the towns are not empty
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  777. @ I did that is why I can see it and I can bet I earn far more money than you do
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  778. @ the one who should of stayed in school is you you think -1.3 is bigger than plus 0.1.
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  779. @ really what number is bigger 0.1 or -1.3% please tell me
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  780. @ i am against the yes I can’t stand it. And your obsession with the uk why is that. If you hate the uk stay out of it.
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  781. @ and your obsessed with the uk 😁. I thought the Irish hated the uk. So surely you would be happy that it left the eu.
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  782. @ for me stick to your own country. For me I don’t want eu people in uk business. You should concentrate on your own issues and leave the uk to concentrate on its. The uk does not need unskilled eu migrants.
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  783. @ again don’t need the daily express. Look forward to stocks opening tomorrow. Keep on lying to yourself how Ireland is doing.
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  784. @ read Bloomberg but I see you cannot read. I bet you’re a minimum wage eu worker.
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  785. @ According to Bloomberg, Ireland's economy contracted in the fourth quarter of 2024, but partially rebounded in the first quarter of 2024. Explanation Fourth quarter Ireland's GDP fell 1.3% in the three months through December 2024, following a 3.5% increase in the previous period. This was a bad sign for the euro zone. First quarter Ireland's GDP rose 1.1% in the three months through March 2024, which was an increase from a 3.4% drop in the previous period. This increase was driven by the information and communication industries. Other news about Ireland's economy The Central Bank of Ireland revised growth upwards, but warned that potential US economic policy changes create significant downside risks to the public finances and the economy. Ireland remains exposed to global developments amid rising international trade tensions.
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  786. @ get your mind out of the express never read it I have a Bloomberg terminal on my desk. Take a look at trading economics, Bloomberg, cityam, ft. All saying the same thing.
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  787. @ I do love eu people you really are in cloud lala land. It makes me laugh. 😆
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  788. @ Ireland's economy contracted in the fourth quarter, a bad omen for euro-zone data due this week. Irish gross domestic product shrank 1.3% in the three months through December, after an increase of 3.5% in the previous period, the statistics agency in Dublin said on Tuesday.28 Jan 2025 Bloomberg
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  789. @ and watch Germany go down now your wage growth is 2% and watch the uk go up now it’s 6% the uk gdp per capita this year grew to 41k the fastest ever growth
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  790. @ the uk is far better off without unskilled migration
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  791. @ no where near as good as me I earn far more than any German
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  792. @ check your growth rate this year
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  793. @ -1.3% in q4
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  794. @ I think your find more uk businesses closed down in the eu than out of it. Many with eu grants.
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  795. @ I can’t stand low skilled eu people. Really the uk should have cut off all their benefits when the uk left the eu. They would have soon returned.
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  796. @ Irish gdp fell by that much. Take a look at trading economics
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  797. @ Irish gdp fell the 2nd most in Europe.
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  798. @ your talking nonsense. The uk grew more than Ireland in 2024. Check out trading economics.
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  799. @ Ireland is in the eu and doing worse than the uk, Germany in the eu and did worse than the uk.
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  800. @ the uk did poorly in the eu from 2007 onwards. It was time to get out. When the uk stops paying into the eu let’s see how well it does. Let’s see how well Ireland does when trumps taffifs come.
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  801. @ I bet you think Ireland is doing great and gdp per capita means every one earns 100k
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  802. @ uk gdp has not grown since 2007 that’s the issue you deny that. The uk was in the eu in 2007. This is why I’m saying it’s nothing to do with Brexit. If uk gdp grew 60 per cent from 2007 to 2020 then I would say yes it’s Brexit. Howher it did not uk gdp has only started growing again since Brexit. Why are you denying they uk gdp did not grow in the eu. This is the issue here eu people and remainers always suggest uk gdp grew in the eu it did not. Mass migration killed uk gdp as the uk only got unskilled Migration they took out far more than it put in. 90% of eu migrants to the uk were in unskilled low paid work. This forced wage growth into negative figures for gdp growth so earn on year people were getting poorer not richer. Why are you lot ignoring this. Uk inflation was 2% in the eu and wage growth was below 2% you can now see the same things happening wit France and Germany now these unskilled migrants cannot come to the uk they are going there and to a smaller extent to Ireland. Look at migraines to Ireland now they cannot come here. You lot are crying over a few migrants look at what that did to the uk. Countries need skilled migrants to grow not people on minimum wage claiming benefits. The uk killed the uk.
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  803. @ the only people crying that Brexit is a disaster are remainers and eu people who have 0 skills do cannot leave to come to the uk or leave to go to the eu.
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  804. @ everyone Irish person I have met thinks gdp per capita thinks the Irish all earn 100k that is the issue with gdp growth it does not mean everyone is richer it means the top few are richer. Everything in Ireland is going up due to the mass immigration the uk used to get is going to Ireland now. Wait and see what this does to Ireland. When no one can get homes, when your infrastructure is used beyond what I can be due to fom. You have it all to come what happened in the uk and you cannot stop it you can riot over immigration but as your in the eu you cannot stop it. This will make your house prices go up, it will eventually drop Irish gdp. As it did to the uk.
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  805. @ got to laugh that you are still blaming Irish population decline on what happened in the 1800s you have been independent since 1922. Not one of you are alive from the 1800s it’s time to move on.
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  806. @ yes it does the uk net growth to the uk is 500k yen uk got 5 million eu people alone.
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  807. @ uk population was 66 million in 2007 it’s now 70 million
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  808. @ Ireland has not grown at all in the years it’s been independent and all you lot can do is blame the famine get over it. If you hate the uk so much why do you keep going on about Brexit. Move on the uk is out of the eu people like you should concentrate on Ireland not the uk.
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  809. @ the uk does not need Ireland
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  810. @ uk did not grow at all from 2007 until now. It’s finally stated to grow from 2020. Look at annual growth from 2007
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  811. @ 2007 2.4 2008 -0.3 2009 -4.2 2010 1.9 2011 1.5 2012 1.5 2013 2.1 2014 3.1 2015 2.3 2016 1.9 2017 1.9 2018 1.3 2019 1.4 2020 -9.8 2021 7.5 2022 4.1 2023 0.6 2024 0.9
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  812. @ Year Inflation Rate (%) 2007 2.4 2008 3.5 2009 1.9 2010 2.5 2011 3.9 2012 2.6 2013 2.3 2014 1.5 2015 0.4 2016 1.0 2017 2.6 2018 2.3 2019 1.7 2020 1.0 2021 2.5 2022 7.9 2023 6.8 2024 3.7 2025 3.7 (forecast) Uk growth to inflation. The eu caused the issues of the uk inflation was always above growth.
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  813.  @bartconnolly6104  now look at wage growth of the uk Year Wage Growth (%) 2007 4.0 2008 3.5 2009 2.1 2010 1.4 2011 1.8 2012 1.4 2013 1.3 2014 2.3 2015 2.5 2016 2.4 2017 2.8 2018 3.2 2019 3.5 2020 1.5 2021 5.0 2022 7.9 2023 6.8 2024 5.9 2025 3.7 (forecast) The eu killed wage growth people have been getting poorer and poorer in the eu
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  814. @ The Worst Years for People in the UK (2007-2025) The uk has been hit the hardest in the eu. People need to see the eu for what it is I’ll be glad when I pay no more money into the eu. All so thick people can move country. Based on the data, the worst years for people in the UK were those when real wages declined significantly, GDP contracted, and inflation surged. These years include: 1. 2008-2013: The Financial Crisis Aftermath Worst Year: 2009 GDP shrank by -4.2% (deep recession). Wage growth fell to 2.1%, but inflation at 1.9% meant real wages barely grew. Job losses, austerity measures, and rising unemployment. Public services cut, and living standards declined. 2011-2013: Real wages fell for three consecutive years (e.g., -2.1% in 2011). Inflation remained high (above 2%), while wage growth was weak. Living costs increased while wages stagnated. 2. 2020: The COVID-19 Pandemic Worst Year: 2020 GDP crashed by -9.3% (worst since WWII). Unemployment surged due to lockdowns. Wage growth fell to 1.5%, barely keeping up with 1.0% inflation. Businesses collapsed, and government debt soared. 3. 2022-2023: The Cost of Living Crisis Worst Year: 2022 Inflation hit 7.9%, erasing all wage gains. Real wage growth was 0.0%, meaning no improvement in purchasing power. Food, energy, and housing costs soared. Interest rate hikes increased mortgage and rent costs. 2023: Inflation remained high at 6.8%, wages couldn't keep up. Real wages were stagnant, leading to another year of hardship. Overall Verdict: The Worst Years 2009 – Deep recession, job losses, and financial crisis impacts. 2011 – Inflation at 3.9%, real wages fell by -2.1%. 2020 – COVID-19 lockdowns caused economic collapse. 2022 – Cost of living crisis peaked, high inflation. 2023 – Continued economic pain, no real wage growth. Final Thoughts The worst periods were during the financial crisis (2008-2013), the pandemic (2020), and the cost of living crisis (2022-2023). These years saw declining real wages, rising unemployment, and increased financial stress for households. While some recovery occurred in between, these tough years highlight the challenges faced by UK citizens.
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  815.  @bartconnolly6104  The Economic Decline of the UK (1997-2016): The Impact of Mass Migration and Economic Policies Abstract Between 1997 and 2016, the United Kingdom underwent significant economic and social changes. This period, dominated by the Labour government under Tony Blair and Gordon Brown, saw substantial increases in immigration, particularly from the European Union (EU). The decision to allow immediate labor market access to citizens of new EU member states in 2004 had far-reaching effects, including increased pressure on infrastructure such as the National Health Service (NHS) and housing markets. While GDP growth remained steady, wage stagnation and inflation led to worsening living standards for many. Furthermore, low interest rates created the illusion of wealth while fueling asset price inflation, exacerbating economic inequality. This essay examines these factors in detail, providing a comprehensive analysis of the economic consequences of mass migration and economic mismanagement during this period. 1. Introduction The UK’s economy in the late 1990s and early 2000s was characterized by strong GDP growth, low unemployment, and increasing globalization. Labour’s economic policies, including increased public spending and deregulation of financial markets, contributed to initial economic expansion. However, underlying structural issues—such as rising immigration, housing shortages, and growing public service demands—began to surface. This essay explores how these factors interacted to contribute to the UK’s long-term economic decline. 2. Immigration Trends and Policies (1997-2016) One of the most significant policy decisions of the Labour government was the relaxation of immigration controls. In 2004, the UK chose not to impose transitional controls on workers from new EU member states, unlike many other EU countries. This resulted in a sharp increase in migration, particularly from Poland, Lithuania, and Romania. 2.1 The Scale of Immigration In 1997, net migration to the UK was approximately 48,000. By 2004, net migration had risen to 268,000. By 2015, it reached 333,000, with EU nationals comprising a significant proportion. 2.2 Economic Justifications and Realities Labour’s justification for mass migration was that it would fill labor shortages, particularly in low-skilled jobs. While this did contribute to economic growth, it also had several unintended consequences: Wage suppression: Increased competition for low-skilled jobs led to stagnation in wages, particularly for working-class Britons. Public service strain: More people using the NHS, schools, and social housing led to resource constraints. Housing demand: An influx of new residents intensified the housing crisis, contributing to rising house prices. 3. Housing Market Dynamics 3.1 House Price Inflation The UK housing market saw dramatic price increases during this period: 1997: Average house price was £75,000. 2004: £160,000 (113% increase from 1997). 2016: £206,000 (37% increase from 2004). Despite increased demand, housebuilding lagged, leading to rising costs and making homeownership unattainable for many young people. The lack of supply was exacerbated by restrictive planning laws and an influx of foreign property investors. 3.2 The Role of Immigration With hundreds of thousands of migrants entering the UK annually, demand for rental properties surged, particularly in major cities like London, Birmingham, and Manchester. This pushed rental prices higher, creating affordability issues for many residents. 4. National Health Service (NHS) and Public Services The NHS, already struggling with funding issues, faced additional pressures due to increased demand from a growing population. 4.1 NHS Waiting Lists 1997: 1.3 million patients on NHS waiting lists. 2010: 2.5 million patients. 2016: Over 4 million patients, with waiting times for treatments exceeding 18 weeks in many cases. While migration contributed additional NHS staff, demand outpaced supply, resulting in overcrowded hospitals and longer waits for care. 4.2 Schooling and Social Services The surge in immigration placed significant strain on schools, particularly in areas with high migrant populations. Many schools struggled to accommodate the increased number of non-English-speaking students, necessitating additional resources. 5. Economic Indicators: GDP Growth, Wages, and Inflation 5.1 GDP Growth The UK experienced relatively strong GDP growth from 1997 to 2008, followed by a sharp decline during the global financial crisis. Year GDP Growth Rate (%) 1997 3.5 2000 3.9 2004 3.0 2008 -0.5 2009 -4.2 2010 1.9 2016 1.9 Despite GDP growth in some years, many Britons did not feel the benefits due to stagnant wages and rising living costs. 5.2 Wage Stagnation From 1997 to 2016, real wages grew at a much slower pace compared to previous decades. Many workers in low-skilled jobs saw little to no real wage increases due to competition from migrant labor. 5.3 Inflation and Interest Rates Inflation averaged around 2-3% per year but spiked to over 5% in 2011. Low interest rates, set by the Bank of England, encouraged borrowing but fueled asset price inflation rather than benefiting workers. 6. Asset Inflation and Wealth Distribution 6.1 The Illusion of Wealth Many people felt richer due to rising house prices, but this was an illusion, as real wages stagnated and cost-of-living pressures increased. 6.2 Winners and Losers Winners: Homeowners and investors who benefited from rising asset prices. Losers: Renters, young people, and those without significant financial assets, who found it increasingly difficult to afford housing. 7. The Role of the European Union The EU’s freedom of movement policies allowed for increased migration, and the UK’s decision not to impose transitional controls exacerbated the effects. 7.1 Brexit and the Backlash By 2016, dissatisfaction with economic inequality, mass migration, and housing unaffordability contributed to the Brexit vote. Many viewed leaving the EU as a way to regain control over immigration policies and address economic challenges. 8. Conclusion The period from 1997 to 2016 was marked by significant economic changes. While Labour’s open-door immigration policies contributed to GDP growth, they also led to wage stagnation, housing shortages, and strained public services. Low interest rates fueled asset inflation, exacerbating wealth inequality. By 2016, dissatisfaction with these issues culminated in the Brexit referendum, reflecting widespread frustration with the economic status quo. Addressing these challenges requires a balanced approach to immigration, economic management, and housing policy to ensure sustainable growth and equitable wealth distribution. 9. References Office for National Statistics. (2016). UK House Price Index. NHS Digital. (2016). Hospital Waiting Times Statistics. Bank of England. (2016). Historical Interest Rate Data. Migration Observatory. (2016). Migration Trends and Impacts.
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  816. ​ @bartconnolly6104  check out the figures now you are quoting the figuers from the past, ireland has only started to get the mass migration the uk has seen for the last 30 years. how is your country dealing with that. ising it funny how you give the high figures from the past while ignoring the facts that uk gdp has been shrinking since 1997
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  817.  @bartconnolly6104  The Economic Decline of the UK (1997-2016): The Impact of Mass Migration and Economic Policies Abstract Between 1997 and 2016, the United Kingdom underwent significant economic and social changes. This period, dominated by the Labour government under Tony Blair and Gordon Brown, saw substantial increases in immigration, particularly from the European Union (EU). The decision to allow immediate labor market access to citizens of new EU member states in 2004 had far-reaching effects, including increased pressure on infrastructure such as the National Health Service (NHS) and housing markets. While GDP growth remained steady, wage stagnation and inflation led to worsening living standards for many. Furthermore, low interest rates created the illusion of wealth while fueling asset price inflation, exacerbating economic inequality. This essay examines these factors in detail, providing a comprehensive analysis of the economic consequences of mass migration and economic mismanagement during this period. 1. Introduction The UK’s economy in the late 1990s and early 2000s was characterized by strong GDP growth, low unemployment, and increasing globalization. Labour’s economic policies, including increased public spending and deregulation of financial markets, contributed to initial economic expansion. However, underlying structural issues—such as rising immigration, housing shortages, and growing public service demands—began to surface. This essay explores how these factors interacted to contribute to the UK’s long-term economic decline. 2. Immigration Trends and Policies (1997-2016) One of the most significant policy decisions of the Labour government was the relaxation of immigration controls. In 2004, the UK chose not to impose transitional controls on workers from new EU member states, unlike many other EU countries. This resulted in a sharp increase in migration, particularly from Poland, Lithuania, and Romania. 2.1 The Scale of Immigration In 1997, net migration to the UK was approximately 48,000. By 2004, net migration had risen to 268,000. By 2015, it reached 333,000, with EU nationals comprising a significant proportion. 2.2 Economic Justifications and Realities Labour’s justification for mass migration was that it would fill labor shortages, particularly in low-skilled jobs. While this did contribute to economic growth, it also had several unintended consequences: Wage suppression: Increased competition for low-skilled jobs led to stagnation in wages, particularly for working-class Britons. Public service strain: More people using the NHS, schools, and social housing led to resource constraints. Housing demand: An influx of new residents intensified the housing crisis, contributing to rising house prices. 3. Housing Market Dynamics 3.1 House Price Inflation The UK housing market saw dramatic price increases during this period: 1997: Average house price was £75,000. 2004: £160,000 (113% increase from 1997). 2016: £206,000 (37% increase from 2004). Despite increased demand, housebuilding lagged, leading to rising costs and making homeownership unattainable for many young people. The lack of supply was exacerbated by restrictive planning laws and an influx of foreign property investors. 3.2 The Role of Immigration With hundreds of thousands of migrants entering the UK annually, demand for rental properties surged, particularly in major cities like London, Birmingham, and Manchester. This pushed rental prices higher, creating affordability issues for many residents. 4. National Health Service (NHS) and Public Services The NHS, already struggling with funding issues, faced additional pressures due to increased demand from a growing population. 4.1 NHS Waiting Lists 1997: 1.3 million patients on NHS waiting lists. 2010: 2.5 million patients. 2016: Over 4 million patients, with waiting times for treatments exceeding 18 weeks in many cases. While migration contributed additional NHS staff, demand outpaced supply, resulting in overcrowded hospitals and longer waits for care. 4.2 NHS Funding and the Cost per Person The NHS is funded primarily through taxation, and the cost per person is a key factor in evaluating its sustainability. In 2016, the NHS cost approximately £4,000 per person per year. A worker on minimum wage (£7.20 per hour in 2016) earning around £14,000 annually would pay approximately £1,800 in income tax and National Insurance. This means that many low-wage workers, including a large proportion of new migrants, were not contributing enough in direct taxes to cover their healthcare costs, creating a funding gap. This imbalance required additional contributions from higher earners or government borrowing, placing strain on public finances and contributing to economic instability. 4.3 Schooling and Social Services The surge in immigration placed significant strain on schools, particularly in areas with high migrant populations. Many schools struggled to accommodate the increased number of non-English-speaking students, necessitating additional resources. 5. Economic Indicators: GDP Growth, Wages, and Inflation 5.1 GDP Growth The UK experienced relatively strong GDP growth from 1997 to 2008, followed by a sharp decline during the global financial crisis. Year GDP Growth Rate (%) 1997 3.5 2000 3.9 2004 3.0 2008 -0.5 2009 -4.2 2010 1.9 2016 1.9 Despite GDP growth in some years, many Britons did not feel the benefits due to stagnant wages and rising living costs. 5.2 Wage Stagnation From 1997 to 2016, real wages grew at a much slower pace compared to previous decades. Many workers in low-skilled jobs saw little to no real wage increases due to competition from migrant labor. 5.3 Inflation and Interest Rates Inflation averaged around 2-3% per year but spiked to over 5% in 2011. Low interest rates, set by the Bank of England, encouraged borrowing but fueled asset price inflation rather than benefiting workers. 6. Asset Inflation and Wealth Distribution 6.1 The Illusion of Wealth Many people felt richer due to rising house prices, but this was an illusion, as real wages stagnated and cost-of-living pressures increased. 6.2 Winners and Losers Winners: Homeowners and investors who benefited from rising asset prices. Losers: Renters, young people, and those without significant financial assets, who found it increasingly difficult to afford housing. 7. The Role of the European Union The EU’s freedom of movement policies allowed for increased migration, and the UK’s decision not to impose transitional controls exacerbated the effects. 7.1 Brexit and the Backlash By 2016, dissatisfaction with economic inequality, mass migration, and housing unaffordability contributed to the Brexit vote. Many viewed leaving the EU as a way to regain control over immigration policies and address economic challenges. 8. Conclusion The period from 1997 to 2016 was marked by significant economic changes. While Labour’s open-door immigration policies contributed to GDP growth, they also led to wage stagnation, housing shortages, and strained public services. Low interest rates fueled asset inflation, exacerbating wealth inequality. By 2016, dissatisfaction with these issues culminated in the Brexit referendum, reflecting widespread frustration with the economic status quo. Addressing these challenges requires a balanced approach to immigration, economic management, and housing policy to ensure sustainable growth and equitable wealth distribution. 9. References Office for National Statistics. (2016). UK House Price Index. NHS Digital. (2016). Hospital Waiting Times Statistics. Bank of England. (2016). Historical Interest Rate Data. Migration Observatory. (2016). Migration Trends and Impacts.
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  818. @ check out trading economics and tell me how Ireland is doing please for gdp growth in Europe. You are 2nd to bottom. It’s not growing more than the uk. Website is trading economics click gdp growth and please tell me where it is.
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  819. @ sorry it’s moved up one place it’s now above Iceland, but the worst gdp growth now is Moldova, Iceland and Ireland
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  820. @ but it is to do with the eu. That’s the issue you cannot escape that now these migrants are all on low incomes so don’t contribute so that hits housing and infrastructure. You will see the decline the uk has seen. Counties need some low skilled migration but needs to be topped up by high skilled workers. This is what the eu forgot and why 90% of the world does not allow unfettered low skilled mass migration.
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  821. @ that’s the issue with people in the eu and remainers blame Brexit for everything but the eu gets no blame it’s the uk.
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  822.  @bartconnolly6104  The UK's economic decline in relation to its membership in the European Union (EU) and subsequent withdrawal (Brexit) is a multifaceted issue. Several factors such as mass migration, lower wage growth, changes in industry focus, and EU policies contributed to the challenges faced by the UK in the years leading up to Brexit and after. 1. Mass Migration and Its Effect on Infrastructure: Migration Patterns: Over the period of the UK's EU membership, immigration from Eastern Europe (especially countries like Poland, Romania, and Hungary) surged after the EU's enlargement in 2004. Between 2004 and 2016, net migration to the UK rose significantly, with around 2.5 million immigrants arriving from Eastern Europe alone by 2016. Pressure on Infrastructure: Mass migration increased demand for public services, housing, healthcare, transportation, and education. The infrastructure, particularly in major cities like London, Birmingham, and Manchester, struggled to keep pace. While immigration provided economic benefits through taxes and labor force expansion, it also strained local services and housing markets, contributing to issues such as overcrowded schools and long waiting times for healthcare. Housing Shortage: In 2015, a report estimated that 1.2 million new homes were needed by 2030 to meet the growing demand from both population growth and migration. However, housing construction remained insufficient, exacerbating the problem. 2. Lower Wage Growth: Wage Stagnation: Despite economic growth, wage growth in the UK remained sluggish for much of the 21st century, particularly for low-skilled workers. Average wages grew by only 1.3% per year in real terms from 2008 to 2016, which lagged behind productivity growth. One key factor contributing to this stagnation was the large influx of low-wage workers from Eastern Europe, which increased competition for low-skilled jobs and put downward pressure on wages in industries like agriculture, construction, and hospitality. Employment Shifts: The UK saw a shift from traditional industries like manufacturing to lower-wage service jobs. While this was partly due to automation and globalization, the EU's free movement of labor accelerated this transformation by providing a constant influx of workers willing to accept lower wages, which undermined wage growth, particularly in sectors where low-skilled labor was prevalent. 3. The Transformation to a Service Economy: Deindustrialization: EU policies, particularly those related to competition and trade, encouraged the shift from a manufacturing-based economy to a service-based economy. For instance, EU competition rules and state aid regulations limited the ability of the UK government to provide subsidies to struggling industries, hastening the decline of manufacturing sectors like steel, coal, and textiles. The loss of manufacturing jobs, which were historically higher-wage positions, led to a reliance on lower-wage service sector jobs. Trade Policy Impact: EU membership provided access to the single market, but it also exposed the UK to competition from low-wage economies within the EU, particularly in manufacturing. As a result, many UK manufacturers moved operations abroad or faced increased competition from cheaper EU-based goods, leading to the decline of the UK’s manufacturing base. GDP Growth vs. Real Economic Impact: The shift to a service economy boosted GDP growth in terms of headline figures but created structural imbalances. While GDP growth remained around 2% per year, much of that growth came from the financial services, real estate, and other service sectors that were often low-wage or unsustainable in the long term. This created an economy reliant on consumption rather than production. 4. Decline of Agriculture and Food Security: Agricultural Policies: EU agricultural policies, particularly the Common Agricultural Policy (CAP), played a role in reshaping UK farming. While CAP subsidies provided financial support to farmers, they also led to inefficiencies and a reliance on imported food. The UK’s agricultural sector became less competitive in global markets, as it focused on receiving EU subsidies rather than innovating or expanding exports. Reduced Self-Sufficiency: Over time, the UK became more dependent on food imports, and by the time of Brexit, it was estimated that the UK sourced approximately 40-50% of its food from abroad. This dependency on imports raised concerns about the country’s food security, particularly if trade disruptions occurred, as was feared during the Brexit process. Decimation of Small Farms: Smaller UK farms were often unable to compete with larger, heavily subsidized EU farms, leading to a decline in the number of small farmers. Between 2000 and 2016, the number of UK farms decreased by over 10%, and smaller, family-run farms struggled to survive due to competition from cheaper EU-produced goods. 5. EU Policies and the UK Economy: Single Market and Trade Regulations: The EU's single market allowed for the free movement of goods, services, capital, and people, but this also created a highly competitive environment. For example, UK manufacturers faced increased competition from countries like Germany and Poland, which benefited from lower labor costs and robust EU subsidies. This contributed to the decline of the UK’s manufacturing sector. EU State Aid and Competition Rules: EU rules on state aid and competition prevented the UK government from providing support to key industries like steel, coal, and shipbuilding. For instance, in 2015, the UK steel industry faced major challenges due to cheap imports from China and high energy costs. Despite the sector’s importance, EU competition rules restricted the ability of the UK government to offer targeted support, which led to plant closures and job losses. Fiscal Contributions: The UK was a net contributor to the EU budget, paying more into the EU than it received in return. In 2016, the UK’s net contribution was estimated at £8.6 billion. Many critics of the EU argued that these contributions did not provide a sufficient return in terms of infrastructure, agricultural support, or investment in key sectors. 6. Economic Growth and Decline: Growth Rate vs. Structural Issues: The UK’s growth rate averaged around 2% per year during much of its EU membership. However, this growth often masked deep underlying issues, such as the erosion of manufacturing, regional inequality, and stagnant wages for low-skilled workers. While the financial services sector thrived, much of the country’s industrial base deteriorated, and the services sector largely provided lower-paid jobs. Impact of Globalization and EU Policies: EU membership exposed the UK to the forces of globalization, which led to cheaper imports but also undermined domestic industries. While some EU policies aimed at free trade and open markets benefited consumers through lower prices, they also weakened the competitiveness of domestic industries, particularly in sectors that were labor-intensive and low-tech. Conclusion: The UK's economic decline during its EU membership was the result of a combination of factors: mass migration that strained infrastructure, lower wage growth driven by an influx of low-skilled labor, EU policies that facilitated the transition to a service-based economy at the expense of manufacturing, and agricultural policies that made the UK increasingly reliant on food imports. While the UK experienced economic growth, it was often uneven and came with significant structural challenges that have had lasting impacts on its economy. The transition to a service economy, along with the decimation of its agricultural and manufacturing sectors, created vulnerabilities that became evident post-Brexit.
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  823. @ and I stand with them daily. To me Brexit is great it stops thick people leaving the uk. It also stops thick eu people coming to the uk. It’s win win.
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  824. @ no it’s not it’s 3rd from bottom I can see why you like the eu your used to lies. Man, keep your eu. It’s just a shame the uk did not leave the cta and thick Irish can still come the uk.
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  825. @ I work in finance and economics. I can bet I earn far more in one week than you earn in a year.
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  826. @ you need 2 qs of negative growth to be in recession you have one at -1.3 if you have another you will be in a recession.
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  827. @ Bloomberg Ireland is to remain in a technical recession this year before rebounding next year and outstripping all EU countries bar Malta, according to the latest EU forecasts.15 Nov 2024. Can you actually learn to read rather than make up facts this is from my Bloomberg terminal I make money by betting on economies.
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  828. @ as I said you have one q of negative growth so yes you are right if you have 2 you will be in recession.
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  829. @ I have already confirmed your not in recession can you read. I said you have had 1 q of negative growth -1.3. You need 2 for a recession. If you have one more you will be.
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  830. @ The Reality of Ireland’s Economic Growth, Emigration, and Cost of Living in 2024-2025 Ireland’s economy has long been a subject of both praise and scrutiny. On paper, the country boasts strong economic indicators, with multinational corporations driving growth and government revenues reaching record highs. However, beneath the surface, many Irish citizens are struggling with rising living costs, a severe housing crisis, and economic disparities that make it difficult for the average worker to thrive. This paradox has resulted in growing dissatisfaction, with thousands of people choosing to leave Ireland in search of better opportunities abroad. This article explores Ireland’s economic performance, the rising cost of living, and the reasons behind increasing emigration. Economic Growth in 2024-2025: A Paradox Ireland’s economy experienced a contraction of 0.5% in 2024, primarily due to volatility in the multinational sector. However, forecasts for 2025 suggest a GDP rebound of around 4%. On the surface, this would indicate a thriving economy, but these figures can be misleading. Ireland’s GDP is heavily influenced by multinational corporations in sectors like pharmaceuticals, finance, and technology. These companies generate massive profits and pay substantial corporate taxes, but their influence can distort national economic figures. For instance, if a large multinational scales back operations or moves some activities elsewhere, GDP can decline significantly, even if the underlying domestic economy remains stable. In the final quarter of 2024, GDP fell by 1.3%, raising concerns about the country's economic momentum. However, an alternative measure, Modified Domestic Demand (MDD), which focuses on household consumption and investment, showed a 4.1% increase year-on-year. This suggests that while headline GDP figures may look weak, the actual economy that affects ordinary Irish citizens remained strong. Despite this, not everyone feels the benefits. The vast revenues generated by corporations do not always trickle down to workers, leaving many people struggling to keep up with rising living costs. Why Are So Many People Leaving Ireland? Emigration has long been a part of Ireland’s history, particularly during times of economic difficulty. However, in recent years, people have been leaving not because of job scarcity but because of affordability issues. Between April 2023 and April 2024, around 34,700 Irish citizens emigrated, the highest number in almost a decade. Many of those leaving are young professionals, students, and families who find it increasingly difficult to afford housing and basic necessities. The primary drivers behind this modern wave of emigration include: The Housing Crisis Ireland’s housing market has been in crisis for years, with average Dublin rents exceeding €2,000 per month for a one-bedroom apartment. Homeownership remains out of reach for many young professionals, with property prices soaring due to limited supply and high demand. Government efforts to increase housing supply have fallen short, and many people feel that moving abroad offers a better quality of life. Rising Cost of Living Inflation in Ireland has led to a 17% increase in basic living costs over the past four years. Energy costs continue to rise, with SSE Airtricity announcing significant price hikes in 2025, increasing annual electricity bills by €171.55 and gas bills by €113.15. Food, transport, and healthcare costs have also risen faster than wages, leaving many workers feeling financially squeezed. Lack of Disposable Income Despite Ireland’s impressive GDP, many people feel poorer due to rising taxation, stagnant wages, and higher everyday expenses. While multinational corporations contribute significantly to tax revenues, these funds do not always translate into better public services or lower living costs for ordinary citizens. Better Opportunities Elsewhere Countries like Canada, Australia, and the United States offer more affordable housing and a lower cost of living relative to wages. Many emigrants report that they can work fewer hours and still afford a better quality of life abroad compared to Ireland. Is Ireland Becoming Poorer? While Ireland as a country is wealthy, its wealth is not evenly distributed. A major concern is that economic success at the national level does not always translate into better living conditions for ordinary people. For instance, Ireland has one of the highest corporate tax revenues in Europe, but this has led to an overreliance on multinational profits. If major corporations shift operations or restructure, the economy can experience sudden contractions. Additionally, while wages have risen in some industries, they have not kept pace with inflation, leading to a decline in real income for many workers. Young professionals, in particular, feel they are working harder yet getting less in return due to higher costs of housing, food, and utilities. In a 2024 survey, 67% of Irish respondents stated that they felt worse off financially compared to five years ago, despite overall economic growth. The Cost of Living Crisis The cost of living in Ireland has reached unsustainable levels for many residents. Some key indicators include: Rent: The average rent in Dublin is now over €2,000 per month, while even smaller cities and towns have seen significant rent hikes. Housing: The average house price in Ireland is €350,000, making homeownership increasingly out of reach for younger generations. Food: Grocery prices have risen sharply, with essential items costing 12-15% more than in 2020. Energy: Electricity and gas bills continue to rise, with households expected to pay an extra €300-€500 annually compared to previous years. Childcare: Childcare costs in Ireland remain among the highest in Europe, making it difficult for families to balance work and expenses. While the government has introduced cost-of-living supports, many feel these measures are not enough to offset rising expenses. Can the Economy Improve for Ordinary People? Despite the current challenges, Ireland still has opportunities to make life more affordable for its citizens. Some potential solutions include: Building More Housing Increasing the supply of affordable homes and rental properties could help lower prices and ease the housing crisis. Addressing Wage Stagnation Policies that ensure wages keep up with inflation would help improve purchasing power. Tax Reform Reducing the burden on workers while ensuring corporations contribute fairly could help balance economic growth with social benefits. Investment in Public Services Strengthening healthcare, transport, and childcare services could ease financial pressures on households. Conclusion: Ireland’s Economic Success is Not Shared Equally Ireland remains a wealthy country with a strong economy, but the benefits of this success are not felt equally. Multinational profits and corporate tax revenues make Ireland look wealthier than it is for many ordinary citizens, who face sky-high living costs, housing shortages, and wage stagnation. This growing divide between economic success and everyday affordability has led to record emigration rates, as people seek a better quality of life elsewhere. While the Irish government forecasts economic growth in 2025, real improvements for citizens will depend on housing reforms, wage increases, and cost-of-living relief. Without these changes, more people will continue to leave, and Ireland’s prosperity will remain a story of corporate success rather than a shared national achievement.
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  831. @ let’s see if Ireland improves I cannot see it and I’m betting against it. Did love seeing the sign today at croke park that says Irish need not apply for jobs. Seems your own country hates your own people. I remember my dad telling me about the no Irish and no dogs signs in the uk and now your own county has it lol
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  832. @ cannot see it Ireland is falling
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  833. @ I bet your country will fall again -1
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  834. @ your country is run by google, ms, amazon, facebook etc with the new eu taxes coming in these will be cutting. With ai coming in they will cut more. You cannot keep growing if you don’t see that you’re living in cloud la la land.
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  835. @ nope I’m not, I love it. I made you lot sing the fields of athenry in Dublin. Love the way it’s changing though soon you won’t see an Irish man in Dublin.
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  836. @ let’s see who makes money at the end of q1 me or you though lol already made a lot of money predicting that Ireland would fall more than 1%
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  837. @ you want to know how well a local economy is doing ask the people not someone on YouTube wanting to run down a country to make themselves feel better. Ask the people of google, facebook Amazon all losing their jobs
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  838. @ I don’t think it’s doing bad I know it’s doing bad
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  839. @ you are living in cloud la la land. Ask the people on the streets, your cost of living has gone up. Energy prices have gone up people are poorer than they were last year. People like you are not living in the real world
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  840. @ let’s see in a month which one of us is right your economy dropped -1,3 in q4 I predict it will drop 1% in q1
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  841. @ lol got to laugh it’s to do with Brexit. Ireland’s food prices have gone up more than the uk your energy prices are more than the uk. 2qs of negative growth will put you in recession. You are in the eu and it’s not helping your cost of living. Really people like you really are living in cloud la la land. The eu new tax laws are going to force more layoffs in Ireland. Ireland’s economy grew due to low taxes on big corporations. The same companies that will be down sizing in the coming years.
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  842. @ Google and other tech companies are downsizing in Ireland as part of a larger global restructuring effort to cut costs, primarily due to a slowdown in growth following the pandemic boom, coupled with increased pressure to maximize profits, leading to job reductions across various departments, including in their Irish offices; this is happening despite Ireland being a major tech hub due to its attractive tax rates and skilled workforce. Key points about the downsizing in Ireland: Global Trend: The layoffs in Ireland are part of a wider trend of tech companies globally reducing staff due to economic factors and a need to streamline operations. Cost-Cutting Measures: Companies like Google are looking to cut costs by reducing headcount, especially in areas where growth has slowed down. Impact on Irish Workforce: While the Irish tech sector is still considered a major hub, the recent layoffs have caused concern among workers in Ireland. Focus on Restructuring: Google has stated that the job cuts in Ireland are part of a broader reorganization aimed at optimizing their business operations.
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  843. @ watch a video on why is Ireland poorer than you think. Issue with people is they think gdp to ppp is making people richer it is not all it’s showing is the disparity from the rich and the poor by making people think everyone in Ireland is earning 120k a year. I make money by laughing at people like you. You believe everyone in Ireland is richer than people in the uk because of this.
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  844. @ no matter how you swing it the cost of living in the uk is less than Ireland and the people of Ireland are not richer than the uk. You think Brexit has made people poorer yet gas and electricity is more expensive in Ireland, Tesco is more expensive in Ireland rent in Ireland is more expensive than London. You are living in la la land.
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  845. @ well I would like to keep going on. But you keep believing no one in Ireland is suffering and you’re all rich due to a few tech companies and the eu. If you want to hear real economics I would suggest you watch Gary economics, why Ireland is not as rich as you think. And many others stop listening to arm chair economists who only look at financial models. The rich are actually making you poorer not richer. But you believe the eu is making everyone richer when it’s not. Look at other videos and read. Don’t just look at the anti Brexit nonsense. All the countries are going though the same and it’s the big companies like google, Amazon, ms, facebook doing it. They are making people poorer by taking their assets. People like me trading for them. But if you want to put it all down to Brexit that is up to you. Just want to point out Ireland is really no better. But you think it is.
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  846. @ that was before you were even born what you are going through is what your gov and the eu is doing to you. And if you went through that why would you keep complaining about Brexit. Surely you would be glad the uk has left the eu. Come back to me when your country hits 3t in gdp then your be out performing the uk. Oh wait your never get there the reason why no one even to this day wants to stay in Ireland. lol and you know what it’s not due to the British boming and killing your all as that has not happened in the last 100 years. I can’t wait to see you all lose everything because you think the eu is making you richer. lol
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  847. @ got to love the Irish not even born 100 years ago their parents are not born 100 years ago and they still blame the British for their issues. Really you people are mad. So glad the uk is out of the eu just a shame the uk still protects Ireland with the raf. Really time for the uk just to tell Ireland to piss off. Put taffifs on everything and cut the cta.
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  848. @ yet the uk economy from 2015 to present has grown by 14%, Germany only 10% and France 12% so seems Brexit is doing better than the eu counterparts.
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  849. @ now concentrate on Ireland why do you keep going on about Brexit. You clearly hate the uk for their troops giving to a poor life even though you were not born. Go back to your eu and leave the uk alone.
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  850. @ it’s down to the eu the uk is finally growing again out of the eu. Wage growth up, inflation below wage growth for the first time in 20 years it will take the uk time to grow but it’s finally getting there going back into the eu with mass low skilled migration will only hurt the uk.
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  851. @ check gdp figures from 2015 to 2025 for Germany uk and France
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  852. @ now check Greece. Their gdp has not recovered from its high in 2007. Really the eu is not great for increasing living standards.
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  853.  @bartconnolly6104  the uk is finally growing since it left the eu. The eu is not growing. Check gdp figures for the eu
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  854.  @bartconnolly6104  eu growth is very low European Union 0.1 0.4
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  855.  @bartconnolly6104  the uk is better off out of the eu it’s this growth who needs it European Union 0.1 0.4
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  856. @ you do understand that the counties of the eu get more money by gdp growth and the two main providers of the eu are Germany and France. So if their economies are not growing that will mean less money for the countries who pay nothing in. Don’t you. Ie Ireland pays nothing in to the eu so your get less money back or you will be made to pay in.
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  857. @ you do also understand that countries need to do well in the eu and grow their economies so the poorer nations get more money to rebuild with 0.1% growth that is not going to bode well for the poorer countries.
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  858. @ forgot to add for economies to just pay their debts they need gdp growth of atleast 2% a year the economies that are paying into the eu have not had that in the last 5 years. So you’re living in cloud la la land if you think the eu is doing well.
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  859. @ I’m saying the uk since Brexit has grown more than France and Germany the only comparable economies to the uk.
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  860. @ the eu as a whole is not growing 0.1 is not growth the eu needs to grow at 2% so the counties can contribute. No the uk is not paying in and Germany and France not growing who is going to pick up the tab
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  861. @ the German economy and French are shrinking not growing.
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  862.  @bartconnolly6104  got to laugh that you think 0.1% is growth for the eu. You do understand that an economy with the debt of the eu needs 2% to growth just to afford its debt. Really you are thick as two planks.
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  863. @ well this is my last message I would say look a video on here how money works and how debt works. You seem to not understand you seem to think gdp ppp is the bee all and end all. You don’t understand economics at all.
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  864. @ you don’t even understand how the eu works. lol no they do not it goes up based on gdp growth you have also lost all of the uk money. I did not say it cannot survive but it will need to cut what the uk paid in and Germany and France are not growing so will end up paying in less. We will see and all predictions are that the uk will continue to out grow France which is the next rival to the uk.
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  865. @ no they grew that since 2015. Which is tiny growth. As I said they need 2% year on year that is only just over 1% year on year
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  866. @ the eu is not making the big countries grow that is why. I brought it up you seem to think all countries are doing well out of the eu they are not. 1% growth is not enough to even pay the countries interest on debt.
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  867. @ got to laugh at your comment there if you suggest France has over taken the uk why it’s it still behind the uk in gdp.
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  868. @ uk has almost grown 1 trillion since Covid 2.871 trillion USD (2018) 3.788 uk today France 2.782 trillion USD (2018) France today 3.052 trillion uk has grown far more then France since Covid and Brexit Germany 2018 4.052 trillion USD (2018)4.526 trillion USD Germany today and Germany. This is the issue people bashing Brexit but the uk has grown far more than its peers since Brexit.
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  869. When do we stop blaiming brexit lol
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  870. People are so far in the uk as they would rather eat macds than cook
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  871.  @daftgowk1  don’t worry we will have 6.5% unemployment soon maybe they can do the work.
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  872. i guess the snp will blame this on the tories as well lol
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  873.  @Tom_-  I agree there the only difference I see is when inflation went up starmer was saying the tories were dishonest and killing the economy now it’s going up with Labour in power they are still blaming the tories when they had all the answers when the tories were in power. lol
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  874. That’s the thing Poland lost millions of workers has a lot of space to rebuild the uk gained millions of workers with little space and little homes built.
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  875.  @lucyorange6404  all the money was already given to the bankers by the last labour government all 1.2 trillion of it.
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  876.  @ChrisM541  the left wing uk tax payer wants it. I keep seeming migration is not the issue and don’t lock them up. With no answer where to put them. Only 200k rentable homes left in the uk. Then they wonder why prices go up. Lol
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  877. Poor old Spain they now know they need uk money.
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  878. well everyone shops online now
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  879. Ireland has not overtaken the uk it has a few rich companies who are there as it’s a tax haven Ireland has the same issues if not worse than the uk for its normal citizens
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  880. Yep much better
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  881. Yep it looks like it German gdp growth -0.2% France -0.1% Ireland -1.3%
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  882. What makes me funny is the uk think it’s the only place that is f***ked lol and the only place with inflation.
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  883. Of course it matters the people who will buy these homes are big landlord groups not the people renting so rents will go up as supply goes down.
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  884. Really then why did this happen in 2009 last time I looked the uk was in the eu
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  885.  @goodquestion8064  that’s because he worked now they expect the state to keep them.
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  886.  @goodquestion8064  depends where they live, plenty of people do it.
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  887. Funny we keep being told it’s all brexit and it’s not happening in the eu.
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  888. No overspending and printing money is. This causes inflation. People in the uk would rather sign on to benefits than work. Watch the c4 program on the welfare crisis, 900k people a month are being written off work never to work again. You cannot keep this up keep printing money is causing inflation. If this keeps up rates cannot drop as if they do then inflation will go up even more.
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  889. good would rather have all that than a bunch of unskilled people
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  890. yep and the bankers won again thank you tax payer
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  891. Still not sure how the eu has won lol remainers still cannot move to the eu as there is no fom. Lol eus unemployment is still going up and no where to send their dole cues.
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  892.  @joshuastebbing7408  issue is no one would want the lazy only the uk.
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  893. Issue is who in the uk will work, their benefits are the same as the 26k that the overseas workers get plus the overseas workers have to pay 2k for visas and 640 for the nhs surcharge and get no benefits yet can still have a decent life yet the Brits cry the nasty tories are not giving them enough free tax money the foreigners pay in.
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  894. Frank was a legend, Tyson was an animal, loved watching these two growing up. What a nice guy frank is.
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  895. You mean Labour are doing that not the boe.
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  896. Don’t worry labour will be in soon to sell the rest of the gold to give to us bankers.
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  897. Now you know why the uk voted out of the eu all that unskilled labour drove down salaries since the uk left the eu salaries are finally going up. Wage growth is going up where in Germany it’s very low now all that low skilled work that went to the uk will go to Germany and france. United Kingdom 6.5 7.2 % Belgium 6.33 9.03 % Cyprus 6.2 7.5 % Norway 6.06 5.06 % European Union 5.8 5.1 % Euro Area 5.3 4.6 % Ireland 4.6 4.5 % Sweden 4.3 4.2 % Spain 4.22 5.05 % France 4.2 4.6 % Finland 3.4 7.2 % Switzerland 1.8 1.8 % Germany 0.6 0.1 % Slovakia -0.6 -2 % Czech Republic -0.8 -2.8 % Iceland -1 2.6
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  898. The same politicians that give almost as much to welfare as to the nhs. That’s the issue people have become far to lazy and always want more then blame the rich.
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  899.  @jackwatsonepic626  it’s because the normal working person take out more than they pay in there the issue. No 55% of the population take out more than they pay in.
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  900. why when you can get free money from other tax payers and free homes and never have to work
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  901. Can you tell me why many eu countries have lower gdp growth than the uk then if being in the same eu is so great
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  902.  @peterebel7899  actually too will find that is Germany oh wait they are still on the eu.
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  903.  @peterebel7899  funny though you go on about Russia and the uk it’s the eu including Germany buying still from Russia it seems the eu is more in bed with Russia than the uk. Can you tell me why Germany and the rest of the eu are still giving Russia money please.
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  904.  @peterebel7899  can you also tell me why Germany has the lowest gdp growth in the g7 please if being in the eu is so great and good for one’s economy
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  905.  @peterebel7899  can you also tell me why most of the eu is in recession and the uk is not Euro Area 0 -0.1 % European Union 0 -0.1 % France 0 0 % Greece 0 1.1 % United Kingdom -0.1 0 % Luxembourg -0.14 -0.2 % Slovenia -0.2 1 % Germany -0.3 0 % Lithuania -0.3 0 % Netherlands -0.3 -0.4 % Norway -0.5 -0.5 % Denmark -0.7 -0.7 % Ireland -0.7 -1.9 % Moldova -0.8 -0.6 % Finland -0.9 0.3 % Estonia -1.3 -0.6 % Iceland -3.8 1.6 %
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  906.  @peterebel7899  yet are still buying Russian gas please explain why no money from the uk is going to Russia only from the eu.
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  907.  @peterebel7899  that’s funny as I was reading the uk take gas from the eu and with the sanctions on Russia cannot get Russian gas yet Germany France and Hungary all in the eu are buying Russian gas so the uk has said this cannot be in the uk supply chain. Please explain why the eu is still sending billions to Russia please.
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  908.  @peterebel7899  even dw Germans station is calling on Germany to stop Russian gas it seems it’s to reliant on it it would suggest the eu is more of a friend to putin than the uk.
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  909.  @peterebel7899  can you explain this then UK heads for EU showdown as Russian gas keeps flowing Minister will demand a united front on liquefied natural gas trades, to maintain pressure on Putin and protect the UK’s import ban. Seems the eu in bed with Russia not the uk.
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  910. The issue in the uk is not the government it’s the lazy people. Why want money for nothing. Want stupid rises and if they don’t get them show their laziness by going on strike they think they are hitting the rich going on strike they are not they are hitting the poorer people on many occasions do not get paid if they miss work. Inflation is great for the rich as they tend to have big bank accounts and get nice rates they don’t have a mortgage. Time for the lazy to wake up.
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  911. Yep all the people on benefits no better than the billionaires take out and pay nothing in why us paye pay for everything.
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  912.  @fyank1  do you have a source for this has this fraud stopped now Labour is in.
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  913. UK people would rather be on benefits complaing that the rich are taking all the money rather than go to work and make their own or find an idea and create their own business. They think taxing the few working people to pay for their laziness is the answer. You are wrong on sick pay also depends on the company, I was off for 10 days with a broken hip and I got full pay. my coworker had cancer and was off for almost a year full pay.
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  914. @ hope I work in the private sector
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  915. So they don’t want any power yet their offices are full of computers lol maybe they should live by what they say. Maybe time for them to use old methods of writing down. Stones and rocks.
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  916. Haha remainers will hate this Germany and most of the eu still shrinking the uk exports at all time highs and the economy growing. Brexit working
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  917. What the uk should do is stop petrol and electric and gas for a week and when riots happen say attack climate activists
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  918.  @alldaysmile24 nice weather in Poland what drugs are you smoking
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  919. @ they all have far higher youth unemployment than the uk go check seems Brexit hurting the eu more hey lol
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  920. @ I love Brexit means people like you will be unemployed forever and your never be able to leave for your eu well they have no work for you anyway
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  921. Funny seems the British car industry has been killed off since the 70s last time I looked the uk was in the eu. Looks like being in the eu did not help the uk car industry yet brexit is the thing that killed it off.
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  922.  @zfunk  so being in the eu killed off more of it then lol
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  923.  @zfunk  and yet being in the eu decimated the uk car industry hey lol
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  924.  @zfunk  I think your find ford went via eu grants to other parts of the world. Again the eu killing the British car industry. Ford left the uk is 2013 last time i looked brexit happened in 2016 2013: End of production At midday on Wednesday, 26 July 2013, Ford ended more than 100 years of vehicle manufacturing in the UK, with end of assembling Transit vans, by moving production of the next generation Transit to the Ford Otosan plant in Turkey. So yep again the eu killed the uk car industry
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  925.  @zfunk  Nissan has not left the uk since brexit and your find are still making cars in the uk. But ford left the uk while the uk was in the eu.
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  926.  @zfunk  the uk did not know about brexit in 2013 you moron. More companies left the uk while the uk was in the eu. Can you tel me why Tesla was not in the uk before brexit? While the uk was in the eu.
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  927.  @dutchuncle3310  na the uk people are just lazy the benefits system is too good not to work that is the issue here. There are plenty of skilled work and plenty of people doing degree but we cannot hire Brits as they seem to want to be managers from day one without working up. Eveyone we have highered recently are from the USA, oz and nz or South Africa.
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  928.  @dutchuncle3310  might be low compared to the other countries but they don’t live in the other countries they live in the uk and still don’t want to work. If it was more even less would work. When you can get bens up to 50k there really is no point working as a Brit
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  929. Prices cannot go down if they so your bankrupt everyone. Once you put people into negative equity you cause more issues issue with the uk is you rely to much on foreign workers doing all the jobs. So you import more people than you can build homes.
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  930. Funny I thought there were no shortages anywhere other than the uk and it’s all to do with brexit.
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  931. Funny in the uk and USA the biggest families are the ones who cannot afford them but then again the idiot tax payer pay for them and when they don’t they call the governments nasty. Korean and Japanese girls are so hot not sure why the birth rate is dropping. Sounds like the government there is helping.
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  932. Because the snp give them too much free money and the idea they will be independent not understanding all this free money comes from London tax payers.
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  933. Did my bit two half Japanese children. Hopefully we can move back to Japan one day though. Just so hard to get jobs. Will have to be when I retire I guess.
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  934. Nice more remainers to cry they cannot afford their home loans lol while us who live within our means can and get nice savings too. Funny how these same moaners were not complaining in 2008 when the rate was the same.
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  935. Don’t worry with the 45% capital gains tax coming in most people won’t be able to buy to rent out now.
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  936. That’s why wages are so low, why would companies pay more when people complain at the government to top them up not the companies they work for.
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  937. Uk also grew 0.6% the eu only 0.3% lol
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  938. Yet you vote for Labour every 4 years and you blame the tories don’t worry labour will be in soon let’s see how much money they give Liverpool
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  939.  @alexjames7144  Labour have been in power in the north for 100 years and it’s never been rich why is that
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  940.  @alexjames7144  don’t worry labour will be in soon and the north will still be poor and bankrupt who will you blame then
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  941. maybe people need to get off benefits and get jobs
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  942. The hypocrisy of the left this morning cried that Putin made Brexit then doing all they can to get the democrats in.
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  943. Well everyone wants to come to the uk even with brexit no one wants to go to the eu. This is why every eu nations population is declining. The only people who want to be in the eu are remainers and they cannot go as they are too thick to get visas.
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  944.  @noelfleming3567  I take it you are one of the lazy remainers who cannot move to the eu and you are calling me a clown atleast I can move country on a visa. Thick remainer. You might want to take a long hard look at your thick clown self.
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  945. Labour voters don’t care they will vote for more crime under labour just because they hate the tories as they don’t give them enough free money.
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  946. Funny that 500k more came to the uk than left last year. Lol
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  947.  --  check again
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  948. as a yank myself they hate all of us as they are all too lazy to work. They cry we take their jobs but not one of them wants to work.
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  949.  @Tymbus  its always the tories really its nothing to do with the tories if you lazy brits actually started working and paying in tax you would not need us here. its your lazy fellow countrymen
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  950.  @UkraineNeeds  really you think the next lot will be better this is nothing to do with the parties this is your lazy countrymen why dont you all get off your lazy keysters and work. In my country you dont get benefits for working 16hrs you need these lazy good for nothings to get working.
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  951.  @roc7880  issue with the uk is too many lazy people who would rather work 16hrs a day for the same 26k paid for by us overseas workers. that is why its lost need to scrap these benefits asap get all you lazy good for nothings working the best thing the uk could do is deport these brits.
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  952.  @nicks4934  at least Johnson pays tax the lazy take out.
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  953. Funny no shortage here in Surrey
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  954. Food going up I just bought 15p potatoes, 15p carrots, 15p parsnips, chicken is cheap at 4poind for 1kg really food prices are down a lot petrol is now 1.30 a litre now the cheapest it’s been in a long time what are you talking about.
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  955.  @davidlawrence942  still cheap as chips if you cannot afford to eat this time of the year there is something wrong with
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  956.  @davidlawrence942  or I’m just a person that works and is not a lazy benefit scrounger who rather than asks the tories for more money I work and get a pay rise from my boss. Maybe you should try it.
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  957.  @davidlawrence942  petrol where I live is 134 I live in Surrey
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  958.  @davidlawrence942  if you cannot afford to live ask your boss for a rise I got a 8% rise this year I work I don’t ask the nasty tories for money you lazy Brits complain yet not one of you work. The petrol in the uk is the cheapest since I moved 8 years ago.
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  959.  @davidlawrence942  there is an app called petrol prices if you are still paying 147 you are being ripped off or lying. But never met a Brit who tellls the truth petrol in the uk is far more expensive than the USA where I am from but this is the cheapest I have seen it. But really I have never met a Brit who works all you do is rely on us foreigners for your benefits you are lazy and good for nothing cry babies.
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  960.  @davidlawrence942  petrol gone up to 137 today but still 10p cheaper than you suggest
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  961. what and lose 25% of the value over night are you willing to pay more for things
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  962.  @firstpostcommenter8078  that is why the uk will never rejoin the eu.
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  963. Funny they seem to be getting more migrants today in Italy and Greece and none deported
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  964.  @Jebediahmosiah  IT jobs can be done remote to these days so you can live anywhere and may pay 6 figure salaries.
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  965. @ that is said from the lazy you do understand most skilled jobs can be work from home these days this is why the lazy will always be poor because of people like you. Telling them they cannot do something and getting likes for it the lazy cannot go to the USA or oz as they only want skilled workers they don’t want the lazy.
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  966. @ that seems very low for a security engineer I work in cyber engineering in a Japanese bank and get paid far more than that. I work 40hrs a week and usually about 10 hrs over time.
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  967. @ I used to work in security in dlp and risk but moved over to pen testing
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  968. @ do you have crest, if so you should be able to get into banking easy and be paid 80k upwards
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  969.  @flitsertheo funny Spain is missing the Brits so bad now they have created a golden visa . Seems they want Brits again lol
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  970. According to remainers it won’t. According to remainers it’s only the uk suffering no other country in the world has inflation and no supply chain issues it’s only the uk.
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  971. Not growing at 0.1% it won’t lol
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  972. If it’s racist can she tell me why my wife and I and my kids need to pay 2k a pop every 2.5 years to stay in the uk plus 640 each for the nhs surcharge surely that is racist. 10560 every 2.5 years it seems they love our money.
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  973. I have lived in many counties the grass is not always greener on the other side there are many high paying jobs in the uk.
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  974. The issue with England in the 6 years I have been here is the English are lazy not one of them wants to work they expect everything for free while not working from the few of us who work and pay tax. If the government don’t pay them enough of tax payers money they cry they are nasty rather than get off their lazy butts and work. I have worked all over the world and the uk is the only country where they pay their people to work 16hrs and the test is topped up by the hard working tax payer. If you don’t work around the world you either get some benefits until you find a job or nothing in the uk they give you benefits not to work forever. The lazy are taking Money away from the disabled.
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  975.  @FreaksSpeaks  na it won’t rents are going sky high now it will come as many people go into negative equity as they bought at the highest point or 2 year fixed rates.
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  976. The issue with the nhs is lazy Brits the nhs costs 4266 a year for each person in the uk the avg Brit warns 30k this means the avg Brit only pays in 2666 for ni per year, ni pays from the nhs and pensions in the uk. Brits want a decent nhs but it seems they don’t want to pay for it. Brits need to get off their lazy butts and start working not just taking benefits
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  977. Where would he go his a think remainer now fom had gone he cannot leave
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  978. Finally the uk has some common sense on my visa if I commit a crime I get deported. How was she able to stay. If you are born to foreign parents you have two nationalities. You get deported what do British left wing not understand about this.
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  979. The issue with the uk is white Brits have become lazy reliant on benefits. They cry the nhs is bad and wages are bad yet never ask their bosses for rises they ask the nasty tories if they don’t pay them more tax payers money they go mad.
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  980. Sad times when you have to rely more on overseas soldiers to fight for your country than its own people. Loved watching the Gurkhas in Singapore. They are great soldiers. I guess soon the uk will need to take more and more to fight for the uk.
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  981. The eu has killed off any european companies. It’s too uncompetitive.
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  982. It’s great here I just had a hip replacement it was totally free well only my nhs surcharge and my tax and ni costs I spent 10 days in hospital and on check out I get 2 physios 2 days a week up until last month and the nhs kitted out my home with everything I need. In the USA this would of cost me atleast 40k on top of what the insurance paid out people in the uk complain about the nhs but they are will miss it when it’s gone.
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  983.  @luckyrobp  then why are labour in power in London? Wasn’t it in the manifesto or did they no know what they were voting for. The other parties clearly stated they would stop ulez yet khan got in again so yes they did vote for it.
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  984. Ireland can send them back to France why is it not. They came from France.
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  985. These new trade deals show who the real gammons are and it’s not brexiteers. Seems people who love the eu only want to trade with ic1 counties. Shows they are the real racists.
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  986.  @Hiram8866  not it does not 104 billion goes on the elderly 194 billion goes on people on benefits almost as much goes on bens as goes to the nhs. That is just wrong.
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  987.  @sevecc939  that’s the issue they are taking money that should be used for the nhs. There companies should be paying more not the tax payer. Tax payers money should be used for pensions, the disabled and people who lost their jobs and are looking for work. Not someone who only wants to work 16hrs so they don’t get sanctioned. They are only doing this because of austerity and the cuts other wise they would not be working.
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  988. No to reduce prices you need to put up rates as well as build around 3 million homes a year. Issue is in the uk with the 22 million on some form of benefits and wanting the tax payer to pay their rents this will never happen. You need migration to build the homes and this takes away the homes. Migrants work and have to pay visas and the nhs surcharge as well as tax and ni and still can afford the rents in the uk as they are cheaper than in their countries.
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  989. these people got 80k per week
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  990. Can we send all remainers to France
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  991. Shortage of homes once rates come down prices will go up again. Too many people coming into the uk and no homes being built. It’s simple
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  992. Best thing being back national service. Get all the druggies off the streets.
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  993. I guess ai will have to take jobs no one wants to work in the uk, I have had two jobs in the uk and the avg person in offices is now 47, when I started work it was about 25. Where is the work force coming from to replace the people about to retire.
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  994.  @moragmckay3779  people in London also pay far more to live pay far more in tax than people outside of London pay.
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  995.  @kanedNunable  then they should ask for a pay rise from their bosses not the tax payer. Low earners pay very little to no tax. They tend to get uc back from their wages. People on over 50k get little to nothing back so this will help them.
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  996.  @kanedNunable  why do low income workers always expect the people earning money to pay for them. We work hard to get over 50k I can’t spell I’m dyslexic yet I can earn over 50k really time for people to start working.
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  997.  @moragmckay3779  people on minimum wage get uc and other benefits so are getting back this is actually giving to people who don’t get anything back it’s always the people on over that suffer if you are 1 pound over the 50k you get nothing so this really is good for people working and paying the most in getting back for once.
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  998.  @hermetic_wizard777  people earning 5 million a year don’t pay no trust me they ship their money offshore and pay 0 tax in the uk
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  999.  @hermetic_wizard777  people earning 5 million a year are smart enough to have accountants not to pay tax. This is not just under the tories but all party’s who have been in. The people who pay all the tax in the uk are paye and on above 50k to 150k
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  1000.  @moragmckay3779  the people who are worse off are one person incomes on 50k who lost child benefits and also has to pay more ni now they are better off they also had no access to uc and housing benefits unlike people on minimum wage who even got the cost of living payments. Sorry I do not feel sorry for people who claim uc rather than ask their bosses for pay rises.
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  1001.  @moragmckay3779  a person on 26k only pays £2,686 tax a year and National Insurance £1,343 a person on 50k pays 7486 a year and 3732 in ni. Gets no child benefits or any help at all. Really it’s time they got something back.
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  1002.  @moragmckay3779  the people who are always worse off are the people working. The same people who pay the most in and are expected to pay for the people who work the least. Now we are actually getting something back it’s always the people who want the benefits and pay the least in want the most. It’s about time they get less back.to me the one thing I think is still unfair is child benefits as now a family earning 170k can still get child bens but a person earning 80k cannot. This is the only thing I think should change and it should be done on household income.
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  1003.  @moragmckay3779  they are paying in less yet always want more back why should people who earn more always get less back to pay for people who pay in nothing. I am sick and tired of getting nothing back and always paying more in. When we finally get something back the people who always win cry. If they are working it’s time for them to start asking their bosses for rises not people earning more to pay more to pay for them.
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  1004.  @moragmckay3779  it’s because they expect the nasty tories to give them a rise not their boss. You never see them ask their bosses for a rise but you always hear them calling out the nasty tories for not giving them enough top ups hey.
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  1005.  @moragmckay3779  don’t worry labour will be in soon I’m sure they will tax the rich a lot and pay everyone on minimum wage 20 quid an hr. Not
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  1006.  @moragmckay3779  no I don’t I worked for a living from the age of 16 start asking your boss for a rise or look for another job it’s simple it’s want we all do we don’t all ask the nasty tories for a rise.when I want a rise I ask my boss for one. If I don’t get one I look for another job when I get a new job I quit my old one. How hard for is to understand that is how you move up in the world. The issue for people like you is you always expect people like me to pay for people like you. To me benefits should not go to working people they should go to people looking for work and the disabled. The people always expecting benefits for working are taking away from the real people who need it.
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  1007.  @moragmckay3779  you never know you did not ask.
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  1008.  @moragmckay3779  to me the places I want my tax to go are to the disabled, people looking for work the nhs and pensions not people working
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  1009.  @moragmckay3779  one thing you have to be greatful for is you actually get a pension I pay a stupid amount of tax and won’t get one.
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  1010.  @moragmckay3779  thatcher has been dead god knows how many years and labour were in since her you can’t blame her for everything also there were no in work benefits in the uk in the 80s people lived ok now there are and you still seem to have poverty there were no obese in the 80s now people are as big as houses eat stupid amounts of calories and still say they are poor while walking around with god knows how many tattoos, trout lips that cost 1000s and smoke. You can’t make it up.
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  1011.  @moragmckay3779  don’t worry labour will be in again soon let’s see what they do for you again I’m sure nothing and all the money they give to the work shy will just end the pensions quicker. You boomers are the ones who had the cheap homes and you still cry have the pensions and still cry. We won’t have pensions but we are paying for you we don’t have cheap homes. You blame thatcher but atleast you got cheap homes and pension. Under the last Labour gov who sold all the gold and gave 1.2 trillion of our money to the bankers we will have nothing introduced in work benefits for the work shy. Who still claim they are poor. Maybe people should learn to live within their means make food rather than live on mac Donald’s and kfc.
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  1012.  @3llusiiv331  no they will not be people on higher wages have bigger homes etc. so that is not true people on lower wages always pay less and also get things back like the covid support payments etc.
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  1013.  @3llusiiv331  are you really telling me you pay the same council tax as someone in a band f home. You lazy people need to get off your keysters and work. I really cannot see why you want the tax payer to always pay for you. Why can’t you work? God I can’t spell I’m dyslexic and have adhd but I can work. I am sick and tired of the lazy always having excuses of why they cannot work. Get a job and get off your butts. Stop relying on everyone else.
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  1014. Hope everyone in Japan is safe glad my family in Japan are safe in Akita.
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  1015. Too true I have no debt as soon as I get paid 10% of my pay goes to savings to buy for things if I need them if I don’t then I save it. Pay my morg, bills and anything left after that I over pay my morg.
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  1016.  @Ih8nine  only if you want to keep up with the Jones.
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  1017.  @NotfromDetroit  they will when debt is 7%
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  1018. Sure is the uk grew by 0.6% the eu only 0.3% seems the eu doing pants
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  1019.  @tgcrowson  the euro zone is falling again the uk is way above the euro zone now the euro zone only grew 3% the uk 4.2% world bank figures the euro zone is falling behind the uk. The uk exports are up and the uk is now the 4th largest exporter too the eu falling behind there. Finance we were told the eu would take all of the finance from the uk.london still 2nd and not one euro country in the top 10. With Paris and Frankfurt actually falling down the rankings. Fom not working out for the eu unemployment up in all eu countries bar Germany. With youth unemployment through the roof in all eu countries. Seems that all that unskilled eu labour could only move to the uk and with the uk out of the eu where is all that fom going.
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  1020.  @tgcrowson  the uk has only left the eu in the last 2 years really so it will take time to know what Brexit has done to the uk but it’s looking good so far all the periods what you suggest the uk was in a tradition period and all had to follow the eu. The the last two years the uk has been out performing the eu and will continue to do so. As it’s not stuck in a trade agreement that allowed unskilled migration. The eu is stuffed now as it has no where for its unskilled migration to go to. Uk people who wanted to remain in the eu have no skilled to offer anyone also so are sad because their dream of retiring in an English pub in Spain are in tatters.
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  1021.  @tgcrowson  to me the uk will only get stronger outside of the eu. The uk is striking more and more trade deals. It’s also able to bring it what it needs and sell to anywhere. I don’t see any issues in ni. The uk works better now with Ireland and Ireland are not in the eu borders area and still has the cta. The uk is showing what it can do now it’s not in the transition period anymore. It’s out growing the eu wage growth is also at 6% in the eu it was negative people got poorer year on year over the last 20 years in the eu with fom and low skilled wage migration. Now the uk has to take people on visas that get paid far more than minimum wage. People now have no recorse to bans and the company now has to prove they cannot hire a Brit. That last part is not hard because most Brits I have met in my 8 years of being in the uk as as thick as two planks. But hopefully when they stop crying they will finally get skilled up.
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  1022. got to love how many people are sticking up for people who stole 50 million from the hard working tax payer. because they hate the tories. sad
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  1023. Anyone protesting should be made to take them home with them.
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  1024. It’s not the politicians that are allowing this to happen it’s the people. If you don’t like them not paying tax cancel your subscriptions and boycott them. You only get change with strike action as we see with the nurses and trains. Boycott Amazon too. Why are they going to pay tax when the people don’t care.
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  1025. I’m sure the nhs wastes money on employees they don’t need so the public have a go at the government. Really people need to be asking why the nhs is wasting money on these staff and not paying nurses and drs more. It’s time to just stop chucking hard earned tax payers money at the nhs and have an overhaul of where the 219 billion a year is spent.
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  1026. Yep 12 years of a government giving free handouts, the people have got lazy and would rather work 16hrs a week because they get more money than working full time. A government that rather than tells people to work gives them handouts. A government that has borrowed 2 trillion to pay for power for all households, cost of living money, forlough for 2.5 years a government they locked its people down for 2 years making them more lazy. Then what do they do complain they are not getting more free money.
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  1027. Can anyone tell me when France left the eu lol
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  1028. Don’t mind paying more tax as long as it goes to the nhs or pensions not to the lazy.
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  1029. There is a thing called a vote. When are dictators going to relise that.
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  1030. Like boa will pull out of the uk
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  1031. not with remainers on benefits, people need to start working get off the reliance on the tax payer, this nation has becoming lazy whingers, who rely too much on the nasty gov to give them all more free money.
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  1032. Funny all the remainers say the uk was so rich in the eu.
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  1033. really 750k people have come to the uk and can get jobs why cant lazy brits
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  1034.  @dlc2479  prices just went up again
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  1035. Too many lazy remoaners. Hating the uk because they lost their fom. They are too damn thick to move country without fom and too thick to even pick veg from farms they pay little to no tax and are part of the 55% taking out more than they pay in.
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  1036. Love how the Brits don’t want foreigners in the uk yet not one of you wants to work. Get off benefits and get a job.
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  1037. funny he had all the answers when he was in opposition thought it was all easy and all the money was just going in the tories back pocket and to their friends, now his in power where is all the money going then, is he still giving it all to the tories.
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  1038. The issue in the uk is they always give money to the work shy, they don’t give money to the people who earn a salary and are just about managing. The work shy have got cost of living payments while the people who earn 1 pound over the amount to claim get nothing. Yet they always go on about the work shy getting nothing and that the tories are nasty. Really it’s the working people who should get back tax not the work shy.
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  1039.  @DigiDriftZone  seems expensive I usually only pay 26 pounds in the uk go every 6 months
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  1040. @ why don’t you leave now.
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  1041. France would just throw up their arms in 2 mins.
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  1042. So there was no recession under labour then. Funny how everyone forgets that. Only happens under the tories.
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  1043.  @antonio3220  so why do you ignore it then and say it’s only the tories
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  1044.  @anonitachi6966  yet you are blaiming the tories for global inflation, the covid pandemic and the war in Ukraine. Now arnt you
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  1045.  @anonitachi6966  why can you blame a party for global issues yet I cannot say there was a recession under labour. That is what makes you labour morons hypocrites.
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  1046.  @anonitachi6966  labour did a decent job of saving the rich by selling all the gold and giving 1 trillion to the bankers. When they should of bailed out the poor. Not one person had more than 80k in the banks yet they are the ones paying for it all from their taxes.
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  1047.  @anonitachi6966  one more thing when million were being laid off in the financial crisis how much did labour give each person to help them out. Oh wait nothing during covid the tories have 80% of people salaries, they gave people money for the cost of living crisis. What did labour and the Bank of England do. Put rates to 0% and borrowed stupid amounts that is causing inflation today as you cannot borrow and keep rates down forever. But yep it’s all the tories. Maybe study how inflation works you labour fool but you won’t because your a moron.
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  1048.  @anonitachi6966  not avoid nothing your the one who has not answered the question.
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  1049.  @anonitachi6966  to me of course the tories have done wrong and so did labour but you think they did no wrong hey. Bailing out the rich. But again you labour voters don’t understand anything other than voting red.
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  1050.  @anonitachi6966  not avoiding anyhing you said you said labour did a great job and bailing you the banks. Who did they do that for the rich or the poor. Can you tell me who is paying back in their taxes for their bailout and don’t tell me it’s the rich.
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  1051.  @anonitachi6966  people like you really need to look at what you have caused the world in your voting. Stop blaiming the tories and take a look at yourself.
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  1052.  @anonitachi6966  hypocrisy at its best.
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  1053.  @anonitachi6966  people like you say that because you bailed out the rich. You need to take responsibility for the way the world is today and the high inflation. People like you are the scum of the world the capitalist globalists. You need to take a long hard look at yourself. You hate the tax breaks to the bankers yet think nothing of giving them a trillion pounds. You truly are scum. You hate that the tories gave money to everyone, you hate that the tories gave 80% of peoples salaries you hate that the tories have everyone money for their bills. But you love that the labour government put rates to zero and gave so much money to the bankers.
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  1054. @UCGt3zhhl2hM5qY-8Yl7AWJA only one party sold off all the hospitals for expensive homes.
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  1055.  @daleb5283  they don’t care about that as they are not dying of covid .
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  1056.  @timtreefrog9646  that will never happen who sold it off has already wasted the money.
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  1057.  @timtreefrog9646  it is the nhs fault funny they have 50,000 people on 100k salaries but cannot pay nurses on a 219 billion maybe get rid of 25000 people on 100k
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  1058. Good why don’t the uk say only English. If you don’t speak English or write in English no benefits.
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  1059. Selling it to pfi and then blaming each other for doing it lol
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  1060.  @antonydyatlov5651 it it was labour who sold most of it off can’t make it up.
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  1061.  @richardbrooks4549 and it was labour who sold more to pfi than the tories did. Because of labour keeping pfi to buy the nhs back would cost 1 trillion.
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  1062. @ I am 40 now and as I said no where is any different you earn a pound and spend a pound here. When you earn the local currency it’s always going to be expensive. If you earn a pound and go to these countries you will find it cheap. Inflation across the world is so high. Most countries import everything these days from china so it’s the same everywhere bar the taxes.
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  1063. maybe if you worked you would be able to stand on your own too feet rather than rely on the tax payer for everything.
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  1064.  @aspie2901  so i take it you dont work.
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  1065.  @manvbees  just an excuse not to work. Far easier to claim mental illness and not work than to get a job.
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  1066.  @aspie2901  instead you take money from the nhs and the disabled who need the money. Good one.
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  1067.  @greendragonspirit1646  well if they don’t get off their lazy keysters it will be worse I am surprised they are not asking the government to buy homes for them as they cannot afford them. lol
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  1068.  @robmc3338  I know labour voters are thick unemployed morons but you take the cake name one school that labour replaced the rack on please.
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  1069.  @pauln6803  all built by labour and now we are paying the price for cheaper rubbish thank you labour
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  1070.  @vera-anneandersonvee  you still have not told me what schools were upgraded under the 14 years labour were in power.
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  1071.  @vera-anneandersonvee  what has the bedroom tax got to do with building schools please name me one school that was upgraded by labour please
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  1072.  @vera-anneandersonvee  the reason bedroom tax was put in is because there are too many lazy Brits taking away from the disabled if you remember before labour came to power you got the dole or disabled benefits you were not paid to work. When labour came to power they started paying people to work. Then it got even more stupid they paid people to work only 16hrs while topping them up to a normal salary. Now it’s work 16hrs and get more than someone working full time. Now it’s you get benefits up to 50k the people in this country taking away from the disabled are not to tories but the lazy work shy who don’t do a proper job and pay in tax but the people who take take take. To me it needs to go back to the old days of the dole and disabled benefits. Spending 250 billion on welfare for lazy people is not sustainable we now have more people taking than paying in in the uk. I saw the last labour gov do nothing but blame the tories for 14 years they were in power and I’m sure they will be in another 14 years let’s see what they do. Can’t see them doing much with little money 22 million work shy. Until we get these people off benefits and actually paying in more than they take out very little will be done. The other issue we have now is the people who are paying in more than they take out are getting pissed off no doing it as they see they are no better off than the person working 16hrs and getting paid the same as therm when free school meals for their kids and getting housing benefits there seems no point in working also when labour get in they promised they will pay even more in benefits as the Nasty tories have not topped up the lazy for so long so that means with all these pay rises the tax payer will pay the lazy it seems even more money will come from the few working to the work shy. So there will be even less working. I take it with your reply on the bedroom tax you are one of these work shy probably never worked a day in your life taken all the free money from us hard working tax payer and cry nasty tories not given me more free money. Don’t worry your labour sir stamer will be In soon to take more money from the working to give to you lazy people.
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  1073.  @vera-anneandersonvee  isn’t it funny all you lazy work shy go on about bedroom tax yet not one of you work still you all seem to still be living the lazy life on benefits why is that if you are all so poor.
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  1074. Really all countries should pay their 2% they should not expect the USA or UK too even the uk is not spending enough and as fallen behind South Korea for military power. The other eu countries are a joke France has fallen down 3 spots. It’s like eu counties don’t care about being able to defend against Russia. I guess as they are in bed with putin over gas.
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  1075. Really time for Brits to get jobs stop relying on the hard working foreigners to keep paying your benefits.
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  1076. Remainers will still be crying that the uk needs to rejoin the eu lol
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  1077.  @RazorMouth the us has one passport is one country the eu is not its only compared the same in a few eu counties not all are the same ie if a German goes to Japan and a Bulgarian goes to Japan they will have different requirements for visas if a person from California goes and Texas they will have the same visa requirements. The eu is not a country but a mix of 27 countries the USA has one military and has power the eu does not. You cannot compare the eu to the USA or china.
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  1078.  @mertm.995 not all eu counties have a high standard of living there are probably only about 5 counties in the eu that most people would want to live in. Really who goes to the rest other than holidays even the locals don’t want to live in them.
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  1079.  @claudioricci1 the pound is actually not the rise now against the yen it’s 187 today highest it’s been since 2015. The euro dropped today I would not suggest the euro is a strong currency it’s not.
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  1080.  @claudioricci1  the pound was 2.5 to an dollar in 1972 the pound lost over 1$ in the eu so the pound lost far more in the eu than out of it.
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  1081. Anyone who does not want the tax cut can always send the money to the inland revenue.
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  1082. What I want to know is the euro crisis over as it’s still below parity with the dollar.
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  1083. Don’t worry you will get your mum and dads home when they are gone
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  1084. Funny how labour going on about Putin meddling in our elections and they do the same in the USA lol
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  1085. Like you work get off benefits and get a job
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  1086.  @dambrooks7578  funny as it was eu chicken that killed people in the uk. Sfc polish chicken maybe the eu should check their own meat.
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  1087.  @earnestequivocation6250  brexit is the best remoaners are the issue when will you except democracy
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  1088.  @dibdab101  really You have a job what is it working in a restaurant on 16hr 0 hr contract and in work bens taking out more from the system than you pay in. The reason you have not loved back to that lovely eu. If you love the eu so much why don’t you move back. I thought the uk was a racist place now and no place for you 7 million eu people funny how not one of you have moved back hey. The one good thing about brexit any new eu people coming in cannot get benefits. To me you should be treated like the rest of us people from overseas you should be made to pay for visas and the nhs surcharge all you eu people do is take and don’t give back.
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  1089.  @dibdab101  to me after brexit the Brits should of moved you all to work visas and made you pay for the nhs surcharge. Should of striped all eu people of benefits. People should not take from a system until you become pr and have paid in. Every eu person I have met here is on bens and gets housing benefits. It’s crazy.
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  1090.  @drunkensailor112  you don’t need punctuation to work you do however need skills when will you eu and Brits get them then you might not need people like me here paying your bens.
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  1091.  @RedToriesBlueTories  when will people like you start working.
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  1092.  @dambrooks7578  they might do but they are still part of the uk until they join the south they don’t seem to have a choice. They should start by trying to get their parliament back together and working at leaving the uk then hey.
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  1093.  @MrTipperX  until that happens and ni leave the uk they are still part of it and need to follow uk rules not eu rules.
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  1094.  @dibdab101  the only xenanobes are the eu people why do you hate anyone who is not white and European why do you think you should be treated better than the 1.2 million people who have come to the uk on visas please tell me. Why if your not a xenophobe do you refer to them as 3rd citizens i my country we treat all people from overseas the same it’s only you eu people that think your better than everyone else. I guess that comes from your empire attitude.
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  1095.  @drunkensailor112  maybe go back to school and you might get a job. That is the issue again with you Brits think your so smart yet 55% of you Brits and eu people are on bens taking out more than you pay in and you wonder why you have issues in your county. Don’t worry about punctuation worry about getting the skills to get a job.oh but why would you someone else is paying your way.
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  1096.  @dibdab101  you mean taking out for 30 years if you in my country you would of got nothing until you paid in that is the trouble with the eu. You lot think your contributing no one of you actually checks what you pay in to what you take out. I remember my polish friend telling me he had 4 kids back home and the reason he loved the uk is they pay for his kids not even Poland pay for them. He works in a well known pizza shop on minimum wage. Pays little in tax and ni and gets uc and housing bens on top. If he was in my county he would get nothing. So his taking out more than paying in. That is the issue here you all take out far more than you pay in and it’s the migrants like me paying for it all. That is why the uk has to leave the eu. The mass migration of the 7 million eu people taking out so much is unsustainable. You are the xenophobic people not us. We are realistic we come here earn money and pay in you take out and you hate us for it.
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  1097.  @dibdab101  I do love people like you though saying you contributed, maybe you should look at your tax and ni there is a little HMRC app you can download put in your ni number and see really what you paid in you you took out. I bet in the 6 years I have been here I have paid in more than you in 30 years.
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  1098.  @dibdab101  why do I think people from overseas should be treated equal. Because we are all equal your the one who thinks you should be treated better than everyone else. Do you think if you go to oz, nz or the USA that you will get benefits for not working if you have paid nothing in. Do you think they are xenophobic for treating all foreigners the same. If not why do you think the uk is a xenophobic country. The only place that is full of xenophobic racist is the eu. Your the ones who think one race of people are better than another and if they are not from there they are 3rd rate. Maybe really have a look at yourself. You think the uk is a racist place now and people like me are racist and xenophobic because we want to treat everyone the same and we think eu people should be also. That is xenophobic in your book. However xenophobia is treating people differently because of creed or culture and that is what your lovely eu is doing. So maybe better calling me xenophobic look at yourself.
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  1099.  @earnestequivocation6250  poor old eu gdp growth please explain to me why all these eu countries are below brexit uk looks to me as if brexit is hurting the eu far more United Kingdom 0 -0.2 Italy -0.1 0.5 Turkey -0.1 1.9 Finland -0.2 -0.3 Czech Republic -0.3 -0.2 Croatia -0.4 1.5 Germany -0.4 0.5 Hungary -0.4 -0.7 Greece -0.5 0.6 Iceland -0.5 3.7 Sweden -0.6 0.6 Austria -0.7 0.2 Serbia -0.7 1.2 Lithuania -1.7 1.6 Estonia -1.8 -1.3 Poland -2.4 1 Moldova -8.4 -2.8
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  1100.  @arthurdixon5890  I find to get a decent pay rise in the uk you need to move every few years or you need to make sure you keep upskilling. I find alot of british people only want to do the bare minimum to get paid though
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  1101.  @arthurdixon5890  you should not be working at 75 I find the people that are really lazy are the youth In my company there are very few people under the age of 40, when I started work most people were in their 20s times have changed in the uk.
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  1102.  @billykotsos4642  it’s not real money though and can be wiped out over night if the markets crashed.
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  1103. Who would join the police in this day and age. People won’t stop until their is no police left and it’s a crime ridden hell hole.
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  1104. where did you get that figure from according to HMRC 196 billion was spent on welfare another 102 billion on pensions 143 billion was spent on business. I take it you don’t pay tax in the uk. So you just grabbed a figure out of thing air. Only the nhs for more than people on benefits at 219 billion this year.
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  1105.  @steveparker8065  so you have paid tax and yet you have never checked your own statements So basically what you have posted is a lie can you let me know the source of your 120 billion and all these tax loop holes and offshore accounts. Seems to me that the people on the dole and nhs get the most in the uk. Health Health 219.4 21.9 Welfare ‘Social Protection’ excluding state pensions 196.0 19.6 Business & Industry Economic Affairs, without Transport 143.8 14.4 State Pensions[footnote 1] Within ‘Social Protection’ 101.2 10.1
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  1106.  @steveparker8065  not just this government all governments have miss managed the money the main miss management is to give people money for working.
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  1107.  @steveparker8065  the government should be helping out the jams or the ones earning just over 40k not the people who cannot be bothered to work.
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  1108.  @antonymossop3135  that’s most of the uk I see why you need so many people like me to come here and work. So you can have your free nhs.
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  1109.  @steveparker8065  I think your find labour did it was labour who brought in top ups for people working. Before the last labour gov came in you only got bens if you were unemployed or disabled.
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  1110.  @steveparker8065  so the solution was to pay people out of tax payers money. What a stupid solution why did they not raise the minimum wage to something like 20 pound an hr. Can you tell me why a company would pay more to someone when they know the tax payer will top them up. The tories are also so anti union at everyone is striking now lol. Can you tell me if there are no unions left how is everyone on strike.
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  1111.  @steveparker8065  are you really telling me no one is striking in the uk.
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  1112.  @steveparker8065  people cannot feed themselves because of the idiots who thought it was better to top peoples wages up rather than companies paying a decent wage. Again why are companies going to pay a decent wage when people like you think the government should pay people more not the companies. People like you want the government to pay more. Which takes money away from the disabled and the people who cannot work.
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  1113.  @steveparker8065  can you tell me why you want the government to top peoples wages up.
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  1114.  @steveparker8065  can you tell the people who cannot get to work because the train companies are on strike, can you tell that to the peoples families of the people who die because the nurses are on strike, can you tell that to the peoples families of the people who die because the ambulances and 999 services are on strike, can you tell that to the people who cannot get their mail due to Royal Mail being on strike. You really think people cannot strike anymore. Do you actually work. Or just another typical lazy Brit who thinks everyone should be paid by the government rather than work.
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  1115.  @steveparker8065  you still have not answered any question you said you do not want to debate with a guy who said they can strike. So yep you denied that they can strike.
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  1116.  @steveparker8065  so you are saying corporations should provide a living wage now but before you said the government should top up wages what is it.
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  1117.  @steveparker8065  the tories did not bring in the government topping up wages labour did.
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  1118.  @steveparker8065  to me striking is ok and I want them to strike more. They should strike to get a decent wage. However they will never get a decent wage while the government top up wages. Who would be stupid enough to pay more money when they know the government will top it up.
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  1119.  @steveparker8065  can you tell me when labour turned that around? Last time I looked when labour were last in the sold everything else and the gold. Can you tell me when labour changed workers rights. You blame the tories all the time but labour were in for 12 years before this 12 years of tories. To me they are both as bad as each other. These people though really are only striking for one thing more money. To me if they were striking for rights they would go on strike until the government change the laws. They would not return to work at all. Not just one day here and there.
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  1120.  @debb6393  seems labour are the ones taking credit for it. So really the nasty party then is labour not the tories.
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  1121. The only way prices will fall is if you put up rates, to build enough homes will take years you need to build atleast 500k homes a year to have an impact on prices.
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  1122. That’s funny when most of the biggest tax havens are in the eu. To start, Ireland, Netherlands and Luxembourg.
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  1123.  @peterebel7899  to me if they eu hated and wanted to get rid of tax havens then they would really start with their own house first.
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  1124.  @peterebel7899  yep doing such a great job educate yourself the 3 biggest tax havens are in the eu why do you ignore this
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  1125. They did the uk population did not want the 2500 cap now it’s been reversed and austerity coming in you get what the left wing media wanted.
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  1126. why is the uk sending people and money here, let the EU spend the money. UK needs to concentrate on its own country.
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  1127. Can see you know nothing about economics. You do understand the rich get rich by this sort of thing. When the markets crash it leads to qe, that pumps money into the markets, the rich borrow against this to make more money. This makes the markets go up more. The poor get poorer the rich get richer. The poor don’t invest in the markets.
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  1128. Shame the eu people in the uk won’t leave
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  1129. @ yes we do
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  1130. @ 4 million people leaving, that is over 1.5 million on low incomes, the nhs costs the avg person 4500 if your on minimum wage you pay no where near this in, there are only 10,000 eu people in government jobs teaching, the NHS etc so that would not make a big dent but it would remove 4 million from doctors, dentists etc, less burden on the state, it would also free up 2 million homes dropping rents etc. really the uk needs to start thinking about the uk. It would also stop child benefits leaving the uk for kids who don’t live in the uk giving money back to the uk. You think the only cost is the 4500 for the nhs the other money is on infrastructure etc. all of this is costing the uk.
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  1131. @ migration should only before people who can contribute, pay for visa, the nhs surcharge, tax and ni not for unskilled people who have nothing to offer.
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  1132. To many lazy people in the uk. They want everyone else to pay for them.
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  1133.  @4x4r974 no it’s because of in work benefits the Brits work 16hrs to get topped up the same as a person working 26k the Brits cry if the nasty tories don’t pay them more. Foreigners get 26k to come here on visas they pay 2000 for a visa and 640 for the nhs surcharge and never complain yet bits on 16hrs getting the same cry the cost of living is so bad get the foreigners out. Really time for the lazy Brits to work.
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  1134. yet uk grew 0.7% france 0.1% the eu 0.3% and germany 0.2% looks like brexit is winning
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  1135. Yet the uk is growing faster than the eu so how do you work that out what you mean is you have no education or skills to offer anyone so your stuck in your minimum wage job in the uk and your never be able to leave.
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  1136.  @user-pp9yk3tu4z  Brexit is doing its job of keeping thick remainers locked in prison.
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  1137.  @maxwild1212  no it’s not Japanese is im a foreigner in the uk. Can you speak Japanese
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  1138.  @maxwild1212  but this is not about English this is about the uk growth which is 0.6% and the eu at 0.3% English is not my first language and I’m a foreigner in the uk and can see the uk is doing better than the eu. Uk inflation is at 2.3% eu inflation is at 2.6% so the uk doing better than the eu. Remainers and eu people really need to check facts before posting. But rather than that they call out your English. Now this is why I can tell eu people and remainers are thick and needed their fom as they cannot move on visas.
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  1139.  @maxwild1212  what freedoms have been curtailed can you tell me how fom is working out for the eu with all that unemployment every eu country bar Germany has higher unemployment than the uk. Where are all these eu people moving to now the uk is out of the eu. What jobs would Brits get in the eu with all that unemployment. I’m at glad Brits and eu people have lost fom to the uk. People really need to move on merit what they can offer. Issue with most Brits and eu people is your all unskilled have little not on qualifications and hence why you cannot move country now. You had 6 year since the uk left the eu in that time you could of got a degree and a masters and the skills to move country in that time all you have done is cry you lost your fom to get unskilled minimum wage work.
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  1140.  @maxwild1212  wage growth since the uk left the eu is now 6% before the uk left the eu it was at -1.2% the uk was getting poorer and poorer since 1997. Now Germany has to take all that fom that came to the uk there wage growth is-1.7% so let’s see where Germany is in 5 years time. Now it’s taking all that unskilled migration that forced the race to the bottom. Wage growth of 6% is 3.7% above inflation which will take time for people to feel richer but it’s going to take the same time for Germans to become poorer. Let’s see what happens over then next 5 years. I’m doing fine in the uk on a visa as I work and understand where visas get you. People in my country do the minimum wage jobs as a stepping stone to getting better jobs. In the uk and the eu you cannot get better jobs as you import all the unskilled minimum wage work and don’t obtain the skills to move up so you have to import people like me to do them while you all cry that you have no skills your getting poorer and rely on benefits.
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  1141.  @maxwild1212  so what you are saying your thick and cannot get a visa to live anywhere. Isn’t it funny how remainers and eu people claim to be smart yet not one of you understands you can move on visas. Can you tell me with all that unemployment what job your likely to get in the eu.
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  1142.  @maxwild1212  with English as my 2nd language I can still get a visa to live in the uk on a thing called a visa. Brits claim to be smart yet are not smart enough to move country on merit.
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  1143.  @maxwild1212  to me I’m glad the uk came out of the eu as people like you should not be able to leave the country you have no skills to offer anyone
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  1144.  @maxwild1212  English is your first language and you have never heard of a rhetorical question. It’s why no one wants you on a visa and why you are locked in the uk. Before you ask someone if English is their first language study your own language.
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  1145. A man full of tattoos wow is that the the remainer these days. Lol man remainers are thick as too planks. Got that saying from a Brit mate or mine. Not one can move country on a visa they all seem to work on YouTube producing facts they spun up from out of no where. Got to love a remainer. Stuck on the rock they get crying daily on made up facts love it.
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  1146. It seems global warming never hit the uk trying to afford to hear their homes in the summer lol. Man Brits are just liars who hears their homes in the summer come on.
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  1147. Nice shame the Portuguese near me won’t leave all working in Nando’s pay little in taxes
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  1148. I do see why so many Brits are on benefits and taking government aka tax payers money if they are all as thick as you.
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  1149.  @yester9037  still has nothing to do with the government it was a tech who did it can you tell me which mp pulled the plug and broke it you idiot so that means it’s your problem as a tax payer then as technically you own it not the gov so I take it you broke it.
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  1150.  @chrisb.5891  yet what mp broke it please tell me
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  1151.  @outlawJosieFox  it’s a really shame the uk gov are not involved really Brits should not be allowed to leave this island if they are like you man you really need to be locked in jail. I am so glad smart Brits voted for brexit so morons like you cannot leave.
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  1152.  @alistairbeveridge2753  proof please
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  1153.  @lellyparker  proof please can you tell me which mp broke it please can you tell me which mp has the skills to update atc.
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  1154.  @douglasmacari8707  you keep saying this now give me the proof an mp did this please. I keep hearing nonsense and no evidence. the gov do not run the ATC they might own some stock in it does not give them any power to down size it or put an mp in there to do the job and mess it up now does it. please tell me the name of the mp that patched the system to cause this outage.
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  1155.  @alistairbeveridge2753  then show me all I am looking for is proof the government did it you all talk the talk but not one of you has sent me proof why is that. Oh wait because you are all unemployed labour morons who think the government does everything to make you poorer. Lol rather than looking at yourselves. I mean I do wish the government would stop you people travelling the world does not need you.
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  1156. @ it always has the difference is how all the borrowing for Covid and the financial crisis is causing mass inflation.
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  1157. @ forgot to add the mass borrowing on credit that people could only afford due to low rates is now catching up as people did not understand that rates can go up as well as down
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  1158. It’s keeping thick eu people out of the uk and thick Brits leaving the uk. Win win.
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  1159.  @MarkSmith-px3hd yet it’s Germany in the eu that is the sick man of Europe now hey can’t make it up.
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  1160. Seems the imf got it wrong again Germany is doing far worse than the uk. -0.4%
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  1161.  @belindathorne9784  and yet more eu people moved to the uk than Germany can’t make it up. Also over country of the eu has more nationals in the uk than the uk does in their country bar Spain. Why is that?
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  1162.  @belindathorne9784  isn’t it funny germany and all the eu countries are so rich and yet not one remainer left for the eu after brexit.
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  1163.  @belindathorne9784  the uk could not control its borders in the eu either hey. The uk is doing a better job of it now though with keeping low skilled minimum wage eu workers out who brought the race to the bottom with low pay and in work bens now you need a visa to come in and pay the same nhs surcharge as everyone else. Eu people also need to show a passport to enter the uk. I would suggest that is a start to controlling borders. Also from what I keep hearing looks like Ireland is taking more asylum seekers than the uk now. Lol great success. Let them flood Ireland the uk takes a small amount of asylum seekers compared to everywhere else and if you say it’s the uk who cannot control it’s borders can you tell me how Italy and Greece is going in the eu. Also if you think the uk gdp is low most eu countries have not even reached their 2007 gdp Greece for example was 318.9 billion in 2007 now 214.9 billion looks like Greece being in the eu is great success lol
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  1164. And the Tory mp will say something different
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  1165. Biden needs to care about American, American used to be the land of opportunity now it’s the land of the poor.
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  1166. Simple tell developers they need to build cheaper home.
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  1167. Yep caused people to be far to lazy in the uk don’t worry will be worse under labour as they some how find away to borrow more or sell more of everything to pay the lazy more.
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  1168. Because Europeans are lazy they don’t like to work they think everything should be given to them by the few tax payers that do work as government handouts. When the government don’t give enough of other peoples money they are nasty and riddled with corruption or they gave all the money to Russia or sponsored by Russia.
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  1169. All this is only going to go up with supply and demand and also benefits will need to be cut to pay for all them.
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  1170. really how the hell did the uk allow eu people to claim benefits, so glad the uk is out of the eu.
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  1171. @Reno_Pro_ it is for new eu people now eu people coming in now are treated the same as all people from overseas they have to pay visa charges and the nhs surchange just like the rest of us. old eu people can still claim really the uk should of stopped this. EU people pay little into the uk and took out benefits.
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  1172. With rates going down even more will be failed people are idiots if they think dropping rates will get them on the housing ladder. You need to build homes which takes years.
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  1173. Well it’s always got money for the lazy shame have the uk has never worked a day in their life.
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  1174. You are in the eu how can you you have open migration. The main issue In the uk is no Brit wants to work you need us migrants to pay for the social care and dole money all I hear is give us all more tax payers money the only way you get this money is from more tax you need more people working this comes from us migrants. Brits need to work get off benefits and work.
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  1175.  @openureyes  that’s funny all I keep hearing is how we are taking lazy Brits jobs
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  1176. Most people in the uk are not working and taking out more than they pay in that is the issue so those of us who are working are paying for it.
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  1177. That’s it the remainers only like white migration from the eu they are showing who the real xenophobes are.
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  1178. Got to love the lazy on here, crying as they might have to work. Don’t worry you won’t have to Labour will be in soon to tax us working people to pay for your lazy buggers.
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  1179. Should be lock up remainers you don’t understand democracy but why would you you loved the eu dictatorship for years.
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  1180. How’s Germany doing -0.2% growth Q4 how is the uk doing plus 0.1% growth q4 looks like Germany is heading for recession. Looks like being in the eu is really good hey.
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  1181.  @metalvideos1961  funny brexit seems to be affecting the eu a lot more then lol United Kingdom 0 -0.2 Italy -0.1 0.5 Turkey -0.1 1.9 Finland -0.2 -0.3 Czech Republic -0.3 -0.2 Croatia -0.4 1.5 Germany -0.4 0.5 Hungary -0.4 -0.7 Greece -0.5 0.6 Iceland -0.5 3.7 Sweden -0.6 0.6 Austria -0.7 0.2 Serbia -0.7 1.2 Lithuania -1.7 1.6 Estonia -1.8 -1.3 Poland -2.4 1 Moldova -8.4 -2.8
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  1182.  @metalvideos1961  and yet the eu is doing worse than the uk explain United Kingdom 0 -0.2 Italy -0.1 0.5 Turkey -0.1 1.9 Finland -0.2 -0.3 Czech Republic -0.3 -0.2 Croatia -0.4 1.5 Germany -0.4 0.5 Hungary -0.4 -0.7 Greece -0.5 0.6 Iceland -0.5 3.7 Sweden -0.6 0.6 Austria -0.7 0.2 Serbia -0.7 1.2 Lithuania -1.7 1.6 Estonia -1.8 -1.3 Poland -2.4 1 Moldova -8.4 -2.8
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  1183. Maybe you should get a job and work then you would not need migrants.
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  1184.  @rememberme3852  I am sure you work too the matey tories not paying you enough of my tax payer money I guess.
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  1185. I guess one thing remainers cannot blame on Brexit where their youth unemployment is at 30% lol
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  1186.  @mikecook1537  but then they need to except cuts
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  1187.  @mikecook1537  to me as an american living in the uk we pay about the same tax as they uk well slighly less but we dont have a nhs or as good social welfare system to me I would gladly cut back on some of the things I buy and pay more to the nhs I had a hip replacement recently and the care was fantasic to have a few pounds more in my pocket and the nhs going down more I would gladley expect a few pounds less in my pocket.
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  1188.  @mikecook1537  In california where I am from $100,000 tax is $29,959. net pay will be $70,041 per year, or $5,837 per month. Your average tax rate is 30.0% and your marginal tax rate is 42.6%.
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  1189.  @mikecook1537  tax in the uk on this will be 23,710.60 so around 30,000USD so again you will pay almost the same tax in the usa without a NHS and welfare system which you have to pay in on top of this. hence why people in the usa on 100k salaries are now living in their cars. one of the reasons I moved to the uk I take home far more here and save far more here than i did in the us
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  1190. Got to love the work shy voting for labour
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  1191. Because the left wants to bring in millions of people when there are no homes. Supply and demand it’s simple to much demand and no supply and even less now.
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  1192. Maybe sign off benefits and get a job plenty of them around.
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  1193. If the British hate this so much stop your Netflix subscriptions. But on no you wont just like you don’t boycott Amazon because you don’t care really. You just hate the gov.
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  1194. What makes me laugh is stupid Brits think this is only in the uk. Wake up. Your media and the left is trying to kill your country and yon are allowing them.
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  1195. I guess if you call a name that someone does not like it can be racist. You have to feel would you like a name called to you when you visits another country if the answer is no then it’s probably racist. Some may not mind some will just think if it would upset you then don’t say it.
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  1196. Quick let’s lock down the country again to protect the nhs.
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  1197. The uk is getting more migration now than ever 750k this year all paying 2k a pop and 640 for the nhs surcharge every 2.5 years the uk just now need lazy Brits to get off benefits and into work.
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  1198. funny everyone keeps telling me brexit was about racism yet there is more migration now the only diffrence is these people actually do pay in for visas and the nhs surchange and tax and ni unlike eu people and have no recourse to benefits unlike again eu people
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  1199.  @conorpmccarthy yep could hear it
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  1200.  @RoofLight00 maybe you should start paying tax then you might understand where the 209 billion went to for the lazy
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  1201. only thick remainers need Freedom of movement try getting a job and some skills and you will be able to move. The issue is most remainers are too thick to get visas.
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  1202.  @Toodyslexicforyou  I mean on credit cards that you are buying junk you don’t really need if you don’t have a morg your rent anyway
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  1203.  @Toodyslexicforyou  they only matter if you took out more than you could afford people need to understand rates go up as well as down. The bank at the time should of counted for your earnings when you took out the mortgage and check to see if you could afford double or triple the rates going up. The issue is most people live beyond their means.
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  1204. Supply and demand in the uk.
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  1205.  @grahamt5924  they won’t leave the uk provides to much free money. That is the main issue of you cannot afford your rent or you lose your job the uk gov will pay most of the rent. Eu people still get this and also still can get a lot of money to send to their families back home. Hence why no eu person left.
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  1206. Yet the uk out performing the eu at 0.6% eu only 0.3%
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  1207.  @kalebdaark100  world bank site and trading economics it’s called real data not data remainers make up
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  1208.  @kalebdaark100  you have not told me yours or your sources
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  1209.  @kalebdaark100  tell me where my figures are wrong I have given you my source you have given me nothing
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  1210.  @kalebdaark100  give me your source and figures to prove mine are wrong
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  1211.  @kalebdaark100  looks to me like the uk is doing better than most of the eu United Kingdom 0.6 Czech Republic 0.5 Finland 0.5 Romania 0.5 Bulgaria 0.4 Macedonia 0.4 Poland 0.4 Belgium 0.3 Euro Area 0.3 European Union 0.3 Italy 0.3 Malta 0.3 Switzerland 0.3 Austria 0.2 France 0.2 Germany 0.2 Greece 0.2 Norway 0.2 Luxembourg 0.02 Moldova 0 -1.3 % Slovenia 0 1.1 Netherlands -0.1 Sweden -0.1 Estonia -0.7 Denmark -1.8
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  1212.  @kalebdaark100  if I was you maybe do some research then you might be able to provide figures. But as I said like every thick remainer you cannot. Go away and cry over Brexit. Because you can no longer leave the uk as you have no skills or education to offer anyone.
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  1213.  @kalebdaark100  stop making figures up the eu only grew 3% in 2022 and the uk 4.2% world bank and trading economics figures. Please tell me where you really got these fictional eu figures from.i take it made up remainer thick figures. Remainers I really can see why your all stuck in the uk and cannot leave who would want you in their countries.
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  1214. Yet Labour were in when it started to fall
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  1215. Stagent wages were while the uk was in the eu wage growth now in the uk is 6% uk inflation is less than the eu now at 2.3% labour cannot borrow if they do it will be the same as when truss came in. So they will need to put up taxes. Build homes won’t fix it and putting down rates will force prices up with 1.2 million coming in each year you need to build 1 home every second. I’m a migrant in the uk and even I can see that the only real way to put down house prices is to put up rates this will bankrupt the people who borrowed beyond their means. Bad yep and people will go into negative equity giving up their homes. So really no matter that you do to force prices down people are going to get hurt. Best thing to do really is to get companies to increase wages to cope with higher costs. Stop things like In work benefits. As this helps companies pay less wages as why pay more when the government will top up salaries.
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  1216. The uk was in the eu in 2009
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  1217. The issue is the eu people did not pay 2k for visa and 640 for the nhs surcharge they also were on minimum wage and had recourse to benefits unlike us on visas who need to get pr to get benefits so the uk would much rather have us.
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  1218. What does that say about our forces in the USA then when I was just reading, the British marines kicked the US butts.
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  1219. like labour are going to tax themselves they are the rich they will just tax the working to pay for the not working until its pointless working
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  1220. no greece is still below its 2007 levels for gdp, for a country in the eu the eu seems to be doing nothing for them
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  1221. The pound has crashed the last few days since Labour said they will attack pensions
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  1222. because its not a failure its only a failure if you are a thick remainer who has no skills anyone wants, hence why you cannot leave the uk as you lost your fom.
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  1223.  @richardgallagher4880  just like the remainer who cannot admit exports have gone up
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  1224. It does but they are fixed for 2, 5 or 10 years
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  1225.  @unholyiiamas  I think it’s more about the bank making money here I have only had my house here 5 years, so only renewed once I got a 2 year fixed first and 2nd was 5years here they charge 1000 pounds every time you renew. My house in the USA I had 30 years. I think they are looking at it here.
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  1226. Uk cannot go bankrupt it can keep printing all that happens is more inflation.
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  1227. I thought everything was caused by brexit lol
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  1228. What does one expect when her mentor is a nazi. Who doesn’t like Jewish people.
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  1229. Can’t see it still 1.2 million people coming into the uk each year and little to no homes being built. Supply and demand maybe up north the price will come down as no one wants to live up there. However in the south there are such a shortage of homes.
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  1230. Is the fat morons costing the nhs really time to stop treating them.
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  1231. nothing to do with politicians everyone shops online these days
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  1232. Maybe if Brits actually worked and stopped complaining that the nasty tories don’t pay them enough tax payers money. You would not need so many migrants. Brits are their own worst enemy to lazy to work but want a decent nhs and benefits. You need migrants to pay for this if you won’t.
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  1233.  @ilikelampshades6  why don’t you ask your boss for a rise then I take it you ask the government not your boss my wages are high as I ask my company for a rise but then I’m on a visa. All the Brits I know seem to ask the tories for a rise i never understood that mentality.
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  1234.  @ilikelampshades6  I understand Labour will be in soon let’s see if they pay you more
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  1235.  @ilikelampshades6  you could always sell and buy in a cheaper area. As I said before you really don’t want this property to go down as you will be worse off if you go into negative equity you will still owe the morg and won’t be able to sell making you more of a slave to the banks. To me really if your in this much debt and are at the top of what you could borrow you probably should not of got in. When I bought I made sure I could over pay and pay it off quicker. I made sure I could afford the rates going up as well as down.
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  1236.  @ilikelampshades6  really 1.5 million who work in the nhs are all going to leave are they. Where are they all going to move to to me as a Japanese American the grass is not greener on the other side. But I wish you luck in leaving. I love the uk at the monent. But it’s not my home so will probably also leave one day. But leaving because you cannot get a pay rise is not the best reason to leave the tories will be out soon and Labour in do I’m sure your get what you want.
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  1237.  @ilikelampshades6  to me then if you can over pay even if it’s only 100 pound I would it will get the morg down quicker and give you a better ltv when you go to remortgage getting your rate down also
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  1238. Issue is the eu people mostly on minimum wage paying in no visa costs and nhs surcharge and has recourse to benefits so I can see why the Brits did not want eu people we pay in for visas the nhs surcharge plus pay in tax and ni so pay far more in than eu people did.
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  1239.  @countfosco8535  I doubt that I take it your on benefits or minimum wage and never paid a penny in like most other Brits
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  1240.  @countfosco8535 it’s the issue with Brits you pay in nothing and just cry the nasty tories are not giving you enough free money . If you are on uc which expect you are you take our far more than you pay in.
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  1241.  @eugenieponleve667  most eu citizens were on minimum wage and in work benefits so paid nothing in. I am glad now they cannot come. Unless they pay for visas and the nhs surcharge. Isn’t funny now they cannot get benefits and have to pay for visas they won’t come. There are the people the uk do not need.
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  1242.  @eugenieponleve667  all the eu people around where I live all renting and all on benefits. Getting their rent paid by housing benefits really cannot understand how the uk is paying foreigners rent.
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  1243.  @eugenieponleve667  they are Portuguese all came before Brexit. It’s a shame the uk did not stop them getting benefits. Glad now no more can come to the uk. Really the only people who should be able to move country should be skilled people who contribute.
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  1244. Damn Brexit seems to be flooding Italy with migrants
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  1245. Because it’s cheaper for the uk to protect Ireland with the raf.
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  1246. The uk is actually not as bad as people make out. I would suggest people live overseas for a while to see that. There are many decent jobs In the uk that pay well. Esp in fintech, it, banking stop doing Mickey Mouse degrees and expect to get a decent salary.
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  1247. Because of the left wing in the civil service and people are going to vote in labour. Lol
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  1248. Got to love you people you hate it when other countries get into British politics yet your doing the same in the USA. Stay out of it hypocrites
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  1249.  @-_YouMayFind_-  yep it looks like it got to love these unemployment rates it Europe Country Last Previous Kosovo 20.7 25.9 Montenegro 17.37 17.85 Macedonia 13.4 14 Bosnia and Herzegovina 13.3 14.3 Spain 11.6 13.26 Greece 11.1 11.3 Albania 10.9 10.8 Ukraine 10.5 9.1 Serbia 10.1 9.2 Turkey 9.5 10 Sweden 9.2 7.9 Lithuania 8.1 8.3 Italy 7.4 7.5 Finland 7.2 9 Portugal 7.2 6.5 France 7.1 7.1 Latvia 6.4 6.7 Euro Area 6.4 6.4 European Union 5.9 5.9 Austria 5.9 5.7 Belgium 5.7 5.7 Germany 5.6 5.7 Croatia 5.6 5.6 Moldova 5.5 4.6 Romania 5.4 5.5 Estonia 5.3 5.4 Luxembourg 5.2 5 Slovakia 5.12 5.1 Bulgaria 5 5.1 Poland 5 5.1 Slovenia 4.8 5 Cyprus 4.8 4.8 Ireland 4.1 4.2 United Kingdom 4 3.8 Hungary 3.9 3.9 Belarus 3.6 3.9 Netherlands 3.5 3.5 Czech Republic 3.5 3.4 Norway 3.4 3.1 Iceland 3.4 2.1 Russia 3.1 3.2 Malta 2.9 2.9 Denmark 2.4 2.4 Switzerland 1.9 1.9 Liechtenstein 1.3 1.6 Faroe Islands 0.7 0.8
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  1250.  @esmeecampbell7396  you do know you only start paying when you get a job. If you never get a job that pays enough you never pay it off. This is the issue with thick Brits I have found you all think you pay up front. This is why you are all on benefits the Brits I have met who have gone to university are in top paying jobs all paid off their loans. But they have done degrees in areas that pay well. Most Brits think they can do a Mickey Mouse degree and get a decent job. It does not work that way. It’s why I relise since I have been in the uk that very few to no Brits work in high paying jobs in the uk. I was astonished when I moved here 6 years ago that no one Brit in my team in the uk.
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  1251. Why are people so silly and so greedy when did people come so reliant on credit and debt. I was always taught if you cannot afford something don’t buy it.
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  1252. Haha according to a thick remainer who does not understand economics
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  1253. Low interest rates is just stupid it’s why the west is in a mess. Low rates work in Japan and Asia as people live within their means, in the west people borrow to pay for crap they cannot afford. You cannot keep growing by debt. Also when you print money to pay for things you cannot afford you get inflation. People need to start to take accountability for their own actions stop blaming the government all the time. You choose that crappy degree when there are massive skills shortage. So you chose the wrong degree. You chose to spend on that big screen tv and lv wallet you did not need on credit. Think rates can go up as well as down. If you cannot get a decent job take a look at yourself. I cannot write well, my grammar is poor yet I still have a 6 figure salary why is that because I got a job with skill shortages. I look at what will be needed in the future I don’t rely on the government to make jobs. Companies make jobs if you cannot fill them a person from overseas will.
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  1254. yet they pay in for visas and the nhs surcharge unlike eu people so I think they will earn far more than the eu people who forced the race to the bottom
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  1255.  @ninaedwards345  damn that Brexit hitting the USA now too
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  1256.  @ZuberiGaming migrants now pay for the nhs surcharge and visa costs they have to pay for your benefits you lazy Brits won’t work
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  1257.  @jamesvo8514  Brits don’t pay much in complain about the nasty government and us foreigners taking their jobs that they don’t want to do as they get more in benefits from us foreigners paying in taxes and visas and the nhs surcharge if it was not for us they would get no benefits
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  1258. @@JOP-sw3lj that was in the old days of the EU no migrant now can afford to do low kill jobs, when you are paying 1500 pounds for visas and 640 for the nhs surcharge you cannot do a minimum wage job. Trust me. All migrants now have to be skilled and on work visas earning over 30k. In the days of the eu yes they were all filled by migrants from the eu as they could get benefits to top up their salaries people on visas have no recourse to benefits so again would not be able ot do a low skilled job in the uk anymore.
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  1259. @@JOP-sw3lj students can only work 12hrs are not allowed to get benefits so really no point working again I know as I went to soas before I left the uk and came back. You are probably thinking of the few legal workers mainly bralizian and Uber eats drivers although most of them came in on eu visas workers wages are now rising as the uk is out of the eu and migrants cannot do minimum wage jobs. The issue is many Brits get more on benefits so no point in working
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  1260.  @billiam794  well the tories tried to drop the tax to 19% and everyone said it would only help the rich lol.
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  1261.  @AK-np4rp  you can claim Bens up to 50k now
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  1262. Live within your means it’s simple, the problem is we have been used to cheap crap from china and binge tv, in the 80s we did not have any of this we earned less and had rates of 18%. We lived within our means. Stop what you cannot afford. Just because you think you should have it then blame the government for not topping you up to pay for all this materialists crap.
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  1263. One thing the uk has that Italy does not have is migration. Italy is in the eu has fom yet no one wants to move there.
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  1264.  @tancreddehauteville764  this is why fom is not a great idea it just does not work as must European counties are going through this now hence why youth unemployment is going up in the eu
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  1265. at least real Irish people commenting here as on other posts all I keep hearing how rich everyone is in Ireland.
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  1266.  @markshirley01  the reason people care about migration now is because it affects white eu people funny how remainers did not stick up for Brown people before brexit.
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  1267.  @markshirley01  so the uk could stop freedom of movement then? Funny that one of the things the uk wanted to do was to make sure all eu people were treated the same as none eu people. Ie that they paid in and we’re not entitled to any bens for 5 years and the eu said no. If the uk controlled everything why could they not make this happen.
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  1268.  @markwelch3564  that is totally untrue, go look it up i am an American and I can see that is not true. How can a person from the eu live in minimum wage with no top ups.
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  1269.  @markwelch3564  and yet the eu said no to the uk, why do you choose not to read what I posted it’s from your bbc.
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  1270.  @markwelch3564  when you treat your own people worse than another person from the eu then you will get issues, I remember a Brit mate tell me in hk I have eu on my passport but when I move home my Japanese wife will need, English tests a visa, pay for the nhs surcharge, where as my French mate will move with his Nigerian wife and they won’t need any visas. No nhs surcharge and have recourse to bens. That is wrong they you treated one eu person different to another. If you don’t see that then there is something wrong. In the USA we will not allow a us citizen to be treated worse than the French, Germany, British. Person. Why do you vote to make yourselfs 2nd class citizens in your own country.
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  1271.  @markwelch3564  On in-work benefits: The Council would authorise that Member State to limit the access of newly arriving EU workers to non-contributory in-work benefits for a total period of up to four years from the commencement of employment. The limitation should be graduated, from an initial complete exclusion but gradually increasing access to such benefits to take account of the growing connection of the worker with the labour market of the host Member State. The authorisation would have a limited duration and apply to EU workers newly arriving during a period of 7 years.
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  1272.  @markwelch3564  On child benefit: A proposal to amend Regulation (EC) No 883/2004 of the European Parliament and of the Council on the coordination of social security systems in order to give Member States, with regard to the exportation of child benefits to a Member State other than that where the worker resides, an option to index such benefits to the conditions of the Member State where the child resides. This should apply only to new claims made by EU workers in the host Member State. However, as from 1 January 2020, all Member States may extend indexation to existing claims to child benefits already exported by EU workers. The Commission does not intend to propose that the future system of optional indexation of child benefits be extended to other types of exportable benefits, such as old-age pensions;
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  1273.  @markwelch3564  funny how the eu said no to treating eu citizens the same as everyone else hey.
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  1274.  @welshgit  What the draft deal said:"[New legislation will] provide for an alert and safeguard mechanism that responds to situations of inflows of workers from other member states of an exceptional magnitude over an extended period of time… the implementing act would authorise the member state to limit the access of union workers newly entering its labour market to in-work benefits for a total of up to four years from the commencement of employment."
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  1275.  @welshgit  What the final deal said: On in-work benefits: The Council would authorise that Member State to limit the access of newly arriving EU workers to non-contributory in-work benefits for a total period of up to four years from the commencement of employment. The limitation should be graduated, from an initial complete exclusion but gradually increasing access to such benefits to take account of the growing connection of the worker with the labour market of the host Member State. The authorisation would have a limited duration and apply to EU workers newly arriving during a period of 7 years.
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  1276.  @welshgit  On child benefit: A proposal to amend Regulation (EC) No 883/2004 of the European Parliament and of the Council on the coordination of social security systems in order to give Member States, with regard to the exportation of child benefits to a Member State other than that where the worker resides, an option to index such benefits to the conditions of the Member State where the child resides. This should apply only to new claims made by EU workers in the host Member State. However, as from 1 January 2020, all Member States may extend indexation to existing claims to child benefits already exported by EU workers. The Commission does not intend to propose that the future system of optional indexation of child benefits be extended to other types of exportable benefits, such as old-age pensions;
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  1277.  @welshgit  maybe try reading this from the bbc not the guardian, I’m American and I can see the eu took you for a ride on the promise you uneducated Brits will get to retire in Spain. You do know to work in most eu countries you need to know the lingo that puts most of you Brits out of work there and they won’t allow you to claim bens. So you lost the fom that most of you cannot use anyway. What to treat eu people better than your own people. Really who would vote for that.
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  1278.  @welshgit  you might actually want to go and read the bbc you were not independent in the control of immigration hence why the eu said no to all of what Cameron asked for. You could not treat eu citizens the same as non eu citizens.
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  1279.  @welshgit  so let me get this straight the uk is now the same as the other 180 countries in the world for immigration that are not in the eu. Yet the only country in the world for wanting to be like 180 countries is now jingoistic. Can I ask why the other 180 countries in the world are not? Can I also ask why you think 26 white eu countries should be treated better than the other 180 countries in the world. Can I also ask why you think it’s right to treat British citizens worse than eu citizens coming back to their own country. All because you want the fom that you will never use.
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  1280.  @YouTubemessedupmyhandle  which was stupid in the first place and finally even the eu has relised that its only remoaners they think it’s a good idea.
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  1281. Not if the uk is going to relax migration, lack of homes equals higher price.
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  1282. No thanks
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  1283. No it has not stop talking nonsense Paris is not even in the top 10 London is still no2
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  1284.  @zie233  I have had to face hardship, I grew up in the 70s and 80s I know what it’s like to have nothing. I know what it’s looks to share clothes to have your dad padlock the larder. That’s the issue so many people today don’t really know hardship. We did not have food banks when I was a kid. If you had no food you had no food.
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  1285. I have gone to a few eu countries since living in the uk and most of the eu is like the 3rd world. I love uk remainers claiming that the uk would be better off in the eu the truth is these Brits could not work in the eu anyway as they are too thick to get visas now what chance have they got with the unemployement rates in most eu countries. The uk was taking these unemployment lines now it’s out there is no where to send them. The uk is far better off out.
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  1286. Scrap them all now the uk is a sovereign country
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  1287. If labour did not use rack when it built these schools in the first place the tories would not have to deal with it typical labour always cutting corners.
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  1288.  @run2cat4run  that’s funny the uk economy grew 0.1% while Germany fell 0.4% and the whole of the eu by -0.1% really you need to check the figures
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  1289. @ approximately 929,000 job vacancies as of Jan 2025, this is on LinkedIn, jobs, financial has 50,000 high paying jobs open.
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  1290. @ I said a million jobs. And yes there is
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  1291. @ I take it you are one of the lazy in the uk and won’t work it’s why the uk needs to take in 1 million people each year because Brits just won’t work these days. 4 million people in the uk of working age have never worked. That is just sheer laziness.
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  1292. @ which jobs pay 1 pound an hr I can see your a free loader
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  1293. @ this is why benefits should be cut for the lazy
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  1294. I have lived in both, although you earn more in nyc, I found I save a lot more living in London as I don’t need to pay for health care. Rent is far more in nyc, also you have to go out of the city a bit for cheaper groceries. Going out to bars and clubs is the same in both for cost not much in it. London people tend to go out in their local area of London so no need to go to central where as people tend to go out more in there city in nyc.
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  1295. Eu biggest winner with 10% inflation and minus wage growth lol
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  1296. People need to start asking their companies for pay rises or at least look for other jobs that pay more plenty on LinkedIn. I ask my company for a rise each year.
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  1297.  @simonwood1402  funny the tories have been in 13 years and I am not hungry and cold you know why I work for a living maybe you should try it rather than keep asking for more hard working tax payers money.
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  1298. No they are labour labour voters keep lying to themselves that the tories voted them in. Labour voters always blame everything on the tories. But they voted them in.
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  1299. Only British people should be allowed to vote British people cannot vote in the eu so why should eu people be able to vote in the uk. British people cannot vote in Japan so why should I be able to vote in the uk. This is silly if you want to be able to vote you should become British.
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  1300.  @cliveswabs9365  no only the left do but blaim the tories for backing russia
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  1301. The funny thing is the more people you bring in the more inequality you will have. The reason is there is only a small amount of people actually paying tax, not matter if labour or the tories are in you won’t tax the big companies stupid amounts of money. So you will have to put up the tax on the 1% earning 100k or more. Anyone on under 50k gets money back In benefits like child tax credits, child bens, housing bens and so on which decreases the amount they pay in tax. So the more people claiming asylum or coming here on minimum wage jobs takes away from the people who really needs bens the disabled or the people who cannot work through no fault of their own.
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  1302.  @Adilrajasoldierspeaks9702  if you want to get rid of inequality surely you want the bankers to earn more so they pay more tax. You do relise that the benefits in the uk are paid for by the tax people pay the more one earns the more they pay in tax.
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  1303.  @fuckoffgoogle9747  you won’t get enough taxing big companies as you can only tax them on what they earn in the uk, unless you change to the USA tax system that allows you to tax globally. The issue here is I’m sure Brits won’t want to pay tax on their overseas income like our Americans have to do.
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  1304. I thought the eu was a utopia and anyone in it does well. lol
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  1305. Cannot see it the uk will never rejoin the eu and the eu won’t want the uk to rejoin only think remainers want this because they are too thick to leave the uk on visas.
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  1306.  @MichaelJ44  because the uk keeps being told they need them. When the uk does not it can control it in the eu it could not. Some people say due to aging population you need migration. Some say the country is full up. In the eu the uk could not control migration. Now also immigrants get no recourse to benefits and need to pay in for the nhs. Before eu migrants got access to the nhs totally free. The nhs also did not claim back much from the eu counties even though there are more eu migrants from each country in the uk than Brits in eu counties bar Spain for example Poland has 1 million people on the uk yet the uk only got back 1.2 million for all the polish in the uk using the nhs. There are a few 1000 Brits in Poland yet Poland claimed more than that from the nhs. So the fair way of paying for the nhs is through the nhs surcharge and now all eu people coming in need to pay that the same as non eu people.
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  1307. Wow 37 billion that’s nothing compared to the 1.2 trillion labour gave to the bankers to spend on their bonuses.
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  1308. Try buying then you might understand what a mortgage costs then you have the chav who moves in says they will pay and do not then you have the court costs to remove the chav who does it as they only want a council home so these fees get passed to the next person.
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  1309.  @jeansherwood2428  really when so many people dont pay their rent and it costs 1000s to evict them
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  1310. Yet 500k people still moving here can’t be too bad.
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  1311. Isn’t it funny you stay this yet 500k foreigners came in the year. Really it’s time for you lazy Brits to work.
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  1312.  @bodhisattva2348  in America people come on visa which they pay for they cannot come for free unless your illegal. Not sure eu people from poor nationals want to be illegal’s in the uk. America also don’t pay people more than someone who works for working 16 hrs. That is the main issue here when you can earn more than someone working by being paid benefits.
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  1313.  @vitalyl1327  gamons lol we are here because the lazy brits dont work
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  1314.  @Lucien234-i2z  issue in the uk now is the benefits are too good no one wants to train as a nurse in the uk anymore
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  1315.  @Moleskineman  all the brit these days cares about if they are going to get more money from the state they will soon care when we all leave and there is no money for their benefits and they have to actually get off their butts and work.
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  1316.  @jpazinho  the uk has to dumb it down to get you Brits off the dole or 16hr contacts it’s the issue you blame the tories blame your thick fellow countrymen who would rather be on benefits than work.
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  1317. So it’s a world issue I am told by remainers in the uk that this is only happening there and it’s all brexit.
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  1318. England is trying its the woke that keeps stopping them
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  1319.  @Greg-q2r  you can’t be a patriotic in the uk if you do your a racist I’m Japanese and I really dont understand the English they seem to hate their own people.
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  1320. Time for Gary to house him
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  1321. Na brexit was great it’s so great seeing the remainers say how Brexit is a disaster yet are still in the uk and when you say with did you not leave they say because brexiteers stole their fom. Really why telling me how smart they are. If they were so smart they would be able to leave on visas so they cannot be that smart. So they are here crying daily. Brexit just to seem them cry daily makes me wish I could vote in the uk as I would vote Brexit just to keep them on this little island lol it’s amazing how a group of people on benefits can write off their own country for fom. lol
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  1322. Why would they the eu sets the migration quota of Ireland. Cannot stop it.
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  1323. All you have to do is sell in the eu for 2000 each for battery lol
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  1324. Funny I keep being told my remainers that the eu is not suffering with workers due to fom. Maybe you should talk to them as it seems fom is not working.
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  1325.  @GonzoTehGreat the pay is great in the uk I’m a migrant been living here 8 years I moved from Singapore but I’m from the USA. I earn 6 figures save a lot of money in the uk. Really all I hear is the pay is not good in the uk by uneducated Brits. You all seem to only want to work 16hrs you do understand that you need to earn above minimum wage to get a visa for the uk and get no recourse to benefits. The issue I see with Brits is you ask the nasty tories aka the tax payer for money not your boss. Us foreigners can pay 2k for visas 640 for the nhs surcharge plus tax and ni get no recourse to benefits and we are ok. Why don’t you actually ask your bosses for rises like we do not the tax payers.
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  1326. He only called security as they were not real
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  1327. Well when 2 tier said the uk will be top in ai with no ai companies really can’t believe people people voted for them but you know it’s only the work shy that vote Labour.
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  1328. I thought it was the uk who was the sick man of Europe lol
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  1329. They voted Labour.
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  1330.  @angeleyessvenska9330  he says in English and French lol
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  1331.  @edwardbernthal160  people in the uk work 16 hours so they can get their benefits and that there benefits are not capped. Why are you Brits so lazy you complain about people like me being here taking your jobs. But you are nothing but lazy.
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  1332.  @edwardbernthal160  get to work get a job like the rest of us and get off bens so these can go to the real people who need them like the disabled. People who lose their jobs through no fault of their own. Who need the money while looking for another job. Maybe then the rest can go to things like the nhs rather than you lazy people who want to get around the benefits cap.
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  1333.  @edwardbernthal160  at least I work. Maybe rather than go on about someone’s spelling get a job and stop complaining about the cost of living when you are living off people tax money. But you won’t because you Brits are lazy.
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  1334.  @edwardbernthal160  that’s the thing with you Brits go out about spelling too much while being to think to even get jobs. Now there are 10 million people from overseas here doing your jobs. Why is that if you are all so smart and can spell. Who wait because you would rather sit on your ass on bens while complaining people who cannot spell are taking your jobs.
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  1335.  @edwardbernthal160  if it’s not factual why are so many of you are on benefits complaining that you cannot afford to heat and eat. Because the gov gives you too little. If it’s not factual why are you all not asking your bosses for more money, you are asking the government. I work in the uk you know what when I need a pay rise I ask my company for one. Why can’t you Brits?
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  1336.  @edwardbernthal160  check the dwp 22 million of you lazy Brits are on benefits there are only 60 million people 30 million are children so you need us overseas citizens here to pay your benefits. If it was not for us your country would of been bankrupt along time ago. Get off your lazy asses and work. Stop calling for eu people to do the jobs for you. It’s time to work. Although why work when the government does not top you up enough you call them nasty tories.
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  1337.  @JohnKobaRuddy  i agree Brits call everyone else thick and stupid yet they voted these people in. Then complain about it.
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  1338. They know labour will be in in two years to bail us all out with more money maybe they will sell the rest of the gold then I can get a nice big fat bonus again that allows me to buy my homes In the uk and Hong Kong. Thank you Labour.
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  1339.  @tetchuma the democrats too not seen much change in the USA that is why I left for the uk. In fact it got worse I saw friends in Cali where I’m from living in their cars as they could not afford to live on their homes anymore.
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  1340. @ you could of voted for another party you choose either labour or the tories
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  1341. @ got to love the work shy
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  1342. Because Brits are lazy
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  1343. The issue here is you are better off working 2 days a week and being on benefits, really it’s time to scrap this why are you better off on benefits than working. Surely it’s time to get the 2 million Brits working that are doing this.
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  1344. Good let’s hope they do labour will be in soon so will sell the rest Of the gold to give to us.
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  1345. Got to love how remainers say they have the most voters yet rejoin eu get no votes and the snp look to be wiped out. lol
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  1346. Isn’t it funny that it’s the smart remainers suffering by this why is that if your so smart. Seems you cannot even live within your means. Lol poor old remainers cannot afford to save. Lol
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  1347. Really if someone dies they need to be locked up for life for murder.
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  1348. If you are a remainer. Seems they have a problem with Asian migration, they have a problem with voting.
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  1349. It sure is
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  1350. Poor little remainer lost his fom now his crying. Get over it
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  1351. As an American in the uk I see great benefits of Brexit. Eu citizens living in the uk now have no recourse to benefits and now have to pay for the nhs surcharge and for visas. The same as we do. Really only people who are skilled should move countries wages have gone up since Brexit. Eu people brought down the wages now you need to earn more than minimum wage to come in and get no recourse to benefits.
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  1352. Yet the uk grew 0.6% and the eu only 0.3% seems the uk doing better than the eu
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  1353. Labour and people want another Labour gov.
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  1354. Can see all the people on benefits never worked a day in their lives living off our hard earned tax money saying the gov is lying the gov does not set the inflation rate. Morons get a job work and you might not be poor. This is the inflation rate according to trading economics seems many eu counties have far higher inflation than the uk. Serbia 8 8.5 % Hungary 7.9 9.9 % Iceland 7.7 8 % Russia 7.5 6.7 % Czech Republic 7.3 8.5 % Romania 6.72 8.07 % Poland 6.6 6.6 % Slovakia 6.26 7.07 % Sweden 5.8 6.5 % Moldova 5.5 6.3 % Belarus 5.4 3.53 % Bulgaria 5.4 5.8 % Austria 5.3 5.4 % Ukraine 5.1 5.3 % Slovenia 4.9 6.9 % Montenegro 4.8 6.1 % Norway 4.8 4 % Croatia 4.7 5.8 % Estonia 4 4.9 % Albania 3.9 3.8 % Ireland 3.9 5.1 % Malta 3.9 4.2 % United Kingdom 3.9 4.6 % Faroe Islands 3.7 4.4 % European Union 3.6 4.9 % France 3.5 4 % Finland 3.3 4.9 % Germany 3.2 3.8 % Spain 3.2 3.5 % Macedonia 3.1 3.5 % Greece 3 3.4 % Luxembourg 3 3.16 % Kosovo 2.9 3.3 % Euro Area 2.4 2.9 % Bosnia and Herzegovina 2.13 4.09 % Lithuania 2 2.8 % Cyprus 1.71 3.47 % Netherlands 1.6 -0.4 % Portugal 1.54 2.12 % Liechtenstein 1.4 1.7 % Switzerland 1.4 1.7 % Latvia 1 2.1 % Belgium 0.76 0.36 % Italy 0.67 1.69 % Denmark 0.6 0.1 %
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  1355. Because the Japanese do not pander to the woke, really just because you are a minority does not mean you should be treated better than the locals. Japan has this right the uk and USA has it all wrong.
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  1356. @ don’t worry as a landlord you won’t be able to just increase the rent anymore as the tenants can reject it, you won’t be able to issue section 21 anymore you will have to increase your epc rating. If a tenant does not pay their rents you won’t be able to evict them. Let’s see if landlords sell up.
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  1357. @ I don’t feel it’s a good thing I think it’s stupid but can’t wait to see the people who do lol like the guy above lol
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  1358. If that is true why does every English speaking country in the world use British law. Not eu law.
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  1359.  @mark-nm4tc  many US laws came from the uk, please do your research on English common law.
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  1360.  @mark-nm4tc  At both the federal and state levels, with the exception of the legal system of Louisiana, the law of the United States is largely derived from the common law system of English law
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  1361.  @mark-nm4tc  funny the uk is so xenophobic that it allowed 1.2 million to migrate here last year 500k more arrived the left. The only xenophobic people I have met in my time in the uk is remainers. Why do you hate anyone out side of the eu, why do you think people like me should be treated differently?
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  1362.  @mark-nm4tc  why do you hate anyone born outside of the eu?
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  1363.  @mark-nm4tc  the USA where I’m from we treat all people from overseas the same you get the same visa and pay the same cost. Why do you think one foreigner should be treated differently from another and you call brexiteers racist and xenophobic people like you want people treated differently why is that?
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  1364.  @mark-nm4tc  the USA sure does make it down laws like the uk is capable of doing too but many of the original laws come from the uk. We have changed many over the years but does not change the fact that the fundamental laws came from English common law.
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  1365.  @mark-nm4tc  how answer the question why you think one foreigner should be treated better than another and yet you are not xenophobic.
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  1366.  @eggandscorpion  so it was childish all the countries of the old uk empire leaving their biggest partner was it. Some times you need to go your own way.
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  1367.  @eggandscorpion  anyway none of you have told me why you hate anyone outside of the eu.
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  1368.  @eggandscorpion  is it because they are not white and European?
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  1369.  @eggandscorpion  yet you think eu people should be treated better than people from outside of the eu don’t you. Why is that?
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  1370.  @eggandscorpion  why do you think one set of people should be treated differently to others?
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  1371.  @eggandscorpion  how you think one set of people are better than another, why don’t you want the 1.2 million people here on visas yet you want the 7 million on no visas. Why do you think one set should pay a visa charge and the nhs surcharge but the others you think should be here Scot free. Why do you think one set should learn English and the other set you don’t feel needs too.
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  1372.  @eggandscorpion  when you treat everyone the same you say it’s xenophobic and racist why is that but it was ok to treat one set of people differently before brexit why is that.
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  1373.  @eggandscorpion  you are a remainer arnt you?
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  1374.  @eggandscorpion  who calls anyone who voted brexit a xenophobic racist yet when you vote to remain it means you hate anyone who is not from the eu. It means you feel you are above them and should be treated better.
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  1375.  @eggandscorpion  again why do you think an eu person should be treated better than a non eu person?
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  1376.  @eggandscorpion  yet again you wanted to remain in the eu, so again you want to treat one set of people from overseas differently to another so that makes you a xenophobic racist.
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  1377. @ to me I would rather have the boat people than eu people
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  1378. You are the reason why the human race needs to die out and why we really should not care about global warming. Let’s just chop all the trees down.
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  1379.  @MrDesmondPot  people like you have never worked a day in your life all you do is cry daily that people like me are not working enough to pay your benefits.
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  1380.  @sarahjf69  paying tax for services I get pay tax to top peoples salaries up I don’t get. Why don’t you ask your boss for a pay rise or get a better job rather than taking money away from the disabled and the nhs.
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  1381. the best benefits of brexit is keeping unskilled low paid workers out of the uk. the only people who should be able to move country are skilled people.
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  1382.  @charleswillcock3235  issue is most eu workers worked in hospitality on minimum wage not as plumbers.
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  1383. More like the eu have you seen the debts of Greece and Belgium and France
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  1384. Funny I was watching a programme set in Grimsby in 2013 looks like the eu killed off the fishing industry there.
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  1385. And put in a sir toff lol
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  1386.  @kaywhy245  I can’t vote in the uk but it seems they will get in
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  1387.  @rv1251  yet I’m in the uk on a visa and remainers and eu people cannot leave on visas. Really shows how smart eu and remainers are hey. 😂
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  1388.  @Jen-nm6og  can you tell me where I said it was
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  1389. benefits should only be for the disabled and people looking for work its far to easy now to get benefits so why work.
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  1390.  @AD-mh4zy  issue is far to many have not done a days work in their life.
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  1391. Cut benefits and cut foreign aid it’s simple. Only people who should get benefits are the disabled and people looking for work.
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  1392. Looks to me like brexit is hitting the eu far more than the uk lol why are people not talking about that. Maybe the eu need to take a look at their own countries first. United Kingdom 0 -0.2 Italy -0.1 0.5 Turkey -0.1 1.9 Finland -0.2 -0.3 Czech Republic -0.3 -0.2 Croatia -0.4 1.5 Germany -0.4 0.5 Hungary -0.4 -0.7 Greece -0.5 0.6 Iceland -0.5 3.7 Sweden -0.6 0.6 Austria -0.7 0.2 Serbia -0.7 1.2 Lithuania -1.7 1.6 Estonia -1.8 -1.3 Poland -2.4 1 Moldova -8.4 -2.8
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  1393. What finances everyone is on state handouts.
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  1394. Because you opened to 7 million eu people and built no homes.
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  1395. can you provide a source for this made up rubbish
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  1396.  @Just_another_Euro_dude  checking out trading economics the uk is still ahead of France most of the eu is in recession. What are you talking about what drugs are you on. Now please show me a a source for these trillions.
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  1397.  @Just_another_Euro_dude  google what some remainer rubbish site not according to trading econ uk grew by 0.8 billion since Brexit France only 0.7 billion it would seem that the uk is doing better than France now hey.
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  1398.  @Just_another_Euro_dude  most eu countries have not grown their gdp since 2007 Italy and Greece lol how is the eu working out for them .
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  1399. its not greed and corruption everyone shops online these days
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  1400.  @freedomwatch3991  I agree they are but it’s the only way your get the services without paying a fortune for them. Most people in the uk pay little to no tax. Ie people on minimum wage. But get the same services as the people who do pay in. If they were in the USA or some other countries most of the people would get no benefits or access to health care. You can complain in the uk but atleast if you get sick or break your hip your get a op or treated the same day and your come out with no bill in the USA you would be bankrupt
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  1401.  @teelo523  the government don’t spend the money they give it to the departments and they spend the money
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  1402.  @teelo523  ie 20% of your taxes goes to health ie the nhs and they spend your money 30% to the department of work and pensions and they spend the money on benefits and pensions you can check the ons or your government gateway app to see where the rest goes.
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  1403.  @EliF-ge5bu  the issue is it is true I live in the uk and think the healthcare here is just as good as the USA. Since I have been here I have had a hip replacement I went to hospital the next day I had my op 10 days later I left hospital and have 5 months of physio. Got my home kitted out with everything I need free from the nhs the other day my son had a mole we took him to the gp a week later he had an appoint at the hospital to check it out it’s not cancer but needs to be removed it will be removed next week. This would never happen in the USA and if it did it would cost me 50k for my hip replacement and around 10k to have the mole removed all free with my uk taxes. Norway pay a bit more but you also have to relise their population is about the same as London. You really cannot compare. They also have far less migration than the uk. The uk needs to spend money differently. I’m not saying they do the best job but it’s not as bad as all Brits suggest.
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  1404.  @EliF-ge5bu  even with insurance you have to pay. In the uk you pay nothing. I don’t have to update anything I’m from the USA and have paid a lot of money in the past for healthcare one of the reasons I left the USA.
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  1405.  @EliF-ge5bu  and again I would rather pay higher taxes for what I get in the uk. In California where I’m from trust me the taxes are not that much lower and then when I add in my health care it’s almost the same as what I pay in the uk. What I have got in medical for me and my son I have pretty much got my taxes back for the last 8 years I’ve been in the uk.
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  1406.  @EliF-ge5bu  at my level I would pay 37.1 I real taxation in California then I would have to pay for my health care and my 401k on top of that in the uk I pay about 40% tax and don’t have to pay anything on top of that. Salary $120,000 Federal Income Tax - $19,528 State Income Tax - $8,487 Social Security - $7,440 Medicare - $1,740 SDI (State Disability Insurance) - $1,320 Total tax - $38,515 Net pay * $81,485 Marginal tax rate 43.0% Average tax rate 32.1% Real tax rate 37.1% Uk tax Yearly Monthly Weekly Gross salary £100,000 £8,333.33 £1,923.08 Income Tax £27,432 £2,286 £527.54 National Insurance £4,764.60 £397.05 £91.63 Take home pay £67,803.40 £5,650.28 £1,303.91 Uk take home pay in usd 85,223.66 so I’m actually better off in the uk
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  1407.  @teelo523  got a new gov now seems they are spending more than the tories and borrowing more money. Seems the spending is not changed.
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  1408. no one wants to work these days, they all seem to only want benefits.
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  1409. Yep because labour only have all the gold to us bankers they never changed the system
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  1410.  @taintabird23 Ireland also does not have 70 million people it has far less than London in a country almost the size of England. If you got the population increase the uk had you would have the same problems or far worse. I was in Dublin a few years ago and starting to see the same issues there as the uk areas so deprived now.
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  1411.  @taintabird23  it’s not mine I’m not British. You cannot count the whole of the uk. Ireland has less population than London. If you compare it to a place of almost the same size then London has a far greater number of overseas born people including me. Uk people are the minority now. It’s the issue people never compare like with like.
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  1412.  @taintabird23  Ireland you hardly see a foreigner outside of Dublin the uk we are everywhere. That’s the difference. People are there just for the rich companies like Microsoft they are not really contributing to the Irish economy. Once the eu does put in the anti tax haven laws and they move out. Not sure where Ireland will be.
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  1413.  @taintabird23  you will also find if you look the poverty rate in Ireland is higher than the uk at 13.1% the poverty rate in the uk is 12.1%
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  1414.  @gloin10  balls I was in Athenry a few years ago did not see one person that was not Irish. Even on the drive down there.
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  1415.  @gloin10  i think one can tell by accent
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  1416.  @gloin10  also Irish people tend to be racists as a foreigner going there all I got was racism outside of Dublin why do people want that abuse seems you hate anyone not fully white. A bit like the remainer in the uk only seem to like eu people
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  1417.  @Discodave007licencedtothrill. don’t worry labour will be in soon to shake it some more
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  1418. American cops work and British cops only arrest innocent people and let off criminals.
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  1419. Really people need to stop using credit cards and live within their means. People need to stop buying for the sake of it. Growing up in the 80s we only had 1 tv 1 computer etc, we ate when we we’re hungry, we maybe ate out once a month if we were lucky. When did people become so lazy.
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  1420.  @fredcarson2791  many people struggle because they don’t live within their means. Most pensioners are not stuggling the people who are stuggling are the same people who never worked a day in their lives and are on benefits. If you work you are fine. Pensioners got above inflation rises for the last 2 years. Inflation is high in most of the world well above the 2% targets most central banks set. People need to stop relying on cheap rates and start to live within their means.
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  1421.  @taffyterrier issue is in the uk on one wants to pay more to pay for decent pensions. In Japan you pay 500 a month even if your not working to your pension. The avg person does not even pay 400 in ni a month
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  1422. @ of course it’s the stock markets going up it’s how counties grow their gdp.
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  1423. @ well Labour are in again let’s see
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  1424. @ you also don’t need to be in debt to rent.
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  1425. @ I bought by home 3 years ago and I’m no where near retirement. My niece bought her home 1 year ago and she is 22 not from a rich family. It’s called living within your means. All my wealth will go to my kids when I die to make it easier for them like it does when everyone’s parents die. There are far too many lazy in the uk all crying that the gov aka the tax payer does not give them enough while waiting their money on labels they don’t need. Live within your means get a job if you are still poor get two jobs. Go back to uni research the market for jobs that pay well not all jobs pay minimum wage. Start Your own business etc. stop crying that the government does not give you enough free money.
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  1426. @ you cannot tax them as their money is not real it’s all in stocks and shares you can only tax this when it’s been sold if they sell it all it will be worthless. You don’t really think musk has 400 billion in cash do you.
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  1427. @ I can see you like every other poor person in the west has massive amounts of credit card debt living pay check to pay check while crying that the rich have shared worth so much. Really stop buying over priced tat you don’t need. Live within your means.
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  1428. its not real money its all QE that was pumped into shares, if this is ever sold it would crash
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  1429. To pay the 219 billion for the nhs to pay the 209 billion for people on uc and benefits top pay the 110 billion for pensions it’s not rocket science
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  1430. What makes me laugh is that they think it’s only the uk and all the tories problem. People might actually want to look at the world.
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  1431.  @emm_arr  really do you think only the uk has high inflation and going into recession.
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  1432. Hence why thick remainers want them they think they are smart yet they can only move country with fom what does that tell you.
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  1433.  @buzzukfiftythree  the USA is far worse than the uk at least you still have an nhs. You might all hate it and don’t want to pay for it. But you have it.
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  1434. Should be how remainers damaged the uk. Because you lost your fom. I keep hearing how smart remainers are why can you not move country without fom. If you hate your country do much and love the eu so much use your intelligence to find work in the eu. Brexit did not put prices up the war in Ukraine and the fuel cost did. Food inflation in the USA has gone up 36% if this is to do with brexit why has food inflation only gone up 12% in the uk also can you tell me why inflation in the Netherlands is higher than the uk and why inflation in Germany is the same as the uk while wage growth in Germany is -4.4% anyone would think it’s only the uk suffering. I really do not understand how people watch this nonsense of brexit hurting the uk. Remainers are just sad because they are so thick that they cannot move country. If you want to move maybe put 1% of that knowledge to getting a degree that you can use for a job and move.
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  1435.  @dunnomate3587 the best benefit of Brexit is now thick Brits like yourself can no longer leave the uk.
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  1436. Funny how the British media was going on about Putin meddling in uk politics yet are doing the same in the USA hypocrisy at its best.
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  1437. No it’s simple supply and demand. Issue is the uk still has mass migration.
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  1438. I have been all over the world since brexit and I moved to the uk 6 years ago the only people everyone is laughing at are remainers you seem to hate the uk yet are too thick to leave it for your great eu. The issue people see around the world is no one wants remainers the reason being is you have no skills even your own country cannot employ you. You want fom because you cannot move country any other way. There are 180 counties in the world outside of the eu their people have no trouble moving country why because they have skills. You have nothing to offer that is why no one wants you. You are the laughing stock not the people who voted for brexit.
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  1439.  @user-kc1tf7zm3b  everything I went to oz before covid to visit some mates in Sydney. It’s crazy expensive now. Staying at there home. Groceries are far more expensive, a scooner in a pub it’s far more expensive than a pint of beer. What they pay for rent is more expensive than renting in London. I went before the rugby World Cup in 2003 and oz was so cheap. It’s got so crazy expensive now.
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  1440.  @user-kc1tf7zm3b  my friends did not live in the cdb. They live in north past Avalon.
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  1441.  @user-kc1tf7zm3b  the reason I went to Sydney was because we were looking to move. But came to the uk instead I earn more money In London than I would in Sydney and everything is cheaper here hence why we moved to the uk.
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  1442.  @user-kc1tf7zm3b  then why is the uk the 20th most expensive country in the world and oz is the 11th.
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  1443.  @user-kc1tf7zm3b  you keep saying I’m making baseless claims without backing it up, please show me where oz is cheaper than the uk and the tax is less. Oz is the 11 most expensive country and the uk is 20th. If you cannot then go back to your own message as you are making baseless claims. Search for the most expensive countries and both oz and nz are above the uk now.
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  1444.  @user-kc1tf7zm3b  cost of living calc Sydney is 6% higher than London. Groceries are 26.6% higher than London. Transport price 4.70a$ in London in Sydney 7.17 for stating price on taxi. Petrol price 2.02a$ in London in oz 3.15a$ avg price of a Volkswagen Golf uk 35,000 a$ 42,000 in oz.
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  1445.  @machidaman  I did not pick it someone else did. Please reread but as you think it’s me, I take it you cannot read. What is funny though is this is about brexit and europe and they brought up oz. Which last time I looked is not in Europe or the eu. So cannot make it up,
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  1446.  @user-kc1tf7zm3b  so they hate the uk due to brexit and move to a country with no freedom of movement the same sort of migration policy the uk has now makes sense and move as far away from the eu as they can get again makes sense.
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  1447.  @machidaman  the guy who moved to oz and the other Brits do not have fom yet they can move without fom. Isn’t that funny.
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  1448.  @machidaman  I guess also why I have never seen a smart remainer while working in the uk. All the skilled jobs seem to be taken by people from Hong Kong, the USA and oz and nz. Don’t see anyone from the eu or Brits other than brexiteers. Why is that. Are all remainers on benefits?
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  1449.  @machidaman  so you love fom and you move to oz. Can’t make it up.
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  1450. no just lazy people in the uk always wanting more from the tax payer it will be no different under the next gov as people in the uk have just become reliant on free money
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  1451. Are you on crack, in California where I am from there are 100s of thousands of people living in their cars because they cannot afford homes many are on 100k salaries.
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  1452. People forgot rates can go up
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  1453. @ the main issue was people spent well beyond their means when rates for low on rubbish they did not need. Then they blame the rich for it.
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  1454.  @markshirley01 that is not 100% true as you miss out the 1.2 trillion debt Labour gave to us bankers. You put that on the tories but it was pledged by Labour.
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  1455. So glad the uk is out with these countries in the eu. Watched a documentary on c4 how so many came to the uk to claim benefits and send them back to build homes. Really who needs people like this.
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  1456. Funny they keep saying they did not vote for asylum seekers they voted in Labour.
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  1457. For every pound you put in the bank the bank prints 8 pound on that. When a person opens a morg, the bank sets up the account they only have to deposit 250 pound with the boe. So that is new printed money it’s not taken from savings as people think.
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  1458.  @andrewlee6576  yep paying for it with higher interest and I’m loving it can save for once again yay
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  1459.  @ascgazz  who is the only complaining how poor they are hey
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  1460.  @ascgazz  the only xenophobic people I have met are remainers, you all hate anyone who is not white. Why do you want to treat people from the eu differently to people from outside of the eu. Is it because they are not white. I’m not a xenophobic person and I’m in your country with my foreign wife on a visa it’s people like you who hate people like me, because we pay into your Country for visas and the nhs surcharge. You hate us because we have no recourse to benefits and cannot do 0hr contracts. Yet you love anyone who comes in on 0hr contacts and I work bens and pretend they pay in. You do that do you have have your unskilled migration to the eu when you retire. Because not one of you is educated enough to get a visa for another country. Then you cry about it troll others and have the cheek to call them trolls. Maybe go back to uni get some skills and then you might actually be able to move to your great eu.
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  1461.  @ascgazz  yet I’m 45 with no debt tens of 1000s of savings. Over pay my morg each month and living the higher rates for my interest. I have no loans 4 of us pay 2000 each for visas and 640 for the nhs surcharge every 2.5 years and yet I can still afford to save half my salary each month over pay my morg by double so nope don’t think I need to follow you. You most be the only remainer doing well all I keep hearing from others how poor you all are. There are now 1.2 million jobs available in the uk wage growth is now 6.4% the avg high interest rate is now 5% im loving this brexit. The only people who seem to hate it are remainers it’s like you don’t want wage growth or jobs.
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  1462. You don’t need pr you need longer terms if a government only thinks in 5 year terms they don’t ever fix anything. They always think they will be voted out so do the minimum to stay in power. Look at Singapore always thinking 20 years in the future as they stay in power. You cannot invest as the next party will just scrap it you saw that with Blair and brown just kept what the tories did they still blame thatcher for everything yet they were in for 14 years after thatcher and she has been dead for 12 years.
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  1463.  @therealrobertbirchall  labour were in for 14 years since then can you tell me why they did not unchange what the tories did everyone keeps blaming the tories Labour have been in since
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  1464.  @therealrobertbirchall  labour will be in again by next year I’ll ask you again what Labour are doing to fix what you suggest the tories have done. I guess you will still blame the tories even when Labour are in power again.
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  1465.  @silvafox7719  labour allowed rbs to buy Abn causing a massive mess then sold half the gold on the cheap and borrows 1.2 trillion to give to the rich. Labour did nothing for the poor. But I can’t wait for Labour to get back in let’s see how well they do now there is no gold to sell and no way to borrow money.
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  1466. Yet I filled my tank with unleaded today at 145
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  1467.  @imwithstupid00011  also wages are much higher than they were in ww2 and more workers rights people want to be paid more yet they don’t want to pay more for anything. To me it does not matter how much something costs as long as you are paid well for it. The issue in the uk is everyone wants to be paid more but expects everything to stay cheap.
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  1468. What is funny you say brexiteers don’t have a brain yet you still live in the uk and cannot leave without fom. Really I wonder who does not have a brain as if you did and it was that bad why have you not left.
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  1469. Going well for me but I live within my means, don’t see any difference to before brexit and after.
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  1470. Tories won’t get in best thing to do now is just give the nhs want they want borrow more give teachers and trains a massive rise run up the debt so much that labour have to cut.
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  1471. What you mean is that you want free money from us working people but don’t want to work.
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  1472.  @neonkn873 no people are not paid well as the costs of everything in the USA is very expensive now. I moved to the uk 6 years ago from Singapore rather than going back to the USA as the USA is too expensive now. I am married to a Japanese women and once my kids finish college in the uk we will move back to Japan.
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  1473. Why remainers love it they cannot stand democracy
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  1474. I thought that was the eu according to remoaners
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  1475. Haha poor baby crying because his too thick to move country without fom.
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  1476. Haha escaping Brexit remainers are too thick to move they will not be leaving Brexit Britain. I was in France last week and seems far more issues in France than in Brexit uk.
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  1477.  @hudson7354  yet not one eu country are in it so now we could not. As the uk did not manage its trade agreements in the eu.
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  1478.  @mdluk199 they tended to be on low wage and in work bens non eu migrants are better as we pay in for visas and have no recourse to benefits.
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  1479.  @stephenconway2468  what makes me thing that my visa it says no recourse to benefits.
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  1480.  @stephenconway2468  how can you contribute more non eu migrants pay I. For visas at 2k a pop every 2.5 years eu migrants paid no visa charged they also pay in 640 for the nhs surcharge every 2.5 years and pay tax and ni eu migrants hardly paid in tax and ni and took out benefits like child benefits that non eu migrants do not get.
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  1481.  @stephenconway2468  I am on a work visa migrants to the uk get no benefits no the uk is out of the eu eu migrants now pay the same as us. To me the uk should be welcoming us paying in for your benefits. I take it you don’t work as you cannot add up simple math. It’s the issue with people like you you need us migrants here as you are all to thick to work.
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  1482.  @stephenconway2468  now I can see why all the Brits are on benefits if they are like you. Cannot even work out simple maths. Stay on your benefits and let me like me pay for you.
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  1483.  @stephenconway2468  I’m on a work visa the same visa they are talking about here you moron. You are talking about asylum visas were people get benefits. They get 47 pounds loaded to a Visa card and their rent paid. They get nothing compared to what your eu friends got in benefits. Anyone on the visa they are talking about here get nothing.
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  1484.  @Lagerfanny-g7e  they still won’t work they will cry they the nasty tories or nasty Labour Party won’t pay them more.
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  1485.  @Lagerfanny-g7e  you don’t get benefits on a visa. You are talking about asylum seekers who are not affected by these visas. People on these visas have to work and have no recourse to benefits stamped for them to get benefits they will need to work atleast 5 years and apply for pr they are paying for Brits benefits. You do understand it costs 2k for visas every 2 years and 640 for the nhs surcharge and they pay tax and ni too and get no benefits.
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  1486.  @stephenconway2468  they claim benefits non eu migrants cannot claim benefits it’s simple math. If you Brits actually got off your lazy keysters and worked you would not need any of us here.
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  1487.  @stephenconway2468  forgot to say it’s a moot point now eu migrants are treated the same as us non eu migrants now and now they are oh wait now they cannot get benefits and have to pay for visas oh wait they are not coming so again shows you are wrong. If they pay in more and take out less why are they not coming now they are treated the same.
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  1488.  @stephenconway2468  no anger from me it seems the anger is from the lazy Brits who won’t work will never work yet hate people like me being here. If it was not for people like me you Brits would not get your benefits.
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  1489.  @stephenconway2468  I am on a work visa here.
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  1490.  @stephenconway2468  With a Skilled Worker visa you can: work in an eligible job study bring your partner and children with you as your ‘dependants’, if they’re eligible take on additional work in certain circumstances do voluntary work travel abroad and return to the UK apply to settle permanently in the UK (also known as ‘indefinite leave to remain’) if you’ve lived in the UK for 5 years and meet the other eligibility requirements You cannot: apply for most benefits (public funds), or the State Pension change jobs or employer unless you apply to update your visa
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  1491.  @stephenconway2468  can you read on a visa you cannot apply for benefits With a Skilled Worker visa you can: work in an eligible job study bring your partner and children with you as your ‘dependants’, if they’re eligible take on additional work in certain circumstances do voluntary work travel abroad and return to the UK apply to settle permanently in the UK (also known as ‘indefinite leave to remain’) if you’ve lived in the UK for 5 years and meet the other eligibility requirements You cannot: apply for most benefits (public funds), or the State Pension change jobs or employer unless you apply to update your visa
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  1492.  @stephenconway2468  in the time I have lived in the uk I have paid over 30k in just visa and nhs surcharge for me my wife and my 2 kids most Brits will not have even paid this in their life time of paying tax if you are on minimum wage. My wife and I work and we pay tax and ni on top of that. If I lose my job I have 2 weeks to find another one and put in the paper work to change my visa if I don’t I get deported. I don’t want to get pr as you say most of us go home. I am here as I can offer the uk a skill and most Brits would not do my job or could not. I have no intention to stay in the uk. When I retire but why I am here I will contribute and integrate.
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  1493.  @stephenconway2468  me too I wish you did not need us here too. I really wish many Brits would work. Issue is what I see here is too many people work short hours for the benefits rather than working to get a better job. They do eduction that is meaning less and complain that they gave student loans which they will never pay off. To me we have 1000s of jobs available in my company and there are over 1 million in the uk if people just worked.
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  1494.  @stephenconway2468  you too take care
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  1495. Oh wait so the same style recession as when the uk was in the eu. Lol
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  1496. I have been In the uk for the last 8 years all I hear from Brits is how poor they are, maybe they should visit Africa they are all on benefits and cry that the nasty tories are not paying them enough tax payers money they want a great nhs yet not one of them pays tax they rely on us foreigners to do that and when we take their jobs they cry yet had not intention of ever getting a job by gods chance that they got a job they work 16hrs so the nasty tories do not cut their benefits.
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  1497. Uk needs to look at the world most of the 27 countries of the eu the uk has little trade with.
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  1498. Atleast an almost ok rate for savings
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  1499. Good the USA should of put economic sanctions on the eu for keep buying it and funding the war.
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  1500. Migrants don’t want to be in the eu anyway the only people who want to be there are remainers why don’t we make an exchange send the 17 million remainers down the uk to the eu and the uk take the migrants lol
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  1501. Brits just don’t want to work, Brit graduates do degrees that will never get them jobs cry how much their uni is yet sit on benefits all their lives. I have been in the uk now 8 years in that time we have not hired one Brit. The only Brits who work for the company are over 40 years old. Really Brits if you want to work in computing you do do a degree in social studies. Brits really have that become lazy. They cry that foreigners are taking their jobs yet would rather sit in a job working 16hrs and being topped up on benefits.
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  1502. Funny how I hear from Labour that they have not been in for 14 years yet they are still claiming thatcher for everything when they were in power after her.
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  1503. why dont lazy brits get off the 16hr contracts and get jobs then you wont need us here.
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  1504.  @justinjoseph8491  no we dont we spend it here we just dont complain like you brits. really do you think in a cost of living crisis we have the money to send back home. you brits cry you cannot afford to heat and eat yet we send all our money back home. really its time for you to get off benefits and get a job.
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  1505.  @unionjackjackson4352  we pay tax and ni and pay for visas and the nhs surcharge you fool. we pay far more in than you lazy brits. how much do you get in benefits we have no recourse to benefits. why dont you lazy brits get jobs then you wont need us here.
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  1506. Yet the uk grew by 0.6% and the eu only 0.3% seems uk doing better than the eu
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  1507.  @GaryV-p3h  world bank has the uk grow at 4.3% while the eu only 3.4%
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  1508.  @GaryV-p3h  uk out growing the eu. Remainers are just a joke. All because you lot lost your fom. You do understand you lot have been out of the eu for 6 years now you could have got educated and the work skills to get visas to live in the eu that is doing worse than the uk.
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  1509.  @GaryV-p3h  can you tell me now the uk is out of the eu how that unemployment is going in the eu now they don’t have the uk for their unemployment queues how is the fom working out for the eu with all these unemployment figures going up.
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  1510.  @checker297  the Brits and us train for all warfare.
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  1511. His anti American too his making the USA poorer.
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  1512. Really should of deported all eu people when the uk left the eu
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  1513.  @peterbroad1772 that is because we pay in 2k a pop for visas and 640 for the nhs surcharge eu people paid in nothing. We also have no recourse to benefits unlike eu people also Brits were meant to work but it seems they would much rather 16hr contracts and to get benefits than work.
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  1514.  @deangregoric4735 last time I looked it did when the uk was in the eu so how has that changed
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  1515. Next time France is in trouble the Brits and us should stay out of it they have the eu now.
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  1516.  @PK1999  I’m not they can all leave
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  1517. Isn’t it funny when he was in the opposition he has all the answers. His in power and still blaming the tories. Come on where are all the answer. Did he not say he would stop austerity over night yet his put more austerity on pensioners. lol
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  1518. People are sick of Biden
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  1519.  @skurinski  yep all Labour
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  1520.  @maximilianbeyer5642  yet they still won’t be able to blame the tories
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  1521. Korea and Japan have the hottest women how can they have such low birth rates.
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  1522. Yes they did go up just thicko a on benefits always want more from the gov.
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  1523.  @beepboopbeepp yes it did these people are on benefits or minimum wage and expect the gov to give them more money we all got decent rises the people that work.
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  1524.  @luke7842 that again is not true us who work got 4% back on ni
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  1525. Was in nz a few weeks back got so expensive 10 bucks for 12 eggs in countdown.
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  1526. Labour don’t want people working easy to control people when they take handouts
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  1527. Well it would seem with rejoin eu not getting any seats and the snp losing most of theirs that it’s nothing to do with wanting to rejoin the eu.
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  1528. It’s nothing to do with being a globalist Brits just don’t want to work or you want to work 16hrs so your benefits are not cut. You need us migrants here to pay in tax to pay for these top up benefits. If Brits actually worked you would not need us here. You cry daily the nasty tories are not giving you enough tax payers money sign off benefits and work.
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  1529. 34 billion, labour gave the bankers 1.2 trillion I think that is more of scandals than what the tories waisted. How quick labour forget.
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  1530. They will get more than rejoin eu lol
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  1531. To me anyone who could not change their business after Brexit deserves to go under.
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  1532. Yet the price of homes increased far more under the last labour gov than all Tory governments.
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  1533. Should stop all their benefits how much is this costing the uk tax payer. They should not get anything until it’s paid off.
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  1534. The uk has the freedom to have lazy dolies who take off the state. Take off the disabled and take of pensioners and the nhs and complain the nasty tories don’t get them more.
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  1535. Good
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  1536. Yet the uk economy grew 0.6% where as the eu only grew 0.3% Germany and France only 0.2% so it looks like the eu are losing a lot more than the uk.
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  1537.  @w47w  the uk is not minus last year the uk grew 4.2% the eu only 3% world bank figures not mine. Germany over took japan due to the yen being weak that’s all not because their economy is growing. The eu is doing nothing compared to the uk in the finance world not one eu city is even In the top 10 and Frankfurt and Paris have actually fallen down the rankings. London is still 2nd.
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  1538. No it’s not the guy is a idiot, his last video is the uk bankrupt. Anyone knows if a country can print money it cannot go bankrupt.
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  1539.  @ch0293  or uk people are just greedy pigs. I’m sure the USA is not forcing British people to get into debt. They are not forcing you to spend on things you don’t need. Americans are not forcing you to be obsessed with growth. They are not forcing you to be obsessed with cheap labour and cheap goods.
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  1540. I’m surprised the left is not back in force in the uk. I have never met a bigger bunch of lazy people in my life that don’t want to pay in anything and just want everything free. They say the uk is work shy but really. I work in the uk in a office of 3000 people and there is not one Brit working there. How can this be with a nation of almost 70 million people it seems they either do minimum wage jobs and do 16hrs so their benefits don’t get cut or don’t work at all. No wonder all the remainers wanted to stay in the eu to keep their benefits so they don’t have to work. I mean there are 1000s of high paying jobs in the uk yet you cannot get anyone to fill these jobs because they all take degree in social work. It’s crazy.
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  1541.  @MrDesmondPot  haha lazy troll replies to me calling me a troll got to love it get a job na you cannot get one of them you need people like me to pay for you and when the tories dont give you enough of our tax payers money you call them nasty.
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  1542. Ireland has a tiny population really try getting 1.2 million people a year like the UK, Ireland should take more people can you take the 17.5 million remainers
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  1543. Funny I keep getting told by remainers that the uk is short of workers due to brexit if this is the case why does Germany have a shortage of workers. All these 26 other countries should be given them workers oh wait they are all short of workers too lol.
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  1544. One saying the grass is never greener on the other side. It was the same in California so I moved to England. Isn’t it funny Ireland has the same issues and it’s in the eu. lol
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  1545. The left has won capital gains tax is going up to 45% landlords will want to get out the ones anyway that don’t have overseas companies that they can ship the money offshore. It will be bought up by one of these and given to an asylum seeker on uc and housing bens.
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  1546. really how can eu people get bens in the first place people who paid nothing into the system should not be able to get out.
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  1547. Maybe go to Germany
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  1548.  @vorong2ru there is no shortage of labour in the uk just people don’t want to work in these jobs so you will have to bring in more of us migrants to build the homes this will force the prices up more as you cannot build over night. Also it’s always the wrong type of homes that are built I live near an old hospital. That was sold for 1 pound to build homes by brown’s government what was built on it 1 million pound homes no one on benefits would be able to afford them even with housing bens.
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  1549. Why don’t they house these people with the left wing who want them here. Anyone who stops a flight leaving should be made to take them in their homes.
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  1550. Typical of labour isn’t it funny they go in about the tories yet have more politicians in jail.
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  1551. No remainers are they hate anyone who is not from the white eu.
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  1552. Well no freedom of movement of cheap labour and people on in work bens so they won’t fall lol
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  1553. What is funny about this is I saw a documentary set in 2013 in Grimsby and seems the uk fishing industry was almost gone back then. Replaced with cheap labour from the eu. So many people unemployed due to the eu. It’s called skint Grimsby. I would suggest the uk stop renewing eu license when they expire.
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  1554. No only a few morons want to rejoin the eu. Rejoin eu got 1000 votes.
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  1555. Vote labour this is what you get why don’t people learn. You don’t see this in libdem or Tory areas.
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  1556. Good job the uk is out of the eu we would have to pay for this
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  1557. Brits and Americans will always be cousins we have our banter but always love our British brothers well done UK for sending people to the USA.
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  1558.  @malcolmkempster7858  most Americans love the Brits even trump loves the uk Biden hates the uk funny thing is as an American I hate both Biden and trump lol why I left the USA for the uk.
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  1559. @@jamem it can’t act it’s in the eu. The eu sets Irelands migration policy.
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  1560. getting better inflation down and rates are still high what more can us savers want, its always going to be bad for people who rely on cheap credit to keep up with the jones. Rates should never go down again.
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  1561. Labour need to bring back Rwanda and strip all these people of their passports and send them there. Take away their benefits to pay for all the damage. Why should the tax payer and services be cut to pay for all this damage.
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  1562. Vote for labour is a vote for crime.
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  1563. Last time I looked the tories do not pay bonuses for bankers. So how can they give them bonuses?
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  1564. that is really going to boost the economy, taxing the rich to pay for even more lazy people
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  1565. yep looks like the eu won lol United Kingdom 0.2 0.6 Mar/23 % Ireland -0.2 12 Mar/23 % Poland -0.3 2.3 Mar/23 % Finland -0.4 0.1 Mar/23 % Luxembourg -0.41 -2.17 Mar/23 % Czech Republic -0.5 0.3 Mar/23 % Germany -0.5 0.8 Mar/23 % Hungary -0.9 0.4 Mar/23 % Russia -1.8 -2.7 Mar/23 % Moldova -2.4 -10.6 Mar/23 % Lithuania -2.5 -0.4 Mar/23 % Estonia -3.2 -4.1 Mar/23 % Belarus -4.5 -5.4 Dec/22 % Ukraine -10.5 -31.4 Mar/23 %
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  1566. Don’t you mean record taxes to pay for the lazy who won’t work.
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  1567.  @user-ug8wx5er1w  definitely demand but at the moment one would think we are communist now with all the uturns and tax coming lol. All to pay for the lazy.
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  1568. @Mr Kanaka get over what.
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  1569. @Mr Kanaka I’m happy the more people who come in the more my home goes up. The more the better.
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  1570. @Mr Kanaka what makes me laugh though is the rich will get around tax all these tax increases will bring in less but won’t do anything to cut the rent of the people. Im actually laughing at the left. Lol
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  1571. @Mr Kanaka I still have no gripe about it. I think it’s good that they do it. Who would want to pay tax so lazy people don’t work.
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  1572.  @arnoldrimmer4025  why should the government control house prices it was the last labour government who gave the interest rates to the boe to control. Them putting rates down to zero has given far to much cheap money. This has also forced prices up by a lot less than demand if you cannot see that your a bigger fool that I think. Uk house price is still far cheaper than many other countries and migration from hk and many other countries are far more expensive I came here from Hong Kong and I sold my home there and bought here it’s far cheaper here but you Brits cannot afford it. If you keep this mentality up of it’s all the governments fault for not controlling prices then you will keep suffering.
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  1573.  @timnick79  and Ireland only has 5 million people, got to tell you something and a lot more land.
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  1574.  @arnoldrimmer4025  by the way I don’t read the daily mail I read the real stats. Stop reading the guardian and maybe check out stats eu and trading economics you might learn soemthing. But you won’t because far to easy to blame the daily mail and the government when I own my own home and your in poverty. I’m also from the USA I’m not a lazy Brit who blames everyone else. I’m telling the truth.
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  1575.  @arnoldrimmer4025  and yet I work in banking and moved in from Hong Kong. I have worked in banking in Tokyo, nyc, Singapore and now London. The issue is idiots like you thinking you know economics why being on benefits. Time for you Brits to get jobs. Really leave the economics to the experts, the left are really killing this country because they appeal to people like you who know nothing. People like you think people like me pay in no tax to your country so you want to remove our pay you want our bonuses to be cut when we are paying your benefits. Please just go back get an education and get a job and pay in rather than keep taking out.
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  1576.  @arnoldrimmer4025  still does not mean it’s not far cheaper to buy homes here than in nyc, Singapore, Hong Kong many of us have moved over since the gov in hk and we have bought homes here for half the price of Hong Kong, all my friends who have moved here have bought up homes, half of the bank I work for have bought up homes, for their staff to move over. This will drive up price for the locals as you cannot afford to do this. The more migration you have the lack of building will force up the price. Even with the rates rise. You might be able to move up north and get a cheap home but unless they move work up there what is the point.
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  1577.  @arnoldrimmer4025  I do love you Brits though want mass migration and still think you can build 370,000 homes a year when 12 million of your people don’t want to work.
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  1578.  @tobymaltby6036  don’t you already have free health care well not free the idiots who work pay for it. lol
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  1579.  @McRocking  the trouble is no jobs and people on the dole don’t want to move, really they should force people on benefits to live outside of London.
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  1580.  @arnoldrimmer4025  it’s a fact that most Brits are on some form of benefits it’s why you need people like me in your country to pay for visas and the nhs surcharge and 45% tax. As you lazy Brits would rather sit on benefits than pay into your own country while complaing about people like me being here.
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  1581.  @arnoldrimmer4025  we got a small bailout Brits are bailed out all the time from your government that is why rather than ask the company you work for. For a pay rise you ask the government and if they don’t pay more to top up your benefits you go on strike. Rather than keep asking your government ask your boss. Last time I looked it was the labour government that bailed out the banks too not the tories. Lol the labour government got it right gave nothing to the people all the money to the banks. The tories have all the money to the people and they still hate them lol.
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  1582.  @arnoldrimmer4025  you might want to check the stats they are on the gov website , 30 million Brits working and 22 million are on some form of benefits. How do you keep a country running when most of you are on bens.
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  1583.  @arnoldrimmer4025  I’ll tell you, you use the 10 million people like me on work visa and paying the nhs surcharge. While earning a decent salary and no recourse to bens.
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  1584.  @arnoldrimmer4025  the issue with most remoaner Brits you don’t want people like me you want slave labour eu workers on minimum wage because it allows you to stay on benefits and not work. You don’t want these people to go as you have to get off your lazy butts.
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  1585.  @arnoldrimmer4025  😂
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  1586.  @pebblepod30  that would be racist in the uk if you cut out the people from overseas the rest of the world is not woke like the uk.
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  1587.  @project-95  the government is to blame for topping up your wages lol, why don’t you do what everyone else does around the world, ask your boss for a pay rise not the government. Why is the company you work for going to pay you more when they know you won’t ask them for a payrise. When you don’t get more money from the tories you cry. Lol I keep being told my American education was poor. You Brits really need to look at yourselves. You are thick as two planks.
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  1588.  @project-95  the people of the uk failed it’s people, you all keep saying you need more migration you need eu migration. You do understand the amount of people you lot want to bring in and have brought in you need to build around 300,000 homes a year. You don’t want to build on the green belt so where are you going to build all these homes. Some people realise this and vote brexit and you call them racists. No one seems to want to move up north and all your migrants want to be In the south if you want a cheap home you can move up north but all of you want to be in the south. I have been In your country for 3 years and had no issue buying a home. I’m sure on 50k there are many places you can buy a home especially when the avg home price in the uk is 250,000 that is only 4 times the amount you can borrow on a morg they will lend up to 7* salary now. So what do you think the government should ask companies to set the rate of pay in this country then if you can get bens on 50k so you think everyone should be paid 100k lol forgot to add a 100,000 migrants from hk hurt uk housing but 5 million from the eu did nothing lol
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  1589.  @project-95  so again how do you build 300k homes a year in the south of the country where you cannot build on the green belt. You seem to have all the ideas. Especially when most Brits don’t seem to want to work. To me it’s not the government who has failed its people it’s the remainers who want nothing more than mass migration from the eu. Tony Blair was the main person here who invited the whole of the eu with no plan to build homes.
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  1590.  @project-95  not blaiming the poor can you show me where I said that I’m blaming the remainers for wanting mass migration with no policy to build homes. You seem to blame this government for everything while forgetting out the labour government that also built no homes and opened up the doors to the whole of Eastern Europe. While also giving rates to the boe to set to 0. I would also not say the people on bens are poor I would actually say the person who earns 50001 is the poor as they get no bens. Also what makes no sense is you can live in Eastbourne and claim 7k a month on bens. Have 8 kids and neglect them in the uk seems no point in actually working when you can work get 50001 pound working and 87k on bens.
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  1591.  @pebblepod30  haha the oz government sent in the sas the last time asylum seekers tried to land in oz. Are you now saying oz has my asylum applications and more migrants than the uk. Last time I looked oz was 20 times the size of the uk with 20 million people, there are more people in London than the west of Australia and you call the uk racist and xenophobic, think you might want to look at oz. Can you also tell me where oz trade deals are that allow fom.
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  1592.  @pebblepod30  worked lol sending refugees to a small island. Don’t make me laugh.
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  1593.  @pebblepod30  just do what the left wants let them all in, not sure where you will house them all but seems they want them all in and not to be in migrant centres maybe they should live in the peoples homes that want them all in. Lol
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  1594.  @pebblepod30  immigrants are not the enemy thats the point.
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  1595.  @pebblepod30  your a racist living in oz
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  1596.  @pebblepod30  I’m not a child racist
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  1597.  @pebblepod30  I do love a racist
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  1598.  @pebblepod30  so you don’t believe in open migration and you say you didn’t say migration is the issue. Also you say you love the eu and the uk should be part of th eu and have fom but you moved to oz a country with no freedom of movement. You moved 20k miles away from the eu. Makes no sense.
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  1599.  @pebblepod30  ok racist piss off
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  1600. They cannot they printed to much money during covid also the dollar is under valued to and everything on the market is bought In dollars.
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  1601.  @theancientsancients1769  because it already crashed in 2008 then we had 15 years of printing money and qe they had finally caught up.
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  1602.  @ageoflove1980  it got as low as 1.08 in 2007
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  1603.  @ageoflove1980  pound is also 1.24 against the dollar now so only really down .06 on the value since leaving the eu.
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  1604.  @ageoflove1980  the pound has risen since it dropped 20% quite a bit
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  1605.  @ageoflove1980  I’m going to japan in July and the pound is rising a lot against the yen now and the USA in aug. Going there is now making it cheaper again for me. Last time I went to japan the pound was 127 and there when the uk was in the eu.
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  1606.  @ageoflove1980  how has the eu helped Greece too in 2007 it’s gdp was 319bil today it’s 216bil they are poorer now they in 2008 seems being in the eu does not really make a country richer.
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  1607.  @jimwright1148  and what was it before brexit
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  1608.  @jimwright1148  2009 it was as low as 1.08
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  1609.  @kennztube  the uk is not in recession you need two qs of negative growth at the moment the uk growth rate is better than most eu countries. United Kingdom 0 -0.2 Italy -0.1 0.5 Czech Republic -0.3 -0.2 Croatia -0.4 1.5 Germany -0.4 0.5 Hungary -0.4 -0.7 Greece -0.5 0.6 Iceland -0.5 3.7 Finland -0.6 -0.1 Serbia -0.7 1.2 Sweden -0.9 0.2 Lithuania -1.7 1.6 Estonia -1.8 -1.3 Poland -2.4 1 Moldova -8.4 -2.8
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  1610. crazy, I guess its the consumer mentality, Also the plastic surgery ind to look good and want everything you cannot have.
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  1611. Vote labour pay more.
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  1612.  @happycatyoutube  no it’s not hence why inflation in the uk is lower than the eu.
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  1613. Did labour give you that free milk back oh wait no.
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  1614.  @dionbaillargeon4899  no they did not they crashed the economy they gave rates to the banks to set. They sold off most of the hospitals and built homes for the rich. They caused the house price to triple by dropping rates to almost 0.
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  1615.  @EllenWst  the economy was not recovering in 2010 that’s why the Labour gov was voted out. Stop making up ball crap. Don’t worry labour will be in soon. Let’s see if Labour produce any economic growth.Labour sold off all the gold to pay for their mess up in allowing the banks to do what they wanted Labour needed the boe to drop rates to almost 0 for any growth. All the growth came in house prices. Going up 10 to 20% a year due to this. Labour are the reason people cannot afford homes due to this and people want to go back to almost 0 rates again because they relied on the cheap credit Labour gave them to spend beyond their means.
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  1616. Can you provide a credible source for this gdp loss. Can you tell me if this is true why is uk gdp growth 0.6% and eu growth only 0.3%
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  1617.  @c.c.8841  they can’t they are too thick to get visas.
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  1618.  @peterclareburt4594  yet uk growth is 0.6% France is only 0.2% and the eu has a whole only 0.3% seems the uk growing faster than the eu.
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  1619.  @c.c.8841  they are too thick to go no skills anyone wants
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  1620. really seems the eu doing far worse than the uk lol every gdp stat shows all the top eu economies in negative growth all but france the only thing keep in the eu in positive numbers is the eastern european economies lol. They are more like 3rd world countries
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  1621. issue is if you leave who will pay for their benefits
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  1622.  @bigbarry8343  can you tell me who covers the public spending on lazy brits who work 16hrs and claim all the benefits under the sun
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  1623.  @bigbarry8343  cant wait for all us migrants to be deported and see who is left to pay for all you lazy brits on 16hr contracts and benefits as still when we all go not one of you lazy brits will work. Just cry the rich should pay for us.
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  1624. UK is not poor just most brits wont work and want to rely on the people who work to pay for them
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  1625. There are millions of it jobs out there. The key is your resume/cv making sure you have the right key words to beat the automated hr system and get the interview. Research the company you want to work for. Study up on not only the tech questions but make sure the team is right for you most interviewers can train you on their systems they want to know if your the right fit for them and that you will fit in with the team be sociable ask questions on company life and structure. Not only what will help your career but how you can be a team player.
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  1626.  @alquemir  that’s why they are unemployed and asking the tories for not more money.
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  1627. Brexit hitting Canada and the USA what
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  1628. Ireland are in the eu they have no choice they don’t control their own borders the uk needs to enforce its and deport anyone coming in by boat.
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  1629. Well now we can see who the think Brits are you don’t vote for pm In the uk I’m a foreigner and even I know they I take it your on benefits or work 16hrs for my tax money. Really they should just kick Brits like you out.
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  1630.  @TapOnX  the only point in time this happened in the uk was after the war. This will never happen again. Issue with most brits that like to complain they don’t have homes and homes are too expensive but they don’t want to work. So nope it will never happen. The only way it will come down is if people actually leave the uk. Issue is no matter how much people say Poland will over take the uk it will not and still far more people will come to the uk for work than go to Poland. Its economics the uk has the jobs the tech the skilled work that Poland will never have.
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  1631.  @piotrjasielski  that’s all you get though a few refugees the uk gets the refugees and migration you are also forgetting the millions that left Poland when it joined the eu. You were exiting a city the size of Warsaw every year. Really time for all these poles to go home let’s see how you cope.
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  1632.  @TapOnX  it cannot ever be replicated that’s the issue and hence why it actually got worse under the last labour government. It will do the same under this one as the uk focuses to much on migration for skills. The uk needs to build 5 million homes a year just to keep up with the population increase over the last 20 years and then 1.5 million on top of that it will never happen
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  1633.  @piotrjasielski  come back to me when Poland grows by 11 million
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  1634.  @bognagruba7653  are you telling me the millions of migrants in the uk have no where to live and no schools to go too. Funny I’m a migrant in the uk I have somewhere to live and both my kids have no issues going to school.
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  1635.  @dobcsek  time for everyone to move home then hey
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  1636.  @dobcsek  funny though according to the affordability rankings London is 100 out of 227 and Warsaw is 174 it would actually seem London is more affordable. I think your probably thinking going to Poland with a pound and spending a pound when you actually earn the local currency it would seem it’s less affordable. Source moneycorp so yep if you can earn pounds and live in Poland your be well off but if you earn the local salary and live there you probably won’t be better off.
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  1637.  @dobcsek  funny yet you suggest even with the low salary in Poland you will live better now your saying the money is better in the uk which is it
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  1638.  @dobcsek  I just checked for my job the avg salary in Poland is 7590 pln that I’d 1500 a month in pounds so yep things should be cheaper in Poland if that is all one can earn. Not sure my life will be better in Poland on that
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  1639.  @dobcsek  Poland is 98.8% polish the uk is 83% British people don’t want to migrate to Poland even the polish leave in their droves. The uk people want to come to the uk.that’s the difference. 3 million poles alone live in Germany, uk and France. Really you can’t tell me Poland is that great when so many left to move to these countries. lol
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  1640.  @27moniczek81  there are still over 800k poles living in the uk. 718k living in England or 1.3% of the English population. Again isn’t it so funny how their country is so rich and much better than the uk and there are still so many here. Poland is so great yet there are only 6k brits living in Poland lol maybe time for them all to go home.
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  1641.  @piotrjasielski  come back to me when there are more brits in Poland than poles in the uk and polands gdp is anywhere near the uk. I don’t see Poland catching the uk in the next 200 years let alone soon lol 862.91 billion, and its GDP per capita is expected to be $23,560 vs $4.029 trillion 57,338. Poland is no where near the uk.
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  1642.  @piotrjasielski  funny British people go to Japan, Hong Kong, oz, nz and the USA not to Poland all need visas. Poles could only come to the uk working in hospitality on minimum wage. It’s not the Brits lowering your standards it was eu people lowering uk standards. Now the uk needs people on visas poles cannot come as your education at degree level is substandard compared to the uk.
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  1643.  @piotrjasielski  your highest uni is between 501-600 in the world really I’m so glad the uk is out of the eu the uk should never of taken low skilled low paid people in the first place.
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  1644.  @piotrjasielski  not true the uk is ranked The UK is usually ranked somewhere around 10th to 12th in the most respected assessments for overall quality of life. In a world of about 200 countries, where as Poland was ranked 37th. You lot need to stop making up crap. Again if Poland was so great all the poles would have gone home by now.
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  1645.  @piotrjasielski  there is not one uni in the top ten stop your nonsense considering I could not vote in the uk nope I did not vote for Brexit. But I’m glad it happened no more unskilled eu people can move to the uk. To me you all should be like us moving on visas. I got my British passport last year can you not see that Japanese passport in my picture.
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  1646.  @piotrjasielski  Poland is so great for education can you tell me why all the poles in the uk are on minimum wage.
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  1647.  @piotrjasielski  poles so educated lol they do all the poor paying jobs Poles flooded into Britain working as builders, barmaids and farm labourers. Some 800,000 Poles are now believed to be living and working here.
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  1648. Maybe getting so many people off bens 55% of the population are taking out more than they pay in.
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  1649. I take it you have not been to the USA lately so many people earning more than 100k living in cars now. It’s the world since covid.
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  1650. This is why the uk should never of let eu people claim benefits.
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  1651. it has along way to go to get to its 2007 levels.
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  1652. The only truth about brexit is so called smart remainers are so thick they cannot move country without fom. If they were so smart at the uk was so bad they would of moved country by now in truth all the so called smart remainers are on benefits and don’t work.
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  1653. Uk needs to build homes but who would build these homes Brits just don’t want to work you blame the government but Brits would rather be on uc and housing bens than work. So you would have to import even more of us foreigners to build the homes that you cannot keep up with now as 1.2 million of us are coming in each year to do the jobs at the moment.
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  1654.  @giansideros  again Brits would rather be on uc and housing bens than work can you tell me who would build all these social homes you blame the government but I’m sure you would not work building homes hey.
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  1655. Not sure they can say that very little runs on the M1 chips. They need to wait for people to move over to coding for it.
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  1656. Funny the highest rate why the uk was in the eu was 18% lol. It can keep going up great for us savers.
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  1657.  @terrancedactielle5460  no need I have a job and can afford to save can you and you are one of the poor crying over this. If your so good at English why are you so poor? Maybe concentrate on getting a job than someone else’s English. Hey then you won’t be suffering.
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  1658. Yep labour give the unions more power because that worked well in the 70s and 80s with 99% of union run businesses went under. Look at the north because of the unions all the mines, car companies and everything went because they became to expensive now everyone wants cheap rubbish from china.
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  1659. the uk is not poor the lazy are poor the people who work 18hrs to get their benefits are poor stop this nonsense get off your lazy butts and work.
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  1660. Well someone has to pay for the lazy in the uk you don’t pay for the lazy in the gulf if you don’t work there you get kicked out or you starve in the uk the so called starving are fat obese and we pay for them to eat Mac da rather than cook.
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  1661. Atleast you can see it’s working remainers why do you go to Ireland and seek asylum lol
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  1662. Because the Irish hate everyone but they hate their own country more so love move to the uk and USA then complain about the potato famine that not one of them lived through.
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  1663.  @Adaman368  can you tell me when you were starved by the Brits. When anyone in your family alive today was starved by the Brits?
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  1664.  @Adaman368  I’m am not saying no one died. The issue is the people of today think they died and suffered under the Brits they still leave in their droves and hate the Brits for it.
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  1665.  @Adaman368  can you show me where I said no one died.
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  1666.  @Adaman368  what makes me laugh is you are blaming the Brits of today who had no part of what happened in the past for the past.
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  1667.  @Adaman368  really I see it all the time I have not been in the uk long and all I hear from the Irish living in the uk is how the Brits starved them.
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  1668.  @Adaman368  I do say to them why are you here if you hate the Brits so much. The same thing you hear from the American Irish back home. Remember in my local Irish pub growing up. Really it’s time to end all this nonsense. The Brits of today have nothing to do with Irish hate. You lot need to start growing up and moving on.
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  1669.  @Adaman368  not one person alive today in Ireland was even alive during independence. Really time to move on and Ireland is now richer than the uk so again time to move on. The uk is also now out of the eu and Ireland can now move on no need to even think about the uk anymore you have 27 other countries the uk has none. Time to move on.
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  1670.  @Adaman368  what are you going to do dig up all the bodies of people 800 years ago and complain to them what they did to your country. The people of the USA killed almost all the native Indians, the people of Spain and Portugal killed all the native people of South America, the Brits killed all most all the native people of the Caribbean and put people from Africa there. I don’t see the Native American treating the white people and black people of America the same as you lot treat the Brits of today.
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  1671.  @Adaman368  the romans invaded most of Europe and killed hundreds of thousands of Brits don’t see them complaining about the romans.
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  1672.  @Adaman368  I think your find the Irish are still coming in today with the same hatred of the Brits. If people don’t like a people or a country then I would suggest not to move.
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  1673.  @Adaman368  not going to forget you don’t even remember you were not there. Lol
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  1674.  @Adaman368  anyone would think you was there.
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  1675.  @Adaman368  I’m not offended I’m just surprised that people hate the uk so much yet seem to live living there hey. If I hated a people so much and a county I can tell you I would not go. The Irish are a strange people. You hate a country and people so much yet you still want them in the eu. Why is that?
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  1676.  @Adaman368  you still have not answered a question. You hate the Brits so much yet you want them in the eu why?
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  1677.  @Adaman368  didn’t you family become terrorists for what the Brits did and kill innocent women and children over the years as recent has the late 2000s again for what they Brits need 800 years ago. Got to love the Irish cannot get over what Brits did so long ago that they kill Brits today and anyone else that they think might be part of it. Most of the people in the uk were not even in the uk 800 years ago they are new migrants over the last 50 to 100 years but have to die and suffer for what people did 800 years ago, well done Irish. Great logic,
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  1678.  @Adaman368  yep penny for the cause hey.
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  1679.  @Adaman368  nice showing your true colour how over it did you pay your penny.
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  1680.  @Adaman368  last time i looked they are not killing innocent people for something they did 800 years ago.
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  1681.  @Adaman368 so what do you want from the Brits if you don’t hate them but keep going on what they did to you. Do you want the people of today to say sorry to you for something they did not do. What is that going to change when they did nothing to you or your ancestors. Do you want money for something they did not do to you. What the hell do you want? I mean there are more Irish in the uk than in Ireland do you want them to pay out of their tax money for something they did not do to you.
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  1682.  @Adaman368  of course they do it’s nothing to do with them why should they feel sorry for something they did not do if you want to remember it in history fair enough stop blaming the government and the people of today they did nothing to you. The foreigners in the uk did nothing to you why should we suffer for something we did not do. If you want some remuneration why the hell should tax payers of today pay for you. This is just stupid. You can remember quietly no need to keep telling the Brits what they did when they did nothing to you.
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  1683.  @Adaman368  the issue i see as an outsider is only hate from the irish. I was in ireland a few years ago with some british people and the hate they got was crazy.
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  1684.  @Adaman368  well enjoy remembering the past where is it getting you?
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  1685.  @Adaman368  sure is and you can read about it you don’t need to push it on the Brits who had nothing to do with it.
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  1686. No more eu slaves to work now. Also why go to London now with work from home go to your local shops.
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  1687.  @garyfletcher1910  Holger Schmieding first labeled Germany the “Sick Man of Europe” when its economic growth fell below that of other members of the nascent Eurozone.
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  1688.  @garyfletcher1910 not noticed it getting poorer. I have had great pay rises since the uk left the eu. You do actually know prices of goods and services have gone up all over the world in California where I’m from a Mac Donald’s is now 18$ at one point in time the USA was far cheaper than the uk now it’s much more expensive. Some people might be getting poorer not the whole country. To many people seem to ask the tax payer for money all the time rather than their bosses. Wage growth in the uk is actually well above inflation.
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  1689.  @garyfletcher1910  that’s all because of uc, paying people to work 16hrs so they don’t get benefits cuts. My parents came to the uk in the 80s and they tell me that in the 80s you got the dole or worked now you get paid by the state to work. Why will some companies pay more when the nasty tories will give people on uc more money the same people who won’t work cry that foreigners like me are taking their jobs. They voted for Brexit to stop people coming in yet they still would not work so they needed to bring in more workers on visas. Like me paying 2k a pop for visas and 640 for the nhs. The nhs has always been in trouble in the uk I was watching George and Mildred the other day and even that was mentioning the nhs being poor my parents told me about it. So I watched it I love the old British comedy’s.
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  1690.  @garyfletcher1910  drugs again just lazy people who will never work generation we have them in the USA as well now, just lazy people who live off welfare that will never change no matter who are in power the woke have let them get away with it it’s always someone else’s problem usually the gov so what will change when you blame others for issues rather than looking inwards. I pay my taxes in the uk and I would much rather my money go to the disabled and the nhs than someone working 16hrs so they don’t get the benefits cut. To me they should be forcing companies to pay more not the tax payer.
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  1691.  @garyfletcher1910  crime now can we solve crime it will just get worse again the woke not wanting murders to go to jail. Not wanting any criminal to be deported on my visa it says if I commit a crime I will lose my visa yet so many people come here commit a crime and when they are about to be deported some idiot stops it. My kids if they commit a crime even though they have lived here more of their lives than anywhere else could be deported if they commit a crime and so they should. Why the hell is the counry allowing them to stay. It’s madness. There is not sentancjng for people taking stuff from super market or stores so the rest of us have to pay high prices that is not just in the uk but the USA, Japan now and many other countries. I was reading this is all to do with soras and the rich they don’t feel that people should be tried and all and attempt to move everything online. The 16hr pay thing is all to do with getting rid of jobs any paying people a universal income the easiest way to control people and get them to vote for you is to promise them more free money. Give a man a fish and his reliant on you teach a man to fish and he will feed himself.
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  1692.  @ellaj8912  that is mainly to do with the yen being so bad nothing to do with German growth once the yet Pics it it will be back down. Do research before you talk crap. Can you also tell me if this is the case and it’s all down to the eu can you tell me why France is doing so bad and as not growth since Brexit
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  1693.  @ellaj8912  France is falling further behind the uk #1 United States Of America (U.S.A) 27,974 83.06 #2 China 18,566 13.16 #3 Germany 4,730 56.04 #4 Japan 4,291 34.55 #5 India 4,112 2.85 #6 United Kingdom (U.K.) 3,592 52.43 #7 France 3,182 48.22 #8 Italy 2,280 38.93 #9 Brazil 2,272 11.03 #10 Canada 2,242 55.53
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  1694.  @ellaj8912  the uk economy has not stagnated in 2016 it was 2.7 trillion today it’s 3.5 trillion that is a growth of 77% where as Germany has only grown 30%
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  1695. German gdp in 2016 was 3.4 trillion so you can see they have hardly grown since Brexit. Remainers really should do research before talking rubbish.
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  1696.  @ellaj8912  people are better off in Germany than remainers because they work they don’t get paid to work 16hrs if you worked in the uk you would be better off too us foreigners are here on visas paying in 2k a pop and 640 for the nhs surcharge very 2 years since I have been here I have paid over 40k in Visa charges for me my wife and kids plus a fortune in tax yet all of you Brits are crying you cannot afford to heat and eat. Really time to stop talking rubbish get a degree and get a job.
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  1697.  @ellaj8912  what also makes me laugh is you say Germany has a better stand of living than the uk yet there are more gemans in the uk than Brit in Germany why is that if Germany is so great also why are Germans leaning the country in droves. Also why are 1.2 million people on visas coming to the uk yearly and only 500k going to Germany. Why also is Germany’s population growth -0.1% and the uk is 0.4% it seems so great that no one is going. Also Germany has the 27 freedom of movement counties yet no one is going.
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  1698.  @ellaj8912  the uk economy is 3.5 trillion today you idiot in 2017 it was 2.7 trillion so it’s grown far more than Germany a simple google gets you the facts.
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  1699.  @ellaj8912  imf figures 2024 Now, let’s take a look at the top 10 largest economies/ richest countries in the world in 2024, sourced from IMF data (as of February 07, 2024): Rank & Country GDP (USD billion) GDP Per Capita (USD thousand) #1 United States Of America (U.S.A) 27,974 83.06 #2 China 18,566 13.16 #3 Germany 4,730 56.04 #4 Japan 4,291 34.55 #5 India 4,112 2.85 #6 United Kingdom (U.K.) 3,592 52.43 #7 France 3,182 48.22 #8 Italy 2,280 38.93 #9 Brazil 2,272 11.03 #10 Canada 2,242
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  1700. Just like labour from 1997 to 2008 let everyone in with no control.
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  1701. Of course not as the morons still pay for them. 15% of your salary for making you strike of course they want people to get more money.
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  1702. Funny not one left why is that is it because of the in work bens and free money they can get .
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  1703.  @kevinu.k.7042  then why do you suggest it was an American problem
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  1704.  @kevinu.k.7042  it was also London and the rates that allowed the banks to do it. With labour giving the libor rate to the banks allowed them to set their own rate, this was fraud and all done by London. The American government did not understand uk bankruptcy law and allowed Lehman brothers to go under. Us law allows to trade while creditors are called in however as more money goes through London than any other banking sector in the world lehmans has all its money sitting in the rbs trading bank. This forced the uk gov to seize all assets of Lehman uk people were marched out the door as money was frozen. This I turn called the global crash as all money dried up.
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  1705.  @kevinu.k.7042  good documentary about it on here the rise and full of rbs and the 2007/ 2008 crash. I was working for aig in hk at the time then move to rbs as rbs was the only bank still growing at the time of the crash. Still remember the massive party Fred put on in Edinburgh with the red arrows.
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  1706. Everyone needs to cancel their tv licences until the left are taken out of the bbc. The bbc used to be great I even watched it in the USA as it was impartial. Now it’s just left wing and biased. This is killing the country you need both sides of the story.
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  1707. Then the eu must be a bigger joke uk grew 0.6% the eu only 0.3 lol
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  1708.  @treyquattro  tony b-lair in the Pandora and Panama papers would suggest otherwise. The funny thing is you lot go on about Ppe. Yet your forget the 1.2 trillion labour gave to bankers like me. I would say the 1.2 trillion proves labour are far more corrupt. Also tony Blair in the Panama papers over his sales of all the London hospitals to build expensive homes. Queen Mary Roehampton, horten hospital Epsom. St ebbas hospital Ewell Putney hospital, Richmond hospital to name but a few all rich homes now and all that money in Blair’s pocket.
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  1709.  @treyquattro  because I’m waiting for people like you to vote labour in again so I can get the rest of the gold you do know the banking system is not far from collapse again and the only government that would bail them out would be labour.
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  1710.  @treyquattro  the main issue is not the bankers but the people. The people always want to live beyond their means. In the 50s to the 90s they did now everyone wants cheap credit to buy materialist items that have no use. In the 50s to the 80s the avg person has between 500 and 20k of savings now the avg person is 20 to 50k in debt. They blame the bankers but really if they did not take out the debt in the first place they would be ok. Why do they take out the debt. Why do they live beyond their means simple because they expect the government and the tax payer to bail them out in order to do that they have to bailout the bank. This leads to even more cheap money. The fed or the boe drop the rate of what the boe or the fed need to hold of the banks money then the bank prints more this causes inflation yet the people still want more cheap crap. They refuse to make it at home so it moved to the eu and china now these counties are levelling up the cost of everything is rising. You blame the government again for it and the bankers without looking at yourself. There is a great documentary on money and capitalism maybe watch it the uk people did a great thing to try to stop this with brexit the issue is the elite don’t want it. If you stop the materialism and stop spending on credit you will break the system. Issue is it takes the people to do that.
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  1711.  @treyquattro  austerity is there because 55% of Brits are taking out more than you pay in. The Trouble with Brits is you don’t want to work or you work 16hrs to get around the benefits cap. You want the tax payer to give you the money. Benefits should only be for the people who need it the people out of work the people who are disabled and pensioners not people who work. Time to stop blaming the gov and the bankers blaim yourself in the 50s to the 90s people worked you could only get benefits if you were out of work or disabled the issue is people want a nanny state you want the government to give you free money. The issue with this is you run out of other peoples money and things get cut.
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  1712.  @treyquattro  left wing trap I take it your on benefits probably never worked a day in your left in so much debt and blame everyone else for it. Firstly stop borrowing money live within your means and stop relying on the government for your payments. Take personal responsibility please.
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  1713.  @treyquattro  people like you are the problem with the uk. All you want is more benefits, there is a windfall tax, ir35 is now in taxing more the uk has some of the highest rates of tax now that companies are leaving all to pay for lazy people like you. Migration to the uk is at a all time high as lazy Brits don’t want to work you lot blame brexit but it’s your lazy people who don’t work.
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  1714.  @treyquattro  sure have especially in the uk hence why you need so many migrants here. Also why you need fom as not one of you is smart enough to move without fom.
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  1715.  @mitch697  and yet so many of your country want to be in the eu. How do you stop these levels while in the eu. You had more than 7 million people come in from the eu on only a few years.
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  1716. They give them their drugs to sell
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  1717.  @deanlowdon8381  if you want to pay more tax visit HMRC there is a voluntary tax payment if you really want to Pay more go there. I bet you 100 pound you won’t using the rich is an excuse they pay far more than you ever will.
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  1718.  @deanlowdon8381  it would prove you want to pay more tax and would help with things like the nhs. People like you are all talk.
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  1719.  @deanlowdon8381  if everyone did it it would. That’s the issue Brits want a decent healthcare but they really don’t want to pay for it and you prove that you talk a good talk. But not one of you wants to pay.
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  1720.  @deanlowdon8381  isn’t it funny how people always go on about Amazon yet still use them hey. Again shows how Brits are hypocrites. Use the company that pays no tax while asking the government to tax them more. Have you heard of the high street shops that pay tax and employ workers that pay tax too. Maybe time to boycott Amazon.
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  1721.  @deanlowdon8381  every one needs to, people who complain about companies like Amazon and use them should not complain. I would rather go without that use Amazon. I pay my tax in the uk and I pay for visas and the nhs surcharge. While I’m in the uk I will buy locally. What I see from Brits though is especially the ones who are not paye will do anything to avoid paying tax but will still complain about the nhs being underfunded and the rail ways. This to me is crazy the other thing I see is the other side, the people who pay little to no tax getting everything free and still complaining then blaming everything on the rich. When the rich already pay 50% of all tax paid in the uk. It really is time for the avg person to pick up here and pay in. Despite the reduction in the additional rate from 50% to 45% in April 2013, the share of total Income Tax liabilities accounted for by the top 1% of taxpayers by income rose from 25.1% (£39bn of £157bn total) in 2012-13 to 28.3% (£71bn of £251bn total) in 2022-23.
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  1722.  @deanlowdon8381  people really need to understand that the nhs does not come for free as an American living in the uk I envy the nhs and really don’t want you to lose it but you will at this rate as it’s always someone else fault in the uk or the gov at the time.
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  1723.  @deanlowdon8381  that few pounds from each person amounts to billions of tax. If everyone thought like you.
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  1724.  @deanlowdon8381  have a think about that when you next buy from a big company that does not pay tax.
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  1725. Yet it’s the Brits that dump the rubbish everywhere and put oil and wet wipes down the toilets. Then blame the nasty tories.
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  1726. Isn’t it funny now all the kids have broken up they call off the strikes lol. Maybe they will be back on in September when the kids go back. Seems teachers hate to teach since covid.
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  1727.  @alexwilliamson1486  I have to it seems the teachers don’t. I had to teach them during covid and all the time the teachers don’t go to work. Plus I’m paying 45% of my salary in tax so teachers cannot be bothered to teach. If a teacher does not want to teach give up the job. Last I looked they have degrees maybe do a job that they want rather than one that is not going to help the next generation get jobs. Do teachers just want the next generation to be thick and unemployed.
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  1728. Why would he be supports child rape and grooming gangs
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  1729. You remoaners keep wanting globalists views not wanting the uk to grow anything wanting everything imported and you want low wages for eu people. Really time for you to stop your greed for everything cheap and actually invest in the uk. Stop living on debt and live within your means. If you cannot afford something don’t buy it.
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  1730. Wonder how many people here pay 2k a year in tax let alone 5 million.
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  1731.  @jeckjeck3119  so you mean they will never be put in then lol
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  1732.  @jeckjeck3119  as I said it will never happen the eu is all talk and so are remainers. The migrants will keep coming as they know they can get everything in the eu for free. It’s the same in the USA etc. everywhere has a migrant issue as we give them everything. Also to many left wing idiots fighting for them to stay. What makes me laugh is remainers keep telling me how great the eu is yet all these migrants are escaping it for the uk.
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  1733.  @firmbutton6485  union protection I was in a union for years did not stop me being laid off in my last job waste of money the subscribtion was got very little in pay outs for all that I paid in.
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  1734. 1 pound in Sainsbury’s these people lie. 150 pound for food is more than i spend for a family of 4 and I work. These people are scammers
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  1735.  @mandyellis876  you can eat meat today i bought chicken legs at Sainsbury’s 1.99 for 2kg it’s not expensive
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  1736. Really with mps like this who can vote labour
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  1737. Hero
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  1738. Yet I bet you still want more migration.
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  1739. Biggest issue in the uk is that too many are lazy and just rely on benefits if they don’t get it they cry nasty tories. They won’t get off their butts and work.
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  1740. Labour for the rich not the poor.
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  1741. Well it would seem most eu countries have higher inflation than the uk. Ireland in the eu has higher inflation than the uk seems being in the eu does not stop high inflation Serbia 8 8.5 % Hungary 7.9 9.9 % Iceland 7.7 8 % Russia 7.5 6.7 % Czech Republic 7.3 8.5 % Romania 6.72 8.07 % Poland 6.6 6.6 % Slovakia 6.26 7.07 % Sweden 5.8 6.5 % Moldova 5.5 6.3 % Belarus 5.4 3.53 % Bulgaria 5.4 5.8 % Austria 5.3 5.4 % Ukraine 5.1 5.3 % Slovenia 4.9 6.9 % Montenegro 4.8 6.1 % Norway 4.8 4 % Croatia 4.7 5.8 % Estonia 4 4.9 % Albania 3.9 3.8 % Ireland 3.9 5.1 % Malta 3.9 4.2 % United Kingdom 3.9 4.6 % Faroe Islands 3.7 4.4 % European Union 3.6 4.9 % France 3.5 4 % Finland 3.3 4.9 % Germany 3.2 3.8 % Spain 3.2 3.5 % Macedonia 3.1 3.5 % Greece 3 3.4 % Luxembourg 3 3.16 % Kosovo 2.9 3.3 % Euro Area 2.4 2.9 % Bosnia and Herzegovina 2.13 4.09 % Lithuania 2 2.8 % Cyprus 1.71 3.47 % Netherlands 1.6 -0.4 % Portugal 1.54 2.12 % Liechtenstein 1.4 1.7 % Switzerland 1.4 1.7 % Latvia 1 2.1 % Belgium 0.76 0.36 % Italy 0.67 1.69 % Denmark 0.6 0.1 %
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  1742. France is not safe lol
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  1743. Because they know labour will bail them out.
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  1744.  @daftdigital  they were in power the last time the banks collapsed and never put any restrictions in on what they did with the money now did they. Labour will again be in soon to sell the rest of the gold to give to us cannot see the tories helping us out.
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  1745.  @danh9922 funny everyone I know in the USA are moving to the uk
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  1746. Issue is Brits still won’t work so even if you vote them out to keep you all In benefits they will need workers. You always want more free money you need the migrants for this.
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  1747. We already had 3 and they were lost each time lol
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  1748. I thought there were only homeless people in the uk and the USA according to remoaners. No other country in the world is affected by homeless according to them or poor.
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  1749. they need to get rid of the barnet system asap the english need to stop paying for wales, Scotland and ni all money should be spent and earned in each region. They should do like they do in Japan. Really why should people in London pay for people in glasgow this needs to stop asap.
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  1750. It’s down to the country but I cannot see why kids born to two nationals should be denied. As they are born to both countries. Will make it so hard for them to choose. It’s very different to migrating to a country and then choosing their nationality.
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  1751. labour are in now how are you doing?
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  1752. now this is one of the reason for the uk being out of the eu, really all eu people should have their benefits stopped asap.
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  1753. Well you all voted In labour you deserve the charge
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  1754. They are too thick to be able to move, people have been moving around far before brexit. I knew Brits in Singapore, the USA, oz and nz. Smart Brits can move. This thick pro eu morons need fom because they have no qualifications to move.
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  1755. That’s funny as food inflation is higher in Germany than the uk.
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  1756. Looks like Germany the sick man of Europe not the uk.
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  1757. I thought remainers kept telling us that countries could control their borders before brexit. Really do why can’t Spain?
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  1758. That’s funny all of the eu is no where near the us economy seems brexit is affecting the eu as well
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  1759. seems the eu doing so well compared to the usa too lol
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  1760.  @dvidclapperton  yep and that is why they are nothing like the USA which every remainer is comparing them too.
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  1761.  @dvidclapperton also you can say the same for all the eu countries not one of them are anywhere near the USA for growth so I would really not be gloating at the uk.
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  1762.  @dvidclapperton If you look at Greece alone it has not even recovered to its pre 2007 levels all eu countries are so in trouble not one can even pay its 2% for nato. Really I would not gloat if I was in a eu country right now with their growth. Look at trading economics most are doing far worse than the uk right now.
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  1763.  @dvidclapperton  are you on drugs
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  1764.  @dvidclapperton  the uk gdp is higher than it was in 2007 not lower 3.093 trillion USD in 2007 uk gdp today #6 United Kingdom (U.K.) 3,592 so no it’s not worse than it was in 2007
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  1765.  @dvidclapperton  can you show me also where the uk has has negative growth for the last 5 quarters please as trading economics shows the uk as negative growth for one quarter where as many of the eu counties continue to have negative growth as such a lot of the eu counties are in recession the uk is not nited Kingdom -0.1 0 % Luxembourg -0.14 -0.2 % Slovenia -0.2 1 % Germany -0.3 0 % Lithuania -0.3 0 % Netherlands -0.3 -0.4 % Norway -0.5 -0.5 % Denmark -0.7 -0.7 % Ireland -0.7 -1.9 % Moldova -0.8 -0.6 % Finland -0.9 0.3 % Estonia -1.3 -0.6 % Iceland -3.8 1.6
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  1766.  @dvidclapperton  I really can see why all you labour voters are on benefits and why you need us overseas workers here really who the hell would hire you.
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  1767.  @dvidclapperton  can you send me the sources to back up all this you keep telling me the uk has shrunk for the last 14 years please send me the sources for this please I have already shown you the gdp increase if it’s shrunk to below 2007 levels can you prove this please and if this was the case France would of over taken the uk yet it’s still behind the uk
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  1768.  @dvidclapperton  largest economies 2024 1 United States Of America (U.S.A) 27,974 83.06 #2 China 18,566 13.16 #3 Germany 4,730 56.04 #4 Japan 4,291 34.55 #5 India 4,112 2.85 #6 United Kingdom (U.K.) 3,592 52.43 #7 France 3,182 48.22 #8 Italy 2,280 38.93 #9 Brazil 2,272 11.03 #10 Canada 2,242 55.53
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  1769.  @dvidclapperton this is a country not growing Greece gdp 2007 318.9 billion USD (2007) Greece gdp today 214.9 billion USD it would seem really the eu does nothing for ones economy
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  1770. The same people want to be in the eu with mass migration cannot make it up.
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  1771. I’m being paid a good wage in the uk. The issue with most people in the uk they would rather get minimum wage and the government to top them up than look for a decent job. They complain to the government to top them up more rather than look for a decent job or ask their company to top them up.
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  1772.  @prophetsnake  why would they want Brits they know Brits what the government to top them up.
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  1773.  @proletvladimirova828  why have you not left then. Isn’t it funny people keep saying they want to leave yet not one has gone. I live here and make the best of it. The grass is always greener on the other side
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  1774.  @DrOktobermensch  that is wrong is has one of the highest wage growth it had the lowest when the uk was in the eu
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  1775. @ got to love the work shy calling out people as a bot get a job oh wait you are too thick you have to be on benefits
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  1776. @ the uk does not have the highest tax rate in the world what are you taking about
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  1777. @ most eu countries have higher tax rates than the uk the uk from April will also have a far higher minimum wage than all the eu countries what are you on .
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  1778. Less than 00.1% own everything in the 3rd world live
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  1779.  @rjkmusicmedia  which is wrong people should not be allowed to move only to claim the benefits of that country.
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  1780.  @lfcgero35  really you blame the country for lazy scumbags benefits are there to protect people not to be abused. Even today I was reading about a lazy eu scum bag wanting child bens just because they live here and the government turning them down and still they blame the government if all they want is benefits then they need to go back to their country if they have not paid in for 5 years they should get nothing just like all other foreigners. People should not move just to claim.
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  1781. Why is the whole of the eu doing so much worse that the us economy not one eu economy is a match for the USA why are you only focusing on the uk. Can you please tell me why every big eu economy other than France is doing far worse than the uk. United States 2.4 2 Brazil 1.9 -0.2 India 1.9 1 Mexico 0.9 1 Canada 0.8 0 China 0.8 2.2 Japan 0.7 0.1 Argentina 0.68 -1.68 South Korea 0.6 0.3 France 0.5 0.1 South Africa 0.4 -1.1 Spain 0.4 0.5 Euro Area 0.3 0 Singapore 0.3 -0.4 Switzerland 0.3 0 Turkey 0.3 0.9 Australia 0.2 0.6 United Kingdom 0.1 0.1 Germany 0 -0.1 Saudi Arabia -0.1 -1.4 Italy -0.3 0.6 Netherlands -0.3 0.9 Indonesia -0.92 0.36
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  1782. Bad is your lazy and rely on the tax payer for everything. The rest of us are ok. The issue in the uk people have become far to lazy.
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  1783. Can you tell me why the nhs was not funded why the uk was in the eu then if it could be funded.
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  1784.  @easy1355  it was not funded under labour now too hey hence why they closed so many hospitals and sold the rest to pfi. 3 of my local hospitals are now private homes due to labour so it’s not just conservatives. If you don’t believes me look at queen Mary’s Roehampton. St ebbas and Horton all closed by labour. Issue with labour voters though you forget what happened when labour were in power
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  1785. Remainers hate your local farmers they only want eu products they want your farm to stay empty and get eu grants to be empty.
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  1786. The uk already said it will not take them back. France won’t take them back so they uk won’t.
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  1787. Maybe time for you to go to Poland then
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  1788.  @marleneMS  that to me is good the way it should be. You should only move country if you have the skills that county needs the same as it’s impossible for polish to move to the uk. Just a shame the 1 million poles in the uk won’t move back.
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  1789.  @marleneMS  if you have nothing to offer a country other than claiming benefits why should you be able to move. All these Brits have nothing to offer it’s why they cry daily they are stuck in the uk. They had 6 years in that time they could have got a degree and a masters and the skills to move yet they cry. They deserve to be locked in prison.
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  1790.  @clarevoyant6322  still far more than the Brits in Poland and if Poland is so great why are they still in the uk. Isn’t it funny 50k you say the uk was in the eu for 6 years why did all these Brits not become richer in a move to Poland. Got to love that all these poles are still in the uk and not moving back to Poland hey considering it’s richer than the uk now as you people say.
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  1791.  @clarevoyant6322  I can really see why you people needed fom.
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  1792.  @andrew30m  I think your find most came when Labour opened the flood gates
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  1793.  @andrew30m  to me if Poland is richer than the uk and you can get much better jobs than minimum wage in the uk you leave. It just goes to show Poland is not richer than the uk.
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  1794.  @andrew30m  I don’t think so most work on minimum wage jobs if the uk is so bad they should leave along with the other 7 million eu people. If they all left the uk would have ample housing and more nhs space. It’s funny how Brits suggest the eu hates the uk and all the eu people have left yet they are all still here.
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  1795.  @andrew30m  I think you are right not many people need the Brits these days hence why not one of you can move country since you lost your fom.
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  1796.  @cobeer1768  I guess your a fan of letting pedos out on the street
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  1797. I have been married to my Japanese wife now for 15 years and together for 20 years. You definitely can find love in Japan. But Japanese like western people are the same looks should not be a thing personality is all that counts. Go for a person you can talk to not just because they are Japanese or western. Looks is lust.
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  1798.  @ClactonCuun funny Ireland Luxembourg and the Netherlands are all tax havens
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  1799. Last time I looked a doll cannot call someone a name or beat them for the color of their skin so how can they be racist. People are racist not dolls.
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  1800. So crazy to think about the education young people get these days. Too busy talking about 50 genders than getting an education.
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  1801. With videos like this I really can see why remainers need fom to move country. Really get out there not one of you work in finance clearly. All probably on benefits crying how your lost your fom.
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  1802. The issue with the uk is few people work long hours most people work 16hrs and are on benefits being paid the same as the people on 40 to 50hrs most people are understanding this now and leaving work. They Blame it on people leaving work due to covid but in reality it’s the benefits system.
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  1803. Haha France prepares to surrender again
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  1804. Yet the uk grew by 0.6% the eu only 0.3% the uk out performing the eu.
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  1805. Well this election clearly shows rejoin eu are wrong lol rejoin eu no seats the snp lost most of their seats lol
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  1806. That will be the remainers lol they are too thick to leave with out their fom.
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  1807. no it is not its going through recession as it did every 10 years in the eu.
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  1808.  @ryanwhite.  really london is still no2 in the world no eu country or city is even in the top 10 where are you getting this from United States New York City 763 Steady Increase 3 2 United Kingdom London 744 Steady Increase 13 3 Singapore Singapore 742 Steady Increase 19 4 Hong Kong Hong Kong 741 Steady Increase 19 5 United States San Francisco 735 Steady Increase 14 6 United States Los Angeles 734 Steady Increase 15 7 China Shanghai 733 Steady Increase 16 8 United States Washington, D.C. 732 Increase 3 Increase 19 9 United States Chicago 731 Decrease 1 Increase 15 10 Switzerland Geneva 730 Increase 13 Increase 29 11 South Korea Seoul 729 Decrease 1 Increase 15 12 China Shenzhen 728 Steady Increase 16 13 China Beijing 727 Steady Increase 16 14 Germany Frankfurt 726 Increase 3 Increase 19 15 France Paris 725 Decrease 1 Increase 15 16 Luxembourg Luxembourg 724 Increase 3 Increase 19 17 United States Boston 723 Decrease 8 Increase 8 18 Switzerland Zürich 722 Increase 2 Increase 18 19 Netherlands Amsterdam 721 Decrease 3 Increase 13 20 Japan Tokyo 720 Increase 1 Increase 17
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  1809. Both of them were in the eu. And seems people are blaming brexit lol
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  1810. The issue is the uk needs us we are paying 2k every 2.5 years for visas and 640 for the nhs surcharge plus tax and ni while the Brits don’t work who will pay for these lazy good for nothing if they don’t have us. If they get rid of us they will have their benefits cut and cry more that the nasty tories are not paying them more. Catch 22 for the tories.
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  1811. they should of thought to live within their means people need to understand rates go up as well as down.
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  1812.  @Craig121000  so rates never went up or down when the uk was in the eu then
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  1813.  @Craig121000  please tell me did rates not go up or down when the uk was in the eu
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  1814.  @deviousdescent9010  shame the uk did not do it for eu nationals on benefits. Really time to send them all back.
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  1815.  @noelryan6341  no the uk does not need the eu and you can see that by the eus gdp growth of -0.1 the uks growth is +0.1 the eu is doing far worse than the uk. Really people need to wake up. Also Dover has been like this year on year since 1997 you do know we have had the internet for along time you can Google it. Last time I looked the uk was in the eu then up until 2016. People need to stop making up everything is brexit.
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  1816.  @Anonymos321  yet again more eu people move to the uk than the other way around if it’s so great in the eu why do you all come to the uk? Less than 2 million Brits moved to the eu yet over 7 million eu people moved to the uk and very few have left if it was so great why are they not flooding back to the eu my friend. Maybe time for the uk gov to cut off their housing bens and send them all packing.
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  1817.  @noelryan6341  really how. It’s you remoaners that seem to want to get in it yet you are too thick to leave the uk for it without fom. Lol
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  1818.  @Neil070  haha looks to me like Germany is more affected by brexit than then uk. Lol anyway thick remainer why are you still in the uk if it’s doing so bad.
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  1819.  @ab-ym3bf  that’s funny I’m undereducated yet I can move around and have a decent job and not poor like you remainers if you are all so smart why are you stuck in the uk. Maybe really it’s time to look at your own education before coming after others. As it seems you lot are the poor.
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  1820.  @derin111  hardly the same lol Germany is far worse than the uk again. Germany growth is -0.4% Looks like the cancer is affecting France and Germany far worse than the uk. Lol it’s only remainers that are poor in the uk.
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  1821.  @teddyboysdontknit810  if all these eu people cared for the uk then they would be willing to pay for visas and the nhs surcharge and not take any benefits yet it seems they are not willing to do that.
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  1822.  @teddyboysdontknit810  remainers like to lie about figures The EU covers over 4 million km² and has 447.7 million inhabitants.
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  1823.  @Muzakman37  come back to me when greeces economy reaches the same as it was In 2009
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  1824.  @Muzakman37  you said that greece is growing faster than the uk yet its still not even as rich as it was in 2009. So not it is not growing faster than the uk now is it. again come back to me when you surpass your 2009 levels. which you will never do again.
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  1825.  @Muzakman37  because you know greece is a tiny back water than will never grow anywhere near the uk. Glad the UK is out of the eu and not sending you free loaders anymore money.
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  1826. Glad no more uk money is going to the eu
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  1827. have to thank the labour gov for selling the gold and dropping rates to almost nothing and then giving 1.2 trillion to us bankers, I cant wait for them to get in again what to know what else they will give to us.
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  1828. His a union leader in a 2k suit, of course he wants the gov to give him more so he can get more money from the poor to pay for more suits.
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  1829.  @jamesharrison2763  labour gave me nothing either, also it was Labour who sold most of the nhs to pfi. There won’t be a pension when I retire so I am investing in my work placed pension. So really not sure it matters to much who is in power. Tax goes now mainly to the people on low incomes and people like me get nothing back so I’m glad to get something back I’m not kidding myself I know tax will go up it will always be used to pay for the low income people topping up companies and allowing them to pay less. As why pay more when it’s the nasty tories who top you up.
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  1830. simple answer get a job 750k people can come here on 2k a pop visas and the nhs surcharge and can work and afford it why cant you
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  1831.  @w1z4rd9  really name me one country other than Germany that is richer than the uk please. Please name me one richer than the USA please and one richer than japan. The eu is 3rd world compared to these countries. It’s such Bs that it seems all the eu people escape the eu for counties like America, Japan and the uk. Can’t make it up. Yet very few Americans Japanese and Brits moved to the eu.
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  1832.  @ahsanurr4219  I’m loving it been here 6 years the uk has so much for a small county. I bet the uk is glad you are not here. The uk does not need people like you.
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  1833. Need to remove any benefits from eu people who have not been here more than 5 years. How can we be paying housing Benefits and child benefits to kids who don’t live in the uk.
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  1834. I guess the remainers won’t be crying that the eu is looking at this. lol seems the eu are gammons now. lol
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  1835. We’re you born then. Really you are in the eu time to forget about the uk. Why do you want the uk if they messed so much up for Ireland maybe time to look to the eu and forget the uk.
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  1836.  @Dreyno not sure you can blame the people of today that is the issue you were not even alive in the famine nor were the Brits today so how can you blame them.
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  1837.  @Dreyno  why is it there responsibility no one is alive from back then. Were you alive were your family alive no. Stop living in the past. The uk is out of the eu now move on.
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  1838.  @Dreyno to me the uk should end the cta as an American, really Ireland need to live on their own in the eu. The uk needs to go on its own now too the uk needs to move on from its imperialist past and the only way to do that is to get rid of the cta ni needs to go back to Ireland or become independent either or people of today cannot keep being blamed for something that happened over 100 years ago there are very views to no one alive back then it’s time to move on.
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  1839.  @Dreyno  as an American the USA will not crush the uk they are sick and tired of the eu and Ireland. Very few people support the Irish anymore you are living in the 80s this is the 2020s we are done supporting terrorists.
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  1840.  @Dreyno  what should they do they did nothing to you the government of today did nothing to do. It would be a empty sorry
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  1841.  @Dreyno  the uk now has more migrants in it than people of these descendants why should migrants say sorry to you.
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  1842.  @Dreyno  I am saying the uk should give up ni
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  1843.  @Dreyno  to me Ireland claims to want to be free of the uk but you want the cta and the raf flying over your airspace. You either don’t want the uk or you want them. You cannot have it both ways.
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  1844.  @Dreyno  Ireland also imports more from the uk than the uk imports from Ireland only 5.2% it imports from Ireland and 6.3% it exports to Ireland. So it’s tiny now also there is no frictionless trade with the uk is out of the eu. So the cta does nothing for trade only the freedom of movement of people. Really to me only smart people should be able to move or skills that country needs on the visa requirements. Fom has only brought trouble to the uk.
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  1845. "I agree with you on that. The UK cannot feed itself; it's a massive country compared to Ireland. There are more Irish in the UK than in Ireland. The issue is that you think the UK needs Ireland. Imports from Ireland have been decreasing year on year since Brexit. Imports in 2015 from Ireland were 6.5%; now they are only around 3.5%. There is a much bigger world out there than Ireland and the EU. The UK is starting to look elsewhere. To me, I would rather the UK, for green purposes, imports more locally or grows more at home. But if it becomes harder to trade and things are cheaper to buy from outside of Ireland and the EU, it's a no-brainer that the UK looks to go elsewhere. source for trade imports to the uk UKGOV trade numbers.
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  1846.  @DAVIDSHEILS-fs1og  that tax haven in the eu lol remainers keep telling me how the eu is stopping tax havens and why the uk voted for brexit. Missing out Ireland lol
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  1847. No it shows you how thick and greedy people are to borrow to the top of their means. If you never thought rates would go back up then you are the fool.
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  1848. The issue is the uk needs mass migration to pay for all the people on benefits the uk voted out of the eu as they could not get work yet people never went to work. So now the uk needs migrants to pay in tax and ni and the visa and nhs charges to pay for benefits and the nhs.
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  1849. Tell me what gdp growth is in France, Ireland and Germany please and the uk. I wait
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  1850. I’ll tell you Ireland -1.3%, France -0.1%, German -0.2% uk +0.1% so yes the uk is doing better.
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  1851. Got to laugh at the Irish thinks a negative number is larger than a positive number
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  1852. People need to stop worrying about the economy growing and look to live within their means. The uk only grew like the USA by people borrowing more than they could afford it was all debt. Now rates are high they cannot borrow for the rubbish they did not need. 50% of people in the uk could not handle a 400 pound emergency if they lose their jobs tomorrow they will be in the crap.
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  1853. The uk will never rejoin the eu the uk is in too much debt for one, the uk also does not meet any Copenhagen protocols. The uk will need to follow all eu rules, it will get nothing back and will have to contribute more as its economy is now even bigger than France. So why would it join again.
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  1854. Hopefully he will end up pennyless it’s what happens when you turn against half of the people in your biggest market.
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  1855. The problem with democracy is we allow the thick people to vote. They think they are smart but they don’t actually understand how to vote.
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  1856.  @alienus9092 the French would surrender before the war starts.
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  1857.  @alienus9092  think your find it’s more than once.
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  1858.  @WookiRahh  you have had 5 elections in 12 years you had ample opportunity to vote them out. Stop this nonsense, if you don’t vote you get no voice.
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  1859.  @morganangel340  I can’t vote I just want the gold
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  1860.  @maxdc988  need to think about it in the rest of the world not the uk. Good job people like me can leave once we have our money your all stuck here.
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  1861.  @colinsmith1288  yet they would rather stay on benefits than work hey as I have said I work in an advanced industry the average pay in my industry is 80k yet not hired one Brit in the 6 years I have been working in the uk. Why is that because your all lazy and complain all the time say your worse off on bens yet won’t work.
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  1862.  @colinsmith1288  that’s not true either the issue is the uni grads in the uk do degrees that cannot be used they choose Mickey Mouse degrees that will not give them jobs.
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  1863.  @colinsmith1288  the issue with the uk is you gave generations on benefits, generations that blame everyone else rather than themselves. You don’t have this in asia because there are no benefit systems like here you work or you get nothing people here are too used to handouts and blaming the rich for their issues.
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  1864.  @colinsmith1288  yep it was but it was only in 2000 you started paying people out of tax payers money to work. The benefits system should be there for the disabled, pensions and people who lose work through no fault of their own just like every other country in the world not for people to choose to work 16hrs so they get more money than working.
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  1865.  @daiu48  don’t move to one of these areas then if you don’t want to live in an elitist area, that works both ways for tories and labour. Why move to a Tory area if you don’t want to vote Tory.
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  1866.  @colinsmith1288  so they move for better schools then vote in labour to get worse schools can’t make it up.
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  1867.  @pablofernandez3284 it seems that way with all the eu people commenting on here. Not sure any eu country is doing great right now if I were you I would focus on your own countries not the uk.
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  1868.  @omi685 he says on his phone or computer from china can’t make it up
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  1869.  @omi685 what bit of tech comes from the eu I’m waiting?
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  1870.  @kityhawk2000 quite how are all the farmers strikes going lol
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  1871.  @rufanuf1 well I guess the uk will get beef and chicken not that salmonella chicken and horse meat of the eu lol
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  1872.  @omi685 and most of the eu did can you show me this growth please lol
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  1873.  @rufanuf1  yep but you sell it as horse meat not beef it seems only eu companies try to pass horse meat off as beef hey. Great standards
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  1874. so councils are going bankrupt yet they pay themselves huge amounts.
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  1875. So not yourself for looking at other opportunities. That is the issue with remainers cannot look outside of the eu. Big wide world out there you know.
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  1876.  @reinapiratayquepaha  im not the one doing so badly now am I. Maybe time to look at why your doing so bad and all these remainers.
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  1877. Time to give them 35% but take it away from the lazy who only work 16 hrs. Why should hard working people pay more tax to pay for it all.
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  1878.  @royboy565  hence why I have said give them 35%
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  1879.  @royboy565  I said take it away from the lazy brits who work 16hrs to get max benefits
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  1880. Poor racist why don’t you want to trade with brown countries
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  1881. no that is the usa, and people need to understand not to keep a remote key next to their cars. also why is that could it be all the poles in the uk that came while the uk was in the eu.
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  1882. Really far to many lazy people in the uk time to scrap these benefits
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  1883. Only idiot remainers can’t see it
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  1884.  @neodym5809  the eu is dying on its butt
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  1885.  @diogorodrigues747  no it has not
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  1886.  @diogorodrigues747  come back to me when France over takes the uk you do know that France’s gdp was bigger than the uk in 2007 to 2014 while the uk was in the eu now it’s far smaller than the uk. You do know Greece in the eu has a smaller gdp that it did in 2007. Most countries of the eu have not grown gdp wise since 2007 and have far smaller gdps than back then. The eu is doing terrible.
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  1887.  @diogorodrigues747  so it seems the eu not helping them hey
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  1888.  @diogorodrigues747  I’m talking about their economy even with the bailouts their economy is still far worse than it was in 2007 it’s not growing. The eu does well at keeping economies down.
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  1889.  @diogorodrigues747  it’s not only Greece 90% of eu counties gdp are low than they were in 2007
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  1890.  @diogorodrigues747  that is bull if I was you I would focus on the eu not the uk. The eu counties are not doing great eu growth is nothing.
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  1891.  @diogorodrigues747  nope take a look at trading economics and then tell me the eu is growing
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  1892.  @diogorodrigues747  it’s the issue with eu people and remainers of the uk you think because a few Eastern European countries are keeping the eu up it’s growing most of the eu is sinking and these Eastern European counties have mass inflation.
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  1893. Looks like brexit is hitting Germany more than the uk
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  1894. So protesting smashing things up costing the tax payer more money is really going to help stop the cost of living going up. Really Brits have become the thickest people on the planet.
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  1895. Think they need food shortages in the uk damn people need to eat less. Getting like the USA
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  1896. need to do a degree in Computing, Law or medical if you want to make money, doing anything else is stupid.
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  1897. Can see all the thick remainers crying over this because they lost their fom and too thick to move on visas. Uk doing better than the eu at almost everything now Brexit happened. 0.6% growth eu 0.2%, uk inflation 2% eu inflation 2.7% wage growth uk 6% eu -1.7% unemployment 4.4% eu 8% seems that fom and no jobs for them lol. Rates 5.25-% eu 3.25% meaning wages worth less and less in the eu than the uk. lol remainers cry about this as all in minimum wage jobs and uneducated cannot get decent jobs. So they cry about the foreign workers who have to earn 34k coming in on 2k visas and 1k nhs surcharge.
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  1898. funny house prices just went up again
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  1899. It does not rely on that just greedy Brits take out loans to pay for junk they don’t need if all Brits stopped this and lived within their means then it would be far richer. Even people on the dole get credit cards and loans for designer labels and holidays in the uk.
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  1900. The lazy need to work keep printing money to pay for them is causing this.
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  1901.  @joancooley1387  do you actually understand what causes inflation
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  1902.  @joancooley1387  all the people working 16hrs to get around the cut to their bens. These people need to work. The only people who should be on bens are the disabled and people who lost their jobs through no fault of their own and are looking for work. All these people working a few hours so they can get around the benefits cap are costing the real disabled and people who need it and are taking away money from the nhs. These same people call the working people mugs for working. I know so many of these people.
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  1903.  @joancooley1387  welfare now is 190billion pounds costing the most in the history of benefits. Only 20 billion different to want us spent on the nhs. This is stupid. Why are businesses going to pay people more when they know the government and tax payer is paying to top people up.
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  1904.  @joancooley1387  but know use arguing with people like you I’m sure you think more people should be working less and the tax payer should be paying them more hey.
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  1905.  @joancooley1387  hard working people working 16hrs if that is hard work that makes me laugh I take it your one of the lazy on 16hrs hey. Thinking you work hard maybe try working 50hrs a week but why do that when the tax payer tops you up your lazy plum.
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  1906. same in japan, the uk needs to implement this here, london should not be paying for the rest of the country, wales and scotland should be setting their own taxation and the North too. there should only be local parliaments, for each region, no Scottish or welsh mps should sit in westminster.
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  1907.  @paca3107  compared to other counties and big cities polish food is poor.
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  1908. @ the food is not nice, try Japanese food in Poland it’s not nice, try Korean food in Poland it’s not nice, polish food is not great. Big cities like, Tokyo, London, nyc, Paris have much better food. It’s why foreigners don’t really go to live in places like Poland.
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  1909. 17.5 million Brits who voted to remain in the eu. The only country you can go to is Ireland. On your bike.
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  1910. @ oh childish yet how many Brits have called out Putin and Russia for so called meddling in British politics. I bet you have hey.
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  1911.  @Obiamajoyisrmd  look at your own country stay out of other countries the usa is nothing to do with you hence why you cannot vote in it.
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  1912. funny remainers keep telling me how the eu controls its borders lol
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  1913.  @stuartburns8657  issue is people would rather be on uc and housing bens than work.
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  1914.  @Founderschannel123  they cannot go back most think they are Irish but cannot prove it. The Irish would not let them in.
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  1915.  @ardri31  can’t wait for that, want to see how the south will take on the nhs, the dole and the prods.
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  1916. They will never tax the rich as the rich earn no money it’s hard to tax them. All they will do is tax paye as they always do.
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  1917. Brown sold them off when the uk was in the eu
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  1918.  @user-ov7hp2cw1h  haha poor old thick remainer who cannot move to the eu get off benefits and get a job.
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  1919.  @IndieGems2  did I say it did I just pointed out the uk has no gold it was sold off while the uk was in the eu.
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  1920. become an mp then if its that simple
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  1921.  @redf7209  get a job that does not pay minimum wage plenty out there.
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  1922. All counties should drop others really should back it with something worth money like gold; platinum etc. backing against others money is stupid
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  1923. Funny as it seems the eu is doing far worse than the uk looks like brexit is affecting the eu far worse. United Kingdom 0 -0.2 Italy -0.1 0.5 Turkey -0.1 1.9 Finland -0.2 -0.3 Czech Republic -0.3 -0.2 Croatia -0.4 1.5 Germany -0.4 0.5 Hungary -0.4 -0.7 Greece -0.5 0.6 Iceland -0.5 3.7 Sweden -0.6 0.6 Austria -0.7 0.2 Serbia -0.7 1.2 Lithuania -1.7 1.6 Estonia -1.8 -1.3 Poland -2.4 1 Moldova -8.4 -2.8
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  1924. issue is brits want everything for nothing
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  1925.  @chadvader974  there is helping people and then there are lazy people the brits have become a nation of wanting everything for nothing.
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  1926. remoaners just sad they lost their fom and are too thick to move to the eu without it.
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  1927.  @jackb2491  I feel fine as I work maybe you should try getting off benefits and work.
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  1928.  @jackb2491  yet I’m not a chav I’m a Japanese American on a visa in the uk I don’t rent I own my own home. Thank you. You can rent to the chav but I take it you won’t get your money as they tend to be on bens and will spend their housing bens on big screen tvs rather than give it to you.
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  1929.  @mrantipatia1872  what would you replace it with?
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  1930. Love the remainer crying about the USA while crying about Russia hypocrisy at its best
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  1931.  @yo2trader539  still does not seem right as all kids can have duel nationality until they are 21 unless you specifically ask for it to be cancelled. When we lived in hk many of my Japanese friends had British or American citizenship Japanese and hk citizenship
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  1932.  @yo2trader539  yes I know that as I said I’m birtish my wife is Japanese we migrated to Hong Kong my kids have British and Japanese and hk nationality not one of us is from Hong Kong but they were able to keep their British nationality and Japanese and their hk as they are under 21. All of my friends kids are the same. When you fill out for a new nationality it asks you if you want to relenquish your original nationality you tick no. My wife cannot get another nationality as she is over 21. So she has Japanese only. If she applies for British Nationality she will have to give up her Japanese passport. However my kids were able to keep all 3. Now please explain to me why my kids can keep a nationality they were not born with.
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  1933.  @yo2trader539  no we loved to hk in 2013 so they don’t have bno passports they have Hong Kong passports we lived in hk for over 8 years so got pr first and then hk passports. This is the reason the can have In Japan, anyone with multiple nationalities needs to choose one. If the multi-citizenship is acquired before the age of 20 then they are to choose one before their 22nd birthday. Those who acquire citizenship of another country after turning 20 must decide which one to keep within a two-year period it is nothing to do with broth anyone under the age of 20 can get 2 or more nationalities
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  1934.  @yo2trader539  again we moved to hk in 2013 so nothing to do with the uk
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  1935.  @yo2trader539  I think you need to read about Japanese nationality anyone under the age of 20 can get any nationality
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  1936.  @yo2trader539  I guess they just don’t want anyone in these counties having duel nationality as the Japanese don’t like it.
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  1937.  @yo2trader539  even my wife says she hates it when people her age keep their duel nationality
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  1938.  @yo2trader539  yes and again after the age of 21 before this they can have multiple nationalities they need to choose between the age of 20 to 22. I have had it explained to me time and time again at the Japanese embassies when applying for my kids Japanese passports.
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  1939. Can you tell me where you are getting your figures from everywhere I look the uk is doing far better than the eu United Kingdom 0.2 0.1 Czech Republic 0.1 0 European Union 0 0.2 Germany 0 -0.1 Portugal 0 1.6 Greece -0.1 1.1 Serbia -0.2 0.6 Hungary -0.3 -0.6 Netherlands -0.3 0.9 Italy -0.34 0.6 Austria -0.4 0.1 Malta -0.46 1.09 Estonia -0.6 -1 Latvia -0.6 0.6 Sweden -1.5 0.6 Ireland -2.8 0
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  1940.  @jamescaley9942  well the left don’t care about the poor they just say they do and the poor are too thick to stop voting red. The tories have become red as if they don’t the poor hate them and the poor hate them anyway. It’s a no win situation.
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  1941. What you mean is how prepared are the uk and USA and the rest are not going to do anything
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  1942. It’s bad in the uk because people rely on government handouts and don’t live within their means. People spend on tat from overseas rather than buying local. Then they complain there are no jobs because they only want tat. If they don’t get their tat from overseas they complain it’s due to brexit.
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  1943. 2007 /08 and Covid are the issues to many lazy people not working
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  1944. Yet the uk grew by 0.6% and the eu only 0.3% lol
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  1945.  @peterebel7899  the uk grew its gdp by 0.6% the eu only 0.3% can you add up what one is bigger.
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  1946.  @peterebel7899  latest gdp growth figure world bank uk 4.3% eu only 3.4% seems the uk our growing the eu.
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  1947.  @peterebel7899  the uk has always done this even in the eu hence why millions of low skilled low wage people moved to the uk.
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  1948.  @peterebel7899  can you tell me what is happened to eu unemployment now the low skilled low paid workers cannot move to the uk.
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  1949.  @peterebel7899  I’m happy as long as the uk is no longer in the eu. Fom does not seem to be working for the eu every country In the eu has higher unemployment now than when the uk was in the eu. It’s time for British people to do the jobs eu people did. The eu taught Brits to be lazy. Fom is not the answer you need high skilled people migrating not low skilled people. It’s how why eu people cannot move to the uk and Brits cannot move to the eu. Far too many low skilled uneducated people in both places.
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  1950.  @peterebel7899  the uk was a race to the bottom in the eu. From 2007 to 2022 the uk was on negative growth due to unskilled migration from the eu. Now it does not have this wage growth is now 6% its now the rest of the eu on the race to the bottom German wage growth now -1.2 what the uk was on when it was in the eu let’s see with this wage growth where Germany looks in 5 years time
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  1951.  @peterebel7899  you do understand that the uk was in the eu at this time hence why the British voted to leave the eu. It was the eu that made the race to the bottom you can see that now the uk is out of the eu. Wages are finally growing now you don’t have the uneducated unskilled eu people coming in on below minimum wage.
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  1952.  @peterebel7899  wage growth since the uk left the eu The annual growth for regular earnings (excluding bonuses) was 6.2% in October to December 2023. Annual growth in employees' average total earnings (including bonuses) was 5.8% in October to December 2023 the uk was right to leave the eu if it would of stayed all this eu unemployment would he coming to the uk and wage growth would be -10% the uk did not grow in the eu due to unskilled migration. That had to end.
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  1953.  @peterebel7899  since the uk has been out of the eu it’s grown 4.2% Germany only 1.2% so again now Germany and France are getting all that low skilled migration that would of gone to the uk gdp is actually falling in these countries. Let’s see how well these counties are doing in 5 years time.
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  1954.  @peterebel7899  the uk has been the 2nd fastest growing economy in the g7 for the last two years since it’s been out of the eu Germany is the bottom of the pile. Let’s see how Germany copes with all this unskilled migration that used to come to the uk.
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  1955.  @peterebel7899  I’ll believe it when I see it Germany growth only 0.2% let’s see if it goes up.
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  1956. Damn that brexit hurting the world
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  1957. You know their kids are are druggies and on benefits now these people are what is wrong with the uk. Generations on benefits. While us foreigners work and pay for them all.
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  1958. buddist symbol on temples
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  1959. Funny how the remainers are the real xenophobic people cannot stand migration unless it’s from the eu. I would take these people over the eu, they pay for visas and the nhs surcharge eu people pay nothing and get minimum wage and in work bens. These people are not entitled to bens.
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  1960. how is eu germany doing lol
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  1961.  @timothywatson659  german inflation is less than the uk yep, however their recession is far worse than the uk as they are reliant on putins oil and gas. The germany economy also is going down do to their shrinking population they are in the eu yet still no one wants to go to germany. People are also leaving in their droves, it seems FOM is doing nothing for germany.
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  1962.  @timothywatson659  the uk economy is growing again, small gains but the germany economy is still shrinking. Really you people need to stop reading eu news and start looking at the real facts, Germany and most of the eu is nothing to boast about. Most of the eu has higher inflation than the uk.
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  1963.  @timothywatson659  no its not you clearly no nothing you are a thick remainer who is sad he lost his fom check out inflation on trading economic educated yourself. Ireland for a start has higher inflation than the uk. Remainers are true thickos
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  1964. What I have noticed as an American living in the uk to a Japanese person remain voters seem to hate anyone who is not white and European. Although everything you said there is happening back home in the USA too.
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  1965. @alexandreekarsai6337 good to me they should all leave
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  1966. @ the poor get their rent paid so no it does not hit them. But the uk was right to leave the eu and needs all the eu people to leave. Supply and demand is a massive issue for prices increasing in the uk.
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  1967. @ and why is that because so many people want unmonitored immigration. You get what you vote for. It’s not that hard to live in the uk I moved to the uk 8 years ago and it’s actually cheaper than a lot of countries. The difference is in the uk people vote for a lot of bad political figures who think it’s better for the state to top up peoples salaries than them working a full day for decent pay like in other countries. You don’t get uc in any other country in the world. The reason they do this is to make sure the landlords get paid In the uk as it’s simple if they don’t pay most people will just buy tat than pay their rent. This keeps rent prices high in the uk.
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  1968. I bet everyone bashing this is on benefits really time for all you lazy people to get off benefits and get a job.
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  1969. Remainers you keep saying brexiteers don’t have brains yet you all still live in the uk that is so bad and not one of you have left why. If you are so smart why do you need fom to leave and if you are so worse off why have you not left.
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  1970.  @patrickchilds2987  they can leave they just need skills to leave I keep getting told how smart remainers are if they are that smart they should have the skills to leave. It rally just shows they are not as smart as they think they are.
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  1971. labour they need voters so of course they want more people on minimum wage and benefits. So they can say yep we tax the hard working to pay for the work shy. The work shy cry about the tories all the time as they give them less free money.
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  1972. Not sure how they can they are too thick to get visas for other countries
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  1973. Because they are not working
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  1974. Looks like brexit is hitting the eu lol
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  1975.  @kim007250  and why did it go to 20%
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  1976.  @kim007250  again all you lazy people who won’t work and you still have to pay 20% but your just using other people’s money who are taxed 45% because you won’t work.
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  1977.  @fl-ri-  they might be low skilled the difference is they are not low paid anymore they cannot be low paid as they will not get a visa
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  1978.  @fl-ri-  to me the uk is always going to have supply and demand as Brits would rather take benefits than work.
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  1979. No labour are left not tories.
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  1980. The issue is Brits don’t want to work they cry daily the nasty tories won’t give them enough of the tax payers money we pay in as foreigners they cry we take their jobs yet won’t work. What can the government do but take more of us.
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  1981. @dragoonseye76 not racisim I’m here with my Japanese family. To me all eu people should leave.
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  1982. Damn brexit hitting oz
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  1983. Really then why did the uk grow 0.6% and the eu only 0.3%
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  1984. And remainers still want freedom of Movement lol
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  1985.  @Ribod  brexit happened in 2016 so that is still after brexit.
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  1986.  @Ribod  so it’s still after Brexit then hey . Idiot remainers don’t seem to understand Brexit
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  1987.  @Finderskeepers.  so it will affect them more. It also has 27 countries working out how it will affect them. That’s the issue with the eu it’s going to affect some far more than others.
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  1988.  @Finderskeepers.  the uk as it can set its own trade deals now can move to other countries far more easily, the eu cannot do that.
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  1989.  @Finderskeepers.  you are wrong though these are the biggest countries to import from china the uk is way down the list. Far more eu countries above the uk. - ASEAN 975.3 567.3 408.1 159.2 - European Union 847.3 561.9 285.3 276.6 1 United States 759.4 581.7 177.6 404.4 2 South Korea 362.2 162.6 199.6 -37.0 3 Japan 357.4 172.9 184.4 -11.5 4 Taiwan 319.7 81.5 238.1 -156.6 5 Hong Kong 305.4 297.5 7.8 289.7 6 Vietnam 234.9 146.9 88.0 58.9 7 Germany 227.6 116.2 111.3 4.9 8 Australia 220.9 78.8 142.1 -63.3 9 Malaysia 203.6 93.7 109.9 -16.2 10 Russia 190.3 76.1 114.2 -38.1 11 Brazil 171.5 61.2 109.5 -48.3 12 Indonesia 149.1 71.3 77.8 -6.5 13 India 135.9 118.5 17.4 101.1 14 Thailand 135.0 78.5 56.5 22.0 15 Netherlands 130.2 117.7 12.5 105.2 16 Singapore 115.1 81.2 33.9 47.3 17 United Kingdom 103.4 81.5 21.8 59.7 18 Canada 96.1 53.7 42.4 11.3 19 Philippines 87.7 64.6 23.1 41.5 20 France 81.2 45.6 35.5 10.1 21 Italy 77.8 50.9 26.9 24.0 22 Saudi Arabia 67.2 28.1 39.1 -11.0 23 Mexico 61.0 44.8 16.2 28.6
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  1990.  @Finderskeepers.  the eu is going to have a bumpy ride esp Germany and the Netherlands who import far more from china than the uk does. I’ll take my chances in the uk. Thanks.
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  1991.  @Finderskeepers.  can you tell me when the uk stopped trading with the eu please
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  1992. I thought the eu was a utopia why are romainians and poles who speak no English coming to the uk still. Why don’t they go to the eu where they can work legally.
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  1993. Thick people can no longer move to another country.
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  1994. Seem they hate the uk but they don’t hate the benefits
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  1995. It’s the same everywhere but uk is getting bad because there are to many lazy people.
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  1996. Well you all voted labour you got what you voted for
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  1997. every time i have been to Ireland all we get is racism it seems everyone in Ireland will go to jail on this bill then
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  1998.  @taintabird23  really you have not seen it in Ireland. Name calling, pulling your eyes to make them look Asian. Go back to Asia. Etc
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  1999.  @taintabird23  I really can see why you need it in Ireland as it seems you cannot see it. The same in Germany.
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  2000.  @taintabird23  i did you tube delete it that’s the issue with YouTube tell the truth they delete it
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  2001.  @taintabird23  but I can tell your a racist so won’t believe it
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  2002. funny remainers keep telling me the eu controls its borders.
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  2003.  @jackx4311  the issue is they have no skills to move they have all be educated in David beckham, they cannot even get jobs in the uk. Who will take them in the eu.
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  2004. Good the uk does not need the eu time for the uk to look globally not 26 counties most of which the uk does not even trade with.
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  2005.  @kagakai7729  most of the eu already uk recession lol 😂
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  2006.  @markwilkie3677  since then last time I looked the world had covid lol and Brits got even more lazy hence why you need people like me here on visas. The thing is in the USA where I am from we don’t have the benefits you have people have to work. This isuse with thick Brits like you is you don’t work and blame everyone else for your issues. Maybe get out and get a job.
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  2007.  @markwilkie3677  maybe if lazy Brits got off their butts and worked it might. But you all want benefits and to blame the government for your issues rather than work.
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  2008.  @gswiftgs23  that is what has happened with all currencies since the gold standard. Have you not seen how much the pound / dollar/ yen has fallen since then.
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  2009.  @gswiftgs23  really that’s funny we seem to be doing ok in it the only people who are not are the lazy Brits. I moved 6 years ago and never done so well. Bought a home in 3 years of being in the uk. Saving more than ever and now the rates are going up getting more interest than ever got the highest pay rise I have ever had the last two years and the first time this year where my pay rise was above inflation.
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  2010.  @JohnnyWitney  people in the uk cry about them that is why when the uk tried to put them in recently they complained and said they want to lock them in until they die. In Japan they think nothing of 40 year home loans: it’s the uk people who are dumb that is why.
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  2011. Because the eu is full of lazy people who just want benefits.
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  2012. Where is it getting them they can’t get rid of them they are in the eu. The eu sets their immigration laws.
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  2013. got to love the uk bashing but it would seem that the eu is doing no better than the uk
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  2014. That’s because they paid far more in to their pensions than people do in the uk.
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  2015. Damn that brexit hitting Germany
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  2016. @ they can be that’s the thing. People just choose to import them as it’s still cheaper. Many are made in the uk. Take Brie cheese for example made in Somerset now but still more expensive than importing from France even with the price increase.
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  2017. @ and that’s why they should pay more, you can choose what you want to buy. If it’s imported and can be made in the uk then you should pay more and are. In all for that. I would rather where I can support the items made in the uk. What the uk cannot make then I have to buy from overseas and I gladly pay for that or orange, computers etc, cheese can be made in the uk. Beef, chicken, pork, veg etc all grown in the uk so gladly buy uk. I know you want it all imported so you should pay more. I know you miss your horse burgers. I don’t want them.
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  2018. @ that is totally not true.
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  2019. @ I am so glad you a need to pay more. It is great keep eating your horse burgers. I will continue to buy British where I can. You continue you buy eu horse burgers.
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  2020. @ when it’s sold as beef
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  2021. @ got to love the eu standards hey passing off horse as beef. Killing tourists on holiday. You can keep that. Giving tourists the runs. You keep that.
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  2022. All that 12 years as done is make people more lazy. It will be even worse under the next labour gov. Some say 80% of people will be on bens why because labour pay more. People rather than ask their bosses for a rise ask the tories and if they don’t get it they are nasty.
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  2023. can you tell me what eu country the tory party runs
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  2024.  @chongy9895 funny the eu seem to be so great but need the uk and USA all the time.
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  2025.  @chongy9895  if they don’t need the uk stay out now we do not. It’s time the uk and USA helped themselves not everyone else.
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  2026.  @hb9145  na can’t stand Donald thought Donald wanted war well so do the democrats
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  2027.  @hb9145  what makes me laugh is the eu counties say they don’t need the uk and USA but when it comes to war they need the uk and USA.
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  2028.  @hb9145  not a leftist cannot stand leftist just sick and tired of the uk and the USA always fight for Europe the eu is meant to be all so powerful let them do it .
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  2029. It is rich just to many lazy people in the uk wanting everything for nothing. If it was not rich the migrants would not be leaving the eu in their droves for the uk. The only people who think the uk is not rich are the people on benefits not getting all the free money they want from the tax payer. I have been living in the uk 6 years in that time I have a 6 figure job, bought my home all I hear from the lazy their are no good jobs we need more eu migration. So I don’t have to work.
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  2030. Well it seems that fom not working well for Ireland hey lol
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  2031. Typical labour calling for lock downs again.
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  2032. The bankers want labour back they are going under again and want the rest of the gold.
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  2033.  @ab-ym3bf  yes it is I have lived all over the world and not one country I have lived in the government pays the rents of people
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  2034.  @ab-ym3bf  name me one country that pays working citizens rents.
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  2035.  @ab-ym3bf  still not posted one country that pays its working citizens rents hey.
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  2036.  @ab-ym3bf  then post a country that pays its working citizens rents. Post me a source too. I can tell you there is not one. Countries pay benefits for people out of work not in work the uk is the only country in the world to do this. It does it to keep landlords in high rents. This is stupid. All other counties in the world pay unemployment benefits and have a rent cap. Only the uk that has no rent cap and pays working citizens rents.
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  2037.  @ab-ym3bf all have unemployment Benefits only not one pays working people rents try again.
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  2038.  @jontalbot1  no it does not hence why rents are cheaper in rent controlled countries every country that has rent controlling has far cheaper rents than the uk. I do agree the uk needs more homes, but where do you build all these homes in the uk, people don’t like flats they all want 2 up and 2 down homes. They won’t build in the green belt and Brits are too lazy to work so you need mass migration. You bring in 1.2 million of us foreigners each year because Brits won’t work. So you need rent controls you need to stop paying for working people first to rent. People need to get decent jobs and start working.
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  2039.  @jontalbot1  I sure do
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  2040.  @swojnowski453  if you got to my country no matter how low paid you are the government won’t pay your rent you work more or you are homeless. This makes rents much cheaper in the uk you can work less and let the gov pay your rent and if they don’t you cry nasty tories.
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  2041.  @leighsherval1023  the bbc is definitely left full of left wing champagne socialists who pay no tax while complaining at the other rich people to pay their tax. They are hypocrites. They go on about others yet never look at themselves. Gary is this type of person even the other day his tax affairs came up his a contractor and was blaming the bbc for not paying his tax. It’s his responsibility not theirs. How can anyone stick up from someone who pays no tax. This takes alway from people who need a saftey net and the nhs. And complain they the tories are nazis. It’s the left who the nazis.
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  2042. I bet reform get more votes than rejoin eu, yet there are meant to me more rejoiners than brexit voters now.
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  2043. They cannot live in the uk as they are too thick to move country without fom.
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  2044.  @Evermoregreen23451  remoaners are too thick to see anything too thick to work and too thick to leave the country as they have no skills anyone else wants. this remainer is probably on UC and not even good enough to fill the low skilled work the uk needs.
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  2045.  @flickthenick  no what I have seen in the 8 years of living in the uk and all I hear from you lazy Brits it’s all the nasty tories fault that your are all poor and cannot afford to heat and eat
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  2046. If the uk is the sick man of Europe can you please tell me why France has not over taken the uk?
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  2047.  @scottrussell360  not according to trading economics
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  2048.  @scottrussell360  even if you say it’s 5% it’s still lower than the uk so again brexit affecting Germany more than the uk. Lol uk rates also at 3 to 7% for savings Germany at 1% so seems uk better for savers too.
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  2049.  @scottrussell360  funny I have just been on there and real wage growth is Wage Growth -4.40 percent
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  2050.  @scottrussell360  the uk needs people like me paying in 2000 every 2 years for a visa and 610 for nhs surcharge plus tax and ni. We have no recourse to bens. Really the day of brexit they should of said to all eu people that were not here for 5 years to pay for visas and the nhs surcharge and stopped their benefits.
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  2051.  @joakimtag7820  tell me what there wage growth is and interest rates are?
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  2052.  @joakimtag7820  oh wait + 6 percent wage growth uk -4.40 Germany -5% France rates + 3 to 7% uk France 0.9% and Germany 1% well I know where I would rather be uk. Lol
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  2053.  @joakimtag7820  100k at 7% or 100k at 1% let me think
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  2054.  @adrien5834  do you think they have only increased in the uk? If so you are a moron. In California where I’m from my mom and dads bills have gone up 70% where in the uk mine have gone up around 30% there is no help at all in the USA, where as in the uk we all got money to help with our bills. Do you think that bills have not gone up in the eu. If so again you are stupid.
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  2055.  @richardmoloney689  another reason to hate the tories lol I guess they did the right thing in the end and get the uk out of it.
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  2056.  @bryangeake5826  markets and indicators and wage growth
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  2057.  @bryangeake5826  so you would rather have -4.40% wage growth over 6% with almost the same inflation. Well I guess most remainers are on benefits so I guess it does not matter to them.
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  2058.  @bryangeake5826  to me I will take 6% wage growth over no wage growth anyday.
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  2059.  @bryangeake5826  again then Germany and most of the eu is far worse than the uk as they have minus wage growth and 1% interest rates.
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  2060.  @bryangeake5826  yet uk wage growth is 6% and most eu growth is minus check out trading economics, uk intrest rates are at 3 to 7% where as eu interest rates are at 1%. If the eu is doing so good. Why is it that the 8 million eu people stay in the uk and not one remainer has left to the eu. Lol
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  2061.  @bryangeake5826  well I can tell you why remainers have not left because they are all as thick as two planks and cannot get visas to move.
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  2062.  @bryangeake5826  one more thing if the uk as also had no growth and all the eu countries have grown so much what Is France still below the uk and India on gdp. I would of expected it to over take a long time ago as the uk keeps shrinking
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  2063.  @bryangeake5826  then why has France not over taken the uk for gdp? I would of expected them to take over the uk by now. Isn’t it funny in 2013 before brexit France was above the uk. After brexit the uk has been above France year on year.
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  2064.  @bryangeake5826  also you said uk gdp has not grown can you explain why uk gdp was 2.7 trillion in 2016 and why it’s 3.18 trillion today that to me is growth while France and the eu is growing a lot and France gdp was 2.4 trillion in 2016 and 2.9 trillion today looks to me again that the uk is growing more than France
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  2065.  @bryangeake5826  from the ons website I trust that over you.
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  2066.  @bryangeake5826  again please explain to me if the eu is growing at 5% why is the uk still above France for gdp.
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  2067.  @bryangeake5826  France would of over taken the uk by now. Why has it not please explain?
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  2068.  @bryangeake5826  0.5% growth actually or than expected now again please explain if the uk has not grown and contracted ever since brexit why is the uk gdp still higher than France.Monthly real gross domestic product (GDP) is estimated to have grown by 0.5% in October 2022, following a fall of 0.6% in September 2022, which was affected by the additional bank holiday for the State Funeral of HM Queen Elizabeth II.
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  2069.  @bryangeake5826  even at 2.5% France would of over taken the uk can you please explain why the uk is still a above France. You have said the uk has not grown since brexit. In this case the uk would be below even Italy please explain why the uk is still the 2nd biggest economy in Europe.
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  2070.  @bryangeake5826  at the 2.5% growth that you say France has had simple math would put France way above the uk at 0 growth for 6 years. So again please explain why France is still well below the uk.
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  2071.  @bryangeake5826  according to microtrends the uk economy has grow 7.44% since 2016 where as France has grown 6.96 and Germany by 2.89% to me again this would suggest the eu has been affected far more than the uk since brexit. Lol
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  2072.  @bryangeake5826  according to your stats though it should be way above the uk. So your stats are wrong somewhere along the line. Again also according to your 2.5% growth and brexit they should be way above the uk not below. So seems like brexit not working out so well for the eu as you would suggest hey.
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  2073.  @bryangeake5826  when France over take the uk for gdp I might believe remainers until then. What makes me laugh though is you want the uk to do so bad and yet you live here. I have only been here 6 years and actually never done so well. Covid been great now I work from home never saved so much money, rates at 6% so savings interest never been so high. I’m living the life here. Brexit seems great. Hopefully rates will go up more. Keep up the brexit. Lol pound on the rise again so I’m winning sending money back to the USA too.
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  2074.  @bryangeake5826  nothing but great for me over the last 2 years of brexit, you know why I work, so nothing but savings nice to actually have a decent savings rate. I know you remainers have had a disaster as you all buy eu crap. You do know there is a massive world out there and goods from other countries, maybe also look locally the uk makes a lot of decent goods too. Why do you need eu crap. Maybe it’s time to look else where for what you need the world is big not just 27 countries the other 180 countries in the world are doing just fine not being in the eu. Maybe time for you remainers to actually get an education and use it if you wish to leave the country. The other 180 countries in the world use this to move around the world and work why can you. I know you love uk benefits but maybe it’s time to actually work. You do know remainer you can work In plumbing, building, many other jobs. You don’t need eu people to do this the world seems to cope without low skilled eu workers. Maybe time to get off bens and work.
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  2075.  @bryangeake5826  your figures are made up please when you choose figures make sure you have a source the uk does not import 80% from the eu. Please don’t tell someone they are talking economic crap then spout rubbish. The EU, taken as a whole is the UK's largest trading partner. In 2021, UK exports to the EU were £267 billion (42% of all UK exports). UK imports from the EU were £292 billion (45% of all UK imports) no wonder you remainers lost you tell us all that the brexiteers lie. I have never met a remainer that can tell the truth. Again brexit is only a disaster to remainers because you are all too thick as two planks you cannot read real stats you make everything up to suite you. If you were all so smart again you would not need fom to move. Please get some skills you maybe able to use them to get a job rather than making up crap on why you are so poor. You need to get jobs like the rest of us. Now get off benefits and get a job. Too many of brits and eu people are on benefits that is what is messing up this country. People like me on visas are paying to keep you all on the dole. It’s time you cut the benefits bill. 190 billion on benefits spent this year. When only 219 billon is on the nhs. The work shy bill is almost as much as the nhs. That is crazy. You paid to import people on minimum wage and benefits and you like that no wonder the uk is in trouble paying for people who have paid in little. This is economic disaster no other country in the world would do this hence why 180 countries never joined the eu. People like you are total morons. And showing why you are so poor and why brexit has affected you so much because you claim to be economic wizards while not even knowing how much trade you do with the eu. You remainers might buy 80% of your goods from the eu because you hate the uk and the other 180 counties in the world because you are xenophobic racists who don’t like anything outside of the eu. While you type on your phones from china. The brexiteers have actually woken up to the world and British products it’s time you did too.
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  2076.  @Tonydjjokerit  and yet they are all so thick they cannot leave without fom
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  2077.  @Tonydjjokerit  again which leads me to suggest how thick they are they could see brexit coming and not one changed their business model.
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  2078.  @Tonydjjokerit  that’s funny all I hear is remainers complain they lost their fom they can’t go to the eu now lol.
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  2079.  @scrapox217  so Germany is Ukraine and Russia and the uk is brexit lol. I think your find that the uk is affected by Ukraine and Russia not brexit too. But the morons of the uk because they are too thick to get visas and move to other countries because they lost their fom. Need to blame brexit rather than their education.
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  2080.  @scrapox217  I take it you are one of these thick morons.
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  2081.  @scrapox217  brexit is nothing to do with it. Why you morons cannot get this through your thick heads. The USA is suffering with the costs and high inflation due to china and Russia as the uk and every other country in the world. It seems the only country not suffering due to china and the war is the uk. Can you explain how it’s all to do with brexit in the uk and the war in Germany and world wide.
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  2082.  @scrapox217  I was joking when I said brexit had something to do with it. It’s as madness as saying the only thing that is affecting the uk is brexit. This is a world wide issue.
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  2083. maybe if brits got jobs you would not need these people
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  2084. So they should be they are illegals why only deport some foreigners. Eu citizens are now the same as us non eu people they either get visas or deported.
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  2085. Don’t worry labour will be in soon to rob working people more to pay for the ones who don’t work.
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  2086. when you can get the tax payer to pay it for you
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  2087. Do the tories rule the world have you seen the world lately
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  2088.  @lukemorgan6166  same thing happened under 12 years of labour. Just they gave 1.2 trillion to the banks, the tories gave it to the people in the form of forlough eat out to help out. Free covid tests and injections . They would of been better just doing a labour and giving it to the banks lol as the people don’t seem to want it.
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  2089.  @luminousfractal420  that’s funny it seems like the likes of corbyn are more on putins side than boris and the tories. If the tories loved putin why are they helping Ukraine while the left are trying to help putin.
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  2090.  @rodrigovaccari7547  then why don’t you leave what makes me laugh is so many so called smart people keep telling me how the uk is so bad yet not one of you will leave why is that
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  2091.  @rodrigovaccari7547  yet the uk has grown more than the eu lol can’t make it up United Kingdom 0.2 0.1 Czech Republic 0.1 0 European Union 0 0.2 Germany 0 -0.1 Portugal 0 1.6 Greece -0.1 1.1 Serbia -0.2 0.6 Hungary -0.3 -0.3 Netherlands -0.3 -0.4 Italy -0.34 0.6 Austria -0.4 0.1 Cyprus -0.4 0.8 Malta -0.46 1.09 Estonia -0.6 -1 Latvia -0.6 0.6 Sweden -1.5 0.6 Ireland -2.8 0 Poland -3.7 3.8
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  2092. What do the Irish and islamists do best terrorism and being cowards
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  2093. Don’t worry labour will sell the rest of the gold on the cheap give everyone more benefits until people realise and vote in the tories again.
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  2094. Funny the economy grew again so the uk already out of recession. This post is nonsense.
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  2095. Can you tell me who in the government today committed these crimes and can you tell me we’re you around when these happened. If not why do you care time to move on.
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  2096.  @johnluo2963  no they do not the yanks and the Brits did far worse they dropped two nukes on the Japanese. The Chinese over the years have done far worse also and still doing it today the Japanese are a peaceful people now because of it the Chinese and the Brits and the yanks are not. If anything the only ones to have learned form the war are the Japanese the rest still warmonger. Look at what the Chinese are doing in Asia. If anything needs to be denounced it’s the Chinese.
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  2097. Ireland cannot be for the Irish your in the eu. The eu sets your immigration laws.
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  2098. last time I looked the tories are no in power.
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  2099. Funny it was you labour voters who bailed out the banks last time
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  2100. No need to worry labour will be in soon might as well give them 20% and let labour worry
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  2101. Can’t see it it’s all made to be saved the same in 2007
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  2102. Looks like fom working well for Germany then hey lol
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  2103.  @PaulJohn01  oh wait I thought that was only the uk remainers keep telling me all the nhs workers come from the eu. They seem to hate that brown people are now working in the nhs.
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  2104.  @PaulJohn01  oh wait I thought that was only the uk remainers keep telling me all the nhs workers come from the eu. They seem to hate that brown people are now working in the nhs.
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  2105. No one wants to chuck it into a bucket
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  2106. Why is this the tories fault it’s the labour morons who vote in labour.
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  2107.  @angelahayes24  na it was all white labour left wing loonies who hate the tories and will do anything to keep them out. Including causing everyone who is poor pain.
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