Comments by "David McCulloch" (@davidmcculloch8490) on "Daily Record" channel.

  1. So something at last. Apparently less than Gordon Brown proposed - probably to avoid upsetting Murdoch. As for the Tories... nothing: too busy watching their two rats in a sack spouting a catalogue of fantasy. Expect too little, too late, while blaming someone else. Britain is broken.
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  2. The government has lost the plot. Shapps is not alone. Enough is enough.
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  3. Not pro-business enough to stimulate real investment. The party of oppressive austerity.
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  4. Agreed. But Murdoch wouldn't approve.
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  5. Second homes for MPs are a disgrace, as are second jobs. Put them up in halls of residence while working in London.
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  6. No. Gordon Brown does though
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  7. Think you'll find that was started by Thatcher and continued by New Labour (not old.)
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  8.  @grimnir8872  Do you mean the assets leased by the operating companies? Who pays these jokers to operate the franchises now? Public money. Who pays to run the infrastructure? Public money. Don't buy the Daily Fail rhetoric. Public ownership was fully costed in the last Labour manifesto. Instead, 43.6% of the electorate were greedy or deluded enough to support an act of national self-harm.
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  9.  @grimnir8872  The fact remains: the proposal was costed and is imminently achievable. So much of our railways are publicly owned, unfortunately mainly by foreign governments. In terms of finance and economics, I happen to know how it could be achieved without extra tax. Don't buy the Tory lie of tax, spend and borrow. They have the worst financial record in government. Btw Network Rail does the maintenence and is subsidised by taxpayers.
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  10.  @grimnir8872  "Jog on." Is that cutting rhetoric? When did JC explain that? Running costs are paid with fares. That's how private companies also make profits, by increasing fares beyond inflation. Do some simple maths instead of jogging. If the profit element is deducted, prices go down. Btw, which economists made that statement. I actually studied degree-level economics. Vacuous nonsense.
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  11.  @grimnir8872  Socialism works successfully in Scandavian countries, usually as part of a real democracy where votes are equal. On a point of detail, I said qualified at degree level - actually as part of two different professional qualifications, each including economics, one in operational management. I can conclusively assert that this government is the worst in my lifetime: operationally incompetent and vacuous to the extent of not comprehending the word plan.
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  12.  @shaun8141  in your back yard, then? Read about the damage in Pennsylvania.
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  13.  @michaelshore2300  ????
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  14.  @colinwishbone4437  do some research, Colin. He didn't cause the INTERNATIONAL banking crash.
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  15. It takes unassailable arrogance (which only a Tory can achieve) to declare "the people's priorities." I don't recall being consulted on these, nor even seeing them in the last manifesto that a minority (43.6%) of voters supported. Here's a priority for Rishi: stop lying and behaving like a little spiv and call an election.
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  16.  @stevenmartin8828  oh yes he does, panto guy. What was wrong with his plan?
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  17.  @stevenmartin8828  grow up
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  18.  @stevenmartin8828  how childish! Wtf are you talking about? Who? Have you listened to any answers? Are words beyond you, so you are stuck with communication by graphics?
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  19. We don't have "high tax," Dizzy Lizzy, we have low investment. Investment stimulates growth, yet the Tories have wet dreams over oppressive austerity.
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  20. "Tax our way to growth!" Utter bollocks! Tax has little to do with growth. Investment stimulates growth. She will leave it up to the companies to invest (at the expense of shareholder dividends and exec bonuses.) Neoliberal free-market impotence, which she espoused in Britannia Unchained and still excuses in her vacuous brain. Look at the dollar rate after Biden introduced a stimulus package.
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