Comments by "Alan hat" (@alanhat5252) on "Richard J Murphy" channel.

  1. So we need to learn how to vote for MPs (& thus governments) who will actually do the job we pay them to do not the job "donors" are paying for.
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  2. Thank you! I'm glad I'm not the only one that's noticed the festering masses of offices that have been building up clinging like guano to the NHS since the 1979 government sold off cleaning services & gave us MRSA.
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  3. ​ @CarlTebbutt the "nouveau riche" have been attracting condemnation for centuries, both from those above & those below them.
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  4. ​ @stephenhaywood5672 excellent joke! 😂😂😂😂 The company's owners - Tice, a property tycoon, & Farage, a hedgefund dealer who used "Insider Trading" to make millions off the Brexit vote. 😮
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  5. Back when BP was British, before the Government sold it without asking us, BP made (in large numbers) the world's best solar panels. Tough, long-lasting & (for the era) very high output. You can still find them on road sign illuminations & a few other places.
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  6. @532bluepeter1 that's "new money", "old money" are usually very much the opposite, they're working towards the stability of the estate which very much includes the welfare of everyone living on the estate & the land itself. "Old money" was decimated in the 1970s though – Labour taxed many of them out of existence putting thousands out of housing & of employment, English Heritage had to be created to catch some of the abandoned manor houses.
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  7. ​ @stevencalvert9454 lack of regulation in construction gave us Grenfell Tower 😢
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  8. This poses a useful question, useful if you ask your MP (& you definitely should ask).
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  9. Surely it's within the Government's power to make either borrowing or saving either attractive or unattractive for each sector?
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  10. The UK isn't Bhutan & our Press don't compare it with Bhutan. To the best of my knowledge Bhutan is the only country which tracks itself in these terms.
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  11. Product quality is about patient safety, it comes from the adulterated bread scandals of the early & mid 1800s when bread was all many people could afford to eat. (It's also why bakeries are singled out for protection in the Geneva Conventions governing war).
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  12. There's not supposed to be a financial transaction during lobbying but all too often there is
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  13. You miss the point, there is no dispute that the NHS is intrinsically A Good Thing but it could be better & a few of it's flaws are inherently lethal. This monologue begins to set out one of those flaws & states that it's a problem of the whole of society not just the NHS.
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  14. The UK has more than 2 political parties, the last century's 2 encumbents have had their turn & just like the Whigs they can join the annals of history without any upset to the populace.
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  15. ​@Minimmalmythicistwith Starmer not Corbyn the outlier 😢
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  16. ​ @annphillips1086 look again, the Green's offering is excellent
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  17. ...and not written by the sitting Prime Minister
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  18. Yes, a video explaining the ramifications of joining the Euro would be useful information when choosing how to vote.
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  19. I blame the dumbing-down driven by the Daily Mail & the other titles which have followed the same path
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  20.  @GG-hu9dn  "build them for everybody" suggests to me things like Buckingham Palace & the Victorian museums, libraries, bath houses, sewers & other public utilities. The Victorians certainly built a lot of public works.
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  21. We have exactly that in the Civil Service but politicians are forever interfering in their work. We need to learn how to vote for better politicians.
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  22. ​ @RichardJMurphy governments may not need credit ratings but changes are used for political leverage
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  23. Unless we collectively suddenly learn how to vote I'm afraid you're right 😢
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  24. ​ @grolfe3210 it looks like you're one of the people who refuse to play your proper part in a democracy by giving attention to all the options. There was indeed a party offering reform of the House of Lords!
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  25. The leading cause by far of bankruptcies 😢
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  26. Labour is afraid of Nuttyahoo 😢
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  27. No, real Labour are very good with the country's finances, they've dragged us out of every hole the Torys dropped us in since 1945, even Blair did an adequate job though, after his purges, Starmer doesn't have much hope of following the tradition.
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  28. _a_ problem, it's far from the only problem
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  29. good to see you here 😊
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  30. A new incentive has finally arrived -- solar panels are now cheaper than roof tiles!
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  31. ​ @glyngreen538 roughly 3% of UK land covered by solar panels would supply our entire electricity needs - 1.4% is already built on.
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  32. It's been left so long that carbon capture has become necessary 😢 The warnings started in 1912 & the entire science community went public more than 50 years ago, government action is waaay late, possibly too late, & we're having to pay for it 😢
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  33. This goes back to Thatcher & the 1977 Ridley Report. 😢
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  34. apparently something to do with Gordon Brown
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  35. NHS -- did you miss the bit where Richard talked about this? He said (& he's right) if you're in a queue & there's an immigrant in front of you they're not queuing, they're the doctor you're going to see.
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  36. That line may have worked in the 1960s but that was a very long time ago! 😂😂😂
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  37. ​ @arthur1670 you're suggesting pensioners should pay their own pension out of their pension. This seems a little daft to me.
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  38. ​ @arthur1670 you cannot blame private individuals for Parliament's mismanagement, the 1948 universal State Pension was only supposed to be paid from current funds temporarily due to the massive financial hit of WWII & it's recovery. Several attempts have been made to get it properly funded but none have completed the task.
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  39. Excellent idea! Thank you 😊
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  40. Starmer's Labour left-wing!?! 😮 😂😂😂😂
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  41. ​ @bobbylove8565 you must be in southern Scotland, everywhere else in the UK (& Europe) currently has wind (& at least some solar).
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  42. This all sits on the 1977 Ridley Report which explores how General Pinochet's Neoliberalism could sit in British governance. It was the basis of Thatcherism which has been followed by every Government since. We have been offered alternatives, in the last election there was the Green's offer & in the previous 2 elections there was both that & the Corbyn/McDonnell offer but people prefer not to think, prefer to be told how to vote 😢
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  43. The original use of "left & right" denoted where courtiers sat relative to the French king (yes, before the Revolution), those on the King's left represented the people & those on his right represented commerce. The terms haven't changed much, merely gained nuance. Starmer sits to the right.
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  44. The Sir Humphrey Appleby character in "Yes, Minister" is real, one of them was interviewed by the Lord Speaker just yesterday. A very interesting watch...
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  45. Whilst that's an interesting diatribe against Reform UK Ltd, I didn't hear you define the term "right wing" & since so many in youtube comments clearly don't understand the term would have been a good starting point. On this topic you are not talking to university students.
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  46. ​ @tmoosy both Torys & Labour were voted into place by the íđíót electorate of this country. 😢
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  47. I have no doubt there are senior Treasury staff who drink in the same Gentleman's Club as senior staff at the Bank of England, messages could be passed...
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  48. You have sooo many fascinating things to learn, enjoy your journey 😊 2 that stand out for me are Speenhamland & the fact that Income Tax, Corporation Tax & Capital Gains Tax were till fairly recently all one tax with the same rates for all. (Income Tax is now highest by a large margin)
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  49. This is what hustings are for – they let you discover which candidates are happy to guess & which seek expertise so you can then #VoteWisely.
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  50. ​ @WarrenPeacenik narrowing it down to those 2 is a political choice just as much as picking one of them. There are several models & variations to choose from.
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  51. Not Unions. The Labour Party was formed by Unions, it's their party, their voice in Parliament. It's in the Labour Party's charter that it represents "organized labour" though their MPs seem to have forgotten that in recent decades.
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  52.  @handyandy6050  the whole system revolves around the agreement that debts aren't called in on any significant scale. The only time I can recall it happening is when Barclay's did it to Brazil a few decades ago & the outcry globally against Barclay's was severe, many people & some companies closed their accounts with them & I'm sure I'm not the only one still boycotting them.
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  53. So the "£22bn black hole" we've heard so much about is mere pocket-change? 😂 Politicians massaging figures again, who would have guessed?
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  54. Jeremy Corbyn offered a nationalized drug company, the newspapers told us to reject him so the brain-dead sheep did.
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  55. Ditch the acres of offices & put Matron back in charge!
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  56. He doesn't dismiss the result, he explores it just as everyone with half a brain is doing right now
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  57. The '70s "higher taxes" was in no way "higher"!! "The highest rate of income tax peaked in the Second World War at 99.25%. This was slightly reduced after the war and was around 97.5 per cent (nineteen shillings and sixpence in the pound) through the 1950s and 1960s.[10] Tax revenues as a percentage of GDP for the UK in comparison to the OECD and the EU 15 In 1971, the top rate of income tax on earned income was cut to 75%. A surcharge of 15% on investment income kept the overall top rate on that income at 90%. In 1974 the top tax rate on earned income was again raised, to 83%. With the investment income surcharge this raised the overall top rate on investment income to 98%, the highest permanent rate since the war. This applied to incomes over £20,000 (equivalent to £263,269 in 2023 terms).[3] In 1974, around 750,000 people paid the higher (but not necessarily the top) rate of income tax.[11]" -- Wikipedia
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  58. "Exodus of wealth" is fiction, just think about it, where exactly is that wealth? It's not stuffed under billionaire's mattresses! It's invested in assets, immobile assets – if you own Tottenham Court Road how do you pick it up & move it to the Caymans? And even if you manage it what value is it without the rest of London & its airports surrounding it?
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  59. Yes, Brexit evaded that EU Directive 😢
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  60. It's been getting progressively worse for 4½ decades, I can see why you're not expecting change. 😢
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  61. Blair's Government put in the law requiring insulation & solar panels in new builds, the 2010 government scrapped it. 😢
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  62. ​ @safirahmed yes it does! It also competes with the Isle of Man, the various Channel Islands & the British Overseas Territories. All of them tax havens!
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  63. I have no doubt they drink in the same Gentlemen's Clubs
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  64. Before Thatcher's era it was well understood by the public & by business that's what regulation is for.
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  65. Who gave Private Equity this power? Governments that we íđíóts put into power 😢 I do wish people would learn how to vote.
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  66. Politicians reneging on promises should be an indictable offense
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  67. These parties are also not corrupt & are aimed at serving the _people_ of _Britain!_
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  68. ​ @billB101 thank you for the reminder of Establishment propaganda.
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  69. We have had that party for years but the media refuse to platform them -- the Greens! Also Plaid, SNP, Sinn Fein, Alliance & many others.
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  70. So what did happen to General Pinochet in the end? He was the one who introduced us to Neoliberalism
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  71. ​ @inguzwulf I don't think "well meaning" has applied in the UK since 1979 & there was precious little evidence of it in the centuries before though we did have a brief interlude after 1945.
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  72. Sykes-Picot in 1916, Britain fostering Zíonísm from 1917, repeatedly redrawing the map of the Middle East & re-establishing leaderships in the region well into the 1930s might be considered more than just "meddling". Kurdistan & Mesopotamia still haven't reappeared on the maps. Aden, the most important port outside the British Isles (from the Empire's point of view) has been repeatedly trashed...
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  73. Agreed but 5 years not 2 years. The first 2 years are occupied with the financial shocks of moving.
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  74. ​ @robinbeckford there never was a "far left" in UK politics, well, at least since the Levellers
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  75. This goes back to Thatcher so yes, every Parliament since has had input.
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  76. The principle of Neoliberalism as I understand it is to hand over governance to "The Market" & Government goes back to bed for 5 years
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  77. I absolutely agre with you but this is one of your least well-explained videos. It seems to be about the fundamentally vindictive governmental laziness that is Pinochet/Thatcher/Reagan's Neoliberalism 😢
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  78. 10:00 this is why your NHS number changed a few years ago & is now a uniform 10-digit string of numbers which is really easy for computers to index & sort
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  79. ​ @jameshutton3960 no, it's been done to force pensioners onto Iain Duncan Smith's "Universal Credit", a scheme so lethal that even Iain Duncan Smith walked away from it! 330,000 dead at the last count which was several years ago.
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  80. ​ @bernardfox9078 only 8% voted for the credible alternative. 😢
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  81. ​ @robertreynolds580 Russia invaded countries in 1918, '21, '24, '29, '38, '39, '40, '42, '44, '45, '50, '53, '56, '60, '67, '68, '69, '75, '77, '79, '90, '92, 2008, '14, '15, '16 & '22, why single out that one?
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  82. ​ @erongi233 Gorbachev served as General Secretary of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union from 1985 and additionally as head of state beginning in 1988, as Chairman of the Presidium of the Supreme Soviet from 1988 to 1989, Chairman of the Supreme Soviet from 1989 to 1990 and the president of the Soviet Union from 1990 to 1991 (- Wikipedia) so was leader from 1985 to the dissolution. Ok, Carter was before that but not as far before as you suggest.
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  83. UK security is breached most days, it's often called cyber-crime, occasionally it's called cyber-war.
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  84. The reality is bad enough, you don't need to drag in lunatic conspiracy theories! 😂😂😂
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  85.  @safirahmed  where? There's nothing about reptilians or Socioeconomic Darwinism on their website.
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  86.  @safirahmed  😂😂😂😂
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  87. ​ @skipperclinton1087 British defense contractors can't be "rebuilt" because they're already market leaders.
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  88. ​ @occamraiser "Pages in category "Defence companies of the United Kingdom" The following 53 pages are in this category, out of 53 total. This list may not reflect recent changes. A ADS Group Alenia Marconi Systems Avon Technologies AWD Trucks B Babcock International BAE Systems BAE Systems Avionics BAE Systems Maritime – Maritime Services BAE Systems Maritime – Naval Ships BMT Group C CAP Scientific Carron Company Chemring Group Cobham Limited CORDA (company) Coventry Ordnance Works D Defence Aviation Repair Agency Devonport Management Limited E Edgar Brothers Elswick Ordnance Company G General Dynamics UK Graseby I Imperial Defence Services INSYS Intelligent UK Holdings Limited" -- Wikipedia Sorry, my clipboard won't let me post the complete list...
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  89. ​ @WarrenPeacenik Russia has been attacking UK for decades, with cyber & propaganda not bombs & tanks.
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  90. ​ @dazecm you're commenting on a spam thread.
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  91. ​ @stevencalvert9454 both Labour & Torys are Neoliberals which is the source of this problem. Thatcher started this by basing her premiership on the Ridley Report & it's just carried on from there.
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  92. The answer, in elections, has been staring in the faces of Americans & us here for many years although masked by the Media & propaganda - the Green parties. Their people are still people though & just as susceptible to corruption as anyone else so we have to become much more involved in the workings of our governments.
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  93. And on the 6th what then?
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  94. 😂😂😂 Guido Fawkes 😂😂😂 Pick a source that doesn't just make up every story!
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  95. What you've missed is that Government, Media & Tufton Street aren't going to go anywhere near MMT but this speaks their language even if they won't like the message.
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  96. In your dreams! 😂😂😂 If we could convince people to vote in their own or the country's interests that would happen automatically but people vote however the newspapers tell them!
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  97. Watch Bloomberg's "the Big Brexit Short" for your first clues as to what he's about! 😮
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  98. If you had a BS detector it would be twitching right now & critical thinking would be telling you to think some more.
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  99. ​ @ltmund only by name, the enacted reality was the opposite.
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  100.  @ltmund  I'm not a history lecturer, I've given you the pointer now it's your turn to put the effort in.
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  101. PPE from Oxbridge would be the certification. Senior mainstream journalists follow the same route into politics.
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  102. ​ @william_marshal because it's a fictional black hole as explained clearly in the video. A Government run by Corbyn, Milliband, Brown, Harman, Beckett, Smith, Kinnock, Foot, Callaghan or any of their predecessors would have taken one or more of the suggestions in the video & just dealt with it. Without Austerity (& the resulting AusterityDeaths). The Green's or LibDems too wouldn't be pratting about like Stoma/Reeves, they have a country to run, it would be best if they just ran it.
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  103. No, it's deliberate lies. If I stated as definite fact that your shoe size is 11 I would be lying because I don't know. Ministers compound the lie because the have the House of Commons Library, Civil Servants, the Treasury, the Bank of England & an array of other experts they can ask!
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  104. The English Civil Wars were a battle for supremacy over the whole of England, a battle between 3 factions, the Crown, Parliament & the People. The People lost quite rapidly but the rest of the battle took most of the century with cities changing sides rapidly as one faction or the other approached.
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  105. We do maintain a disrespect for authority, probably most clearly seen in people doing 80mph on the motorway but extending throughout all spheres.
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  106.  @keithparker1346  that's definitely an aspect, we also have an engineered disinterest, engineered mostly by the Press most of us choose to read or watch. There will be other aspects too but I'm not enough of a philosopher to work it out. It's probably worth having a look at what Marx had to say about it, he was the analyst of cultures.
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  107. ​ @twanderson7756 I take it you haven't seen/read Bloomberg's "the Big Brexit Short"? 😂
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  108. Because these statistics are designed for Government use they're politically expedient figures so you really have to know what you're doing to get useful information from them. For instance "Relative Poverty" is 60% of the median income (£32,300 in 2021/22, the most recent ONS figure, so £19,380) & "Absolute Poverty" is the same figure but based on the 2010/11 median (£29,400 so £17,640) adjusted for inflation (near-zero for most of that time), neither figure closely resemble poverty experienced by an individual trying to survive. "Median" is either the central figure between the highest & lowest or the central of a collection of figures (they seem to be using the latter definition) but the highest figures have been going up consistently since 2010 & we have set a new record for number of both millionaires & billionaires in most of those years while the numbers at the bottom are also increasing at an alarming pace & this is why the median is going up, not because Average Joe is getting more. To find Average Joe in the statistics we need "mode" (most common number) not "median" (central number) & this figure doesn't seem to be published. Government statistics are extremely devious & need to be interpreted by experts 😢
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  109. ​ @fburton8 I'm not an expert, I refer you to the Joseph Rowntree Foundation, Oxfam, Save The Children & similar expert groups & possibly superceding these the 2017 report of the UN Special Rapporteur on Extreme Poverty, Prof Philip Alston, in which he found 20% of the population in poverty & predicted 40% child poverty by 2021. I understand the figures are now even worse.
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  110. ​ @fburton8 "abject poverty", "destitution" & "Charles Dickens" were mentioned in Alston's report along with references to the 1945 Social Consensus.
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  111. ​ @stevo728822 only because of Planning Permission.
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  112. turned?
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  113. even the potholes which ruin your goods & increase transport costs
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  114. ​​​​ @adenwellsmith6908 "where?" "Whole of Government Accounts" – type it into your search bar! If you want it analysed start with "Reports, special reports and government responses Public Accounts Committee" & then go on to "The Institute for Fiscal Studies" or, of course, watch this channel (and actually watch the videos, don't just pause & dive headlong into the comments). 😮
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  115. ​ @william_marshal no, watch the video, the "Black Hole" is a fiction of Labour's creation. Yes, the Torys made a mess but a competent Government would clear it up immediately.
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  116. ​ @inguzwulf Reet-Smug is an excellent example of 2nd generation nouveau riche, his father made the money though JRM has expanded it through his hedgefund & other shady dealings.
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  117.  @stephenjenkins1323  there used to be hundreds of philanthropic businesses that respected their staff & communities (Cadbury's, Rowntrees, Lever Bros, Bata etc) but a combination of regulations & buyouts has made them all go away 😢
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  118.  @OneAndOnlyMe  which?
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  119. "Back"?!? He hasn't stopped! If you don't agree with him that's when you need to listen very closely & think very hard about why you disagree.
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  120. We've already seen John McDonnell lay out clearly how a real Labour party would re-nationalize national assets, he even wrote it down in a booklet. The Green Party also has a clear path to the same end. Mr Starmer should go back to his paymasters & seek a more suitable role.
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  121. Tell that the the UN Special Rapporteur on Poverty who has been here several times & issued damning reports, tell it to the people the Rapporteur reported on!
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  122. why?
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  123. ​ @1292liam he's happy being CEO of the International Rescue Committee (& doing a reasonable job of it).
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  124. That's what we're told. Reality is often different to what we're told.
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  125. perhaps we could
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  126. Fair enough. Why?
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  127. @user-lx6pk9os2d Trump is the result of an engineered cult (which cost Robert Mercer $millions), ​ @RichardJMurphy doesn't give sufficient credence to cults so missed it.
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  128. All the time a majority of people point-blank refuse to give their vote due consideration this is going to continue 😢
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  129. 11 million didn't enter illegally, look stuff up before you make yourself look f00lish again!
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  130. 😂😂😂😂😂
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  131. no
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  132. If you give the title & channel name as well as some comment about why you posted that you might get a few people to click on your link.
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  133. "ooglete"?
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  134. oubliette?
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  135. Can we afford NO State Welfare?
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  136. "difficult decisions" usually means a lot of people are going to die 😢
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  137. ​ @burner9147 exactly! 😢
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  138. ​ @andylucas1175 the Crown Jewels are not a State asset. Very little that relates to the Monarchy or the Crowns is a State asset, Buckingham Palace is the only thing I can think of immediately. Mind you, that didn't stop Blair selling off the Royal Flight (private property of Edward) or the Royal Yacht (private property of Elizabeth & Phillip).
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  139. Actually there is a people-centred party left to us & 1,841,888 people voted for it.
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  140. Did Ofgem create the regulations or did Government?
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  141. ​ @WarrenPeaceOG why? They're a huge source of revenue which we would sorely miss.
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  142. Since you have clearly read the IPCC reports perhaps you could detail some of the salient points, obviously with report & page(s) properly cited?
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  143. ​ @keithshippey230 Banks Jenkinson is long dead, that all changed with Thatcher. 😢
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  144. That's one of the more famous examples of "cut red tape" & under threat now are the regulations put in by Gordon Brown's government to prevent it happening again. 😢
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  145. 6:38 yes we have! We have the Green Party & they quadrupled their number of Seats at the last election because of it! Ok, as you say earlier, they're not shouting loud enough to get past the mainstream Media blackout but partly that's because they're not taking "donations" from big business or right-wing countries. 😮
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  146. Am I seeing a suggestion Starmer should be the Guy?
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  147. ​ @tancreddehauteville764 there's quite a mess around what's rated & what isn't, for instance sanitary towels are charged but crocodile meat isn't. It's needed tidying up for decades.
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  148. Centrist parties stand for election every time, if you choose to accept the mainstream/Establishment narrative that they don't exist that's down to you.
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  149. ​ @CurtOntheRadio I understand Neoliberalism to mean sell everything & hand control to "The Market" but politicians are power mad so they can't even get that right!
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  150. is there a problem with the phrasing?
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  151. ​ @debbiegilmour6171 actually the UK has largely destroyed its valuable economic sectors. During the Empire the cloth industry was shipped abroad & when the Empire collapsed our connection to that industry also collapsed, before that was spice trading & more recently Thatcher's pogroms against the Unions collapsed much of our industry leaving us reliant on service industries in turn leaving vast numbers of people on the dole. Shipbuilding, railway equipment, coal, steel, pottery, whole major industries are gone or nearly gone.
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  152. ​ @debbiegilmour6171 Germany's economy was harmed by WW1 but what actually wrecked it was the Treaty of Versailles which was specifically designed to ruin Germany.
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  153. ​ @debbiegilmour6171 WW2 wrecked Britain, it was rescued by the Marshall Plan.
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  154. No what's happening in Spain?
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  155. "Where is Labour going?" To the dogs! I'll watch the video now...
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  156. Benn was also against the EC/EU
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  157. Trump IS "MSM BS"! 😮😂😂😂😮
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  158. ​ @garyh1572 no, Torys have been in power for 100% of that time, Blair & Starmer only wear the rosette, they're not really Labour.
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  159. why?
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  160. Oh dear, I hope you survive your life lessons 😢
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  161. ​ @mrradman2986 "You cannot tax your way to growth" – Yes governments can! by the simple expedient of taxing stagnant money back into circulation!
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  162. What we must do is start thinking about who we vote for & the agendas they carry.
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  163. But that's totally against the Neoliberal "small government" model that Thatcher left us with!
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  164. Where are you getting "75k" from? It's not in the video.
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  165. The rest of what you say is unevidenced too.
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  166. Now how do we get MPs to see this & then take the next step into something that does work?
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  167. Your controller is wrongly set up. The problem being resolved is "islanding" whereby your feed is still live (from your panels) when the engineer comes to fix your line & gets electrocuted. Your controller can be set up to isolate the mains when the mains fails.
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  168. "CORRUPT" I'll accept but Starmer's Labour is absolutely NOT either "Marxist" or "socialist" 😂😂😂 Blair purged the Marxists & Starmer has spent his entire time purging socialists (& non-Zionist Jews).
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  169. Are you sure he's not with the American Zíonísts? There's 10 times more of them...
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  170. Why would that be your priority? Why not inequality?
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  171. Private healthcare was in place long before the NHS & has never gone away, of course its infrastructure is in place.
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  172. It took Yemen, YEMEN, less than a year to develop & fire hypersonic missiles that US/UK still haven't managed to make – the problem isn't money or skilled designers, the problem is corruption!
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  173. ​ @neilblackburn6869 which is why the right encourages poverty & maintains less than 100% employment.
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  174. "turds float to the top" comes to mind
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  175. Thanks for the inaccurate propaganda, who does it benefit? (clue: not you)
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  176. very nearly half the people did vote for Harris.
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  177. ​ @WarrenPeaceOG Barbie has propaganda drummed in from birth assuring her that Police pointing guns at her is ok...
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  178. ​ @jamesgravil9162 the grinding paste driving that was the Treaty of Versailles, something was going to happen in that period regardless of the activities of the Austrian painter. "Sanctions" currently scattered across the globe may well prove to be equally abrasive. 😢
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  179. Mexico 😢
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  180. This is a channel, his site is even more interesting.
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  181. ​ @pairedsoles2822 not true. Whilst individual people may leave their wealth cannot, it's tied up in buildings & other fixed assets.
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  182. ​@Betweoxwiteganthere is a major difference, LibDems have LDFI, the Greens don't. Please stop promoting gen0cide.
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  183. I am imagining a university lecture hall full of students presenting both witty & daft questions & all of them being logged then answered 😊
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  184. That's hardly surprising, we've had Neoliberalism for 45 years now so it's only people over 65 who have seen anything different from an adult perspective. 😢
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  185. There are many economists, each with their own models, the problem is which ones the politicians choose to follow into the abyss. Vote wisely!
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  186. Starmer's Labour have done the other thing – they have joined The Establishment! 😢
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  187. The UK was the world's supplier, each in their time, of coal, steel, tin, woven cloth & many other things. What changed is that politicians got bored with their very expensive country piles falling down holes & the air becoming unbreathable. Being British politicians they weren't about to regulate to make it safe so they shut it down! Since 1918 that's been our fault for not picking politicians who will do their job to benefit us!
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  188. 0:17 corporate and national donors! The Press has told us much about Russia, from the Brexit campaign to Boris Johnson, & Israel appears, often through Lord Cashpoint, in Registers of Members Interests right across Parliament. This, of course, is tantamount to treason & documentaries from Channel4 & Aljazeera have shown us actual treason (though nobody has been jailed).
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  189. History informs us that when people get bored of being poor we turn up in Westminster en masse & sort it out.
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  190. Income Tax was introduced in the UK in 1799, prior to that ALL taxes were wealth taxes! Income Tax was a short-term measure specifically to pay for fighting Napoleon & it was stopped immediately the war was over. It was re-introduced in 1860 & is re-introduced every year since because it's a temporary tax -- the basis of British tax is wealth taxes.
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  191. Professor Richard Murphy is employed by a university -- he's not well paid!
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  192. Companies don't move to Eire for tax reasons, they do it because Eire is in the EU & because it has easier regulations! If they only want less tax they go to the Isle of Man, Channel Islands or the British Overseas Territories (most famously the Caymans).
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  193. You're wrong on every point but I can't be bothered with you.
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  194. You had the option to vote for Stein yet you voted for the uniparty the same as all but 8% of your compatriots 😢
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  195. why?
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  196. Who do you work for, Tufton Street or the MSM? 😂
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  197. If you want PR voting you have to vote for an MP that supports it & won't be whipped by a party that doesn't.
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  198. I'm sure they would love to pay their fair share, since Blair they've been paying well over 80% & with no allowances.
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  199. The electorate has already chosen Reform Ltd as the successor to the Tories. 15% vote share. The 4 seats will resolve into a conventional number as voters decide where to vote.
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  200. That's the joy of the House of Lords – 850 experts in a huge range of fields with enough humility that they call in panels of experts to discuss things with as a matter of routine procedure.
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  201. ​ @inevski who?
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  202. A return to the 1948 model would halve the bill, we don't need more acreage of offices than of wards!
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  203. does that include affordable to heat? That's what this video is about!
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  204. ​ @rodneyfungus8249 HMRC staffing was severely reduced to halt that, they now only go after poor people because it's easier 😢
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  205. For a single person household anything less than £29,500 a year, before tax, counts as low pay. By your metrics 1 in 3 low-paid people are outside your category.
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  206. obviously not but we can only be in one place at a time
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  207. "Social Media" doesn't come up with ideas by itself, somebody put those ideas there & somebody spread them.
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  208. You need to think very carefully about where you're getting your ideas from because he's right.
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  209. there is plenty of scope for more 😢
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  210. Do you like roads? Opening up roads for public use is a socialist idea.
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  211. Some changes will take the unanimity of a Party to get through Parliament, at least till it gets established. Fortunately we have the Greens, now all we have to do is get people voting for them. Individual MPs will be bought up quicker than the current party-based crop.
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  212. I take it you haven't heard of their book Brittania Unchained? The pair of them, as well as the other co-authors & the Tufton Street gang they're part of, are absolute nutcases intent on using hedgefunds to fill their own bank accounts by milking crash after crash. William Rees-Mogg (the current Rees-Mogg's father) laid out the ethos behind it. They're treating our country as a cash cow & milking us dry!
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  213. ​ @davidmcculloch8490 both
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  214. He uses the phrase but he certainly didn't coin it!
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  215. Yes that is exactly the government's responsibility! 😮
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  216. ​ @tlangdon12 vote for A-holes, get A-holes 😢
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  217. Britain had open borders till 1971
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  218. Yes but only because we refuse to elect a decent Parliament. We have plenty of options that we simply ignore 😢
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  219. they're not allowed to 😂
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  220. The regulators are themselves regulated by politicians.
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  221. how is it not possible?
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  222. why can ISAs not invest in UK wholesalers or actual installations?
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  223. They've had access for years 😂😂😂
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  224. Yes but you've got to admit since Farage made millions of Brexit his clothes are very good quality 😂
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  225. ​ @RobinHarris-nf4yv 😂😂😂😂
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  226. Have you or anyone you know ever voted for that outcome?
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  227. It's called Neoliberalism & it was brought in by Margaret Thatcher after a model used by the infamous Chilean dictator General Pinochet.
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  228. why?
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  229. ​ @nickbarton3191 both solar panels & lithium batteries last 25 years before degrading to 80%, if you over-specify initially it's thought they can still be giving useful service after 50 years (they haven't been around long enough to prove the 50 years claim though).
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  230. ​ @nickbarton3191 solar panels are now cheaper than roof tiles -- if your roof needs replacing you can make a saving & add an income stream at the same time.
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  231. Early adopters did, then Government withdrew the incentives.
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  232. "Stoma" – an uncontrolled poo hole – what an appropriate renaming of Starmer. Thank you, you actually made me laugh out loud for the first time in far too long, thank you. 😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂
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  233. Yes there were but the stories used to put people off buying newspapers so they weren't reported, now people like reading about gore so they're reported. The world hasn't changed, just the way newspapers report it. Palestine is the most obvious example, you've heard about it every day for 16 months but in reality it's been the same for more than a century.
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  234. Can someone get Rachel from accounts to watch this, please?
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  235. There was under the Blair/Brown Government, the Torys cancelled it. Since then the electorate has refused to vote Green or Corbyn.
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  236. ​ @Ghengiskhansmum solar panels have always just needed visible light, what's changed is the amount of that light that gets converted to electricity.
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  237. explain
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  238. 1) "rotating mass" isn't "baseload". 2) the National Grid announced several years ago (in a discussion of integration of renewables) they don't need baseload supply.
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  239. ​ @michaelrch there is no need to be rude to your host
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  240. That would be an interesting collaboration!
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  241. People quite like paying a fair tax for fair services, it's easily understood (in principle) & grants a comfortable environment to live in when properly done.
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  242. He rules his party, his party controls both House & Senate...
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  243. 2. has happened, 3. & 4. are happening
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  244. ​ @loulou-783 and the piles of bodies on the streets 😢
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  245. The Monarchy is an elaborate fiction which has been maintained since the Restoration of the Monarchy in 1660
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  246. Who do you work for, Tufton Street or the Media? 😂😂😂
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  247. Changing taxes IS reforming the economy muppet!
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  248. ​ @jonathanlake6053 the government chooses who to tax, the last government chose to tax those who can't pay & they chose to give money to those who can easily pay.
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  249. Vote wisely!
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  250. Try again, Trump admires the "strong man" regardless of the regime they preside over.
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  251. ​ @MyKharli the 2016 & ongoing Brexit & Trump cults are the work of Canadian hedgefund billionaire Robert (& now his daughter Rebekah) Mercer, his tool AggregateIQ (Cambridge Analytica) & his minion Steve Bannon (who has been seen fomenting the right wing across the EU) ably assisted by Russian propaganda & Wagner's St Petersburg "troll farm/factory".
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  252. 😂😂😂
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  253. ​ @snowiecat456 "we will support you"!?! 😂 Carla Denyer and Adrian Ramsay have been in full view since October 2021 & their party since 1984, Arthur Scargill & his party have been available since 1996, do you need a longer list of candidates you have completely ignored?
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  254. That's because after a century of open voting we still haven't learnt how to vote! Vote for an A-hole, get an A-hole!
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  255. and do what with him?
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  256. BS
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  257. The Police not doing their job is not a problem of immigration it's a problem of the Police not doing their job. There are many reasons for that, all to do with the Government. The one that was in the news for a couple of years was the Government culling 20,000 officers but that was part of a general extreme underfunding that went across all public services, including the enforcement necessary to keep Police doing their jobs & massive cuts to the Justice service which mean that on the rare occasion the Police do still catch a criminal nothing is done about it.
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  258. Immigrants from the specific countries you mention actually do improve the housing situation because their culture is that they build their own houses so when the megacorporations who control building think the market is right to build a few houses these immigrants are there with the skills to actually do the jobs. (English builders have wandered off to Dubai, Germany, Emirates etc where they pay decent wages & are actually building things).
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  259. ​ @LeicesterMike ísrel have been power brokers in Westminster for at least a century without spending much money.
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  260. ​ @Ironwalley89 "getting"?
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  261. So @archvaldor, did you vote for Jill Stein?
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  262. ​ @Ironwalley89 he's appointed at least one of the "Disinformation Dozen" so expect much worse 😢
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  263. @mishapurser4439 the "hard left" does not exist in UK politics, don't mistake the shift in the Overton Window for a redefinition of "left" & "right". "Left" is still "for the people" & "Right" is still "for business", all UK parties recognize that "business" is a required part of the economy & don't seek to take more than the "natural monopolies" into State control.
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  264. ​ @JohnPark-xf2gq *perfect - "prefect" is something entirely different.
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  265. Your parties are filled with ídíots, why wouldn't ours be too?
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  266. Do you have proposals for achieving that?
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  267. Just as plausible an idea is teaching the entire electorate how to vote. No, I have no proposals how to achieve that either.
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  268. ...and yet we're heading deeper into dystopia 😢
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  269. ​ @Contextualiser16-tn8nd the legal tool we have is "Misconduct In Public Office" which risks a minimum £4million per attempt. We saw the case against Johnson thrown out by a bent Judge after the money had been spent & the watchdog just let it go. No, legal channels have proven unusable, this leaves us with the traditional "pitchforks & firebrands" approach which we're not yet ready for. Perhaps if another million are killed by government policies?
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  270. You've got that completely muddled up! 😂
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  271. Ensuring people can afford to feed new children might help too.
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  272. ...but taking an educated guess can sometimes avoid nasty surprises.
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  273. That's a whole matrix of conversations! I'm not prepared to type in a whole screed only to have youtube delete it & I expect many others are the same so can you explore this in an interview with someone informed & intelligent, please?
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  274. Yes, what a scam that was! All the reporting at the time implied there was going to be a series of votes for different PR schemes but we only ended up with one vote & that for pretty much the worst possible scheme!
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  275. Giving heed or credence to a membership is not a required part of a political party (as Starmer ably demonstrates) all that's required is sufficient funding to stand candidates at elections. Not exactly democratic but it's what we've got.
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  276. Have you ever read the novel "Make room, make room" or even the movie derived from it, "Soylent Green"?...
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  277. Our currently-minimal UK solar installation is producing nearly one GigaWatt right at this minute, 3% land coverage will provide for ALL our current electricity needs, add in all the others you mention & we have a massive surfeit (more than enough to burn out our interconnectors into Europe).
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  278. Farage & Trump are cults, both driven to an extent by Cambridge Analytica & their successors, this is not normal politics, sense makes little difference. 😢
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  279. I refer you to the Oxford English Dictionary.
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  280. There aren't any "illegals"! Internal Law requires that we take in refugees but Government stopped all legal routes to get here & stopped them applying for asylum in Embassies around the world. It's the Government who are breaking the law not the refugees! Even when they do get here we send 80% away again. No, this is a scam to funnel our money to Tory "donors" who own derelict & condemned "hotels" but still want to rent them out.
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  281. 0:27 why are you putting "Labour" & "thinking" in the same sentence?
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  282. Gary's Economics youtube channel has things to say about one aspect of this.
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  283. Apparently Torsten Bell's twin brother has been brought in to oversee "Rachel from Accounts".
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  284. ​ @bulltraderpt is your twattish comment special for youtube or are you always like that?
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  285. The ghettos won't be chartered, they'll be small anarchies into which the charter-city 'police' will occasionally make armed forays.
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  286. You're conflating independent concepts. The concept of the corporation didn't hold till Parliament executed the first King Charles & won the English Civil Wars. (The other combatant group was the People who also lost).
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  287. ​ @skip181sg "why?" Because you didn't fully state your case. What are we supposed to do other than extrapolate?
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  288. ​ @manoo422 sorry to have to tell you but it's you that's acting the sheep, lemming even 😢
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  289. The leading cause of bankruptcy in USA is the "healthcare" system.
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  290. Neoliberalism, the governing ethos of many Western Parliaments since Thatcher brought it over from Chile's Pinochet 45 years ago 😢 It's a particular style of vindictive laziness you would expect from a reviled dictator like Pinochet.
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  291. ​ @physiocrat7143 don't blame incompetence where greed & corruption are a better fit.
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  292. ​ @ltmund Labour was that new party a century ago but now we have the Greens
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  293. ​ @ltmund their plans look significant to me! 😮
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  294. The parties have no need to empathize with the people while the people believe that the 2 Establishment parties are the only option. 😢
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  295. ​ @mtrhodesy that would depend on the wording & administration of the Charter.
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  296. Well that's half the story, the other half is around how electricity & its fuels are bought & sold.
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  297. I had to look it up so to save anyone else the bother or to pique their interest -- "Theranos Defunct American privately held health-technology company Theranos Inc. was an American privately held corporation that was touted as a breakthrough health technology company." -- Wikipedia
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  298. ​ @JupiterThunder a 20p tax cut won't go far towards a £million injection (& they already exist).
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  299. ​ @robinbeckford the party which was pro- business to the extent that it increased inequality to the highest level in centuries & killed a million citizens with its policies can reasonably be taken as "far right" & then there's Reform Ltd...
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  300. ​ @paulgibbons2320 I'm fairly sure the OP knows what issues they do or don't have 😮
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  301. ​ @paulgibbons2320 I'm fairly sure the OP knows what issues they do or don't have!
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  302. You seem to be suggesting that it's ok to lie if it's "only political"?!? I put it to you that there's a million or more dead people in Iraq whose families might have a different opinion & another million in Britain 😢
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  303. We had that option just a few weeks ago, the internet was flooded with warnings about Sir Keith Stoma & his party while the Green Party's offering went totally unchallenged. So what did people do? They went with what they knew beyond doubt was going to be bad & ignored the good yet again 😢
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  304. Google & Palantir are the current recipients
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