Comments by "Mark Welch" (@markwelch3564) on "GENERAL ELECTION: As Rishi Sunak buckles - who will march to Number 10? | Pod Save The UK" video.

 @sebastiang7394 that said, snarks may interpret it as Rishi signalling where he intends to live after the election 😝
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 @oitoitoi1 Reform loyalists are already in government - they just stood as Conservatives to get elected
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I disagree that it's wasted. It won't elect an MP, but a growing Green vote share helps shift the national conversation We need to break the vicious circle of people not voting Green because Green can't win, and we only do that by voting so people see Green as a growing party that could be viable in the near future 🙂
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@GrowYourOwnLife that's fair - if my MP was someone like Braverman I'd be all over tactical voting! Here, it's a corporate Starmerite or a careerist Cameronite. Neither scares or thrills me so I'm voting Green I could be convinced to vote Labour tactically, if there's a comitment from tactical voting people to support the Greens in Green marginals. So far, I'm getting the opposite message from big names in the tactical voting movement though 🙁
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 @chriselliott726 but is he competent, or is he good at doing a performance that superficially projects it?
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@chriselliott726 there's already some worrying signs. Labour are asserting they won't raise taxes (outside of the very specific and narrow private schools and non-doms, which aren't big-money changes). They want to invest. They won't borrow It all comes down to often repeated promises of growth, but to fix the country while not raising any more taxes, that growth is going to have to be unprecedented I have learned to be cautious around people who bet their entire plan on unlikely odds occurring. I see hard times and deep disappointments ahead 🙁
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@chriselliott726 I would do it through regulation first, especially for water Hold them accountable to reasonable standards and see if they stick around If they do, privatisation gets to continue, but my guess is they'll fold and cut their losses. Either way we get the water infrastructure we deserve
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@chriselliott726 I don't want to regulate them out of existence, but do want to regulate them tightly enough to prevent the vast wealth extraction we're currently seeing I suspect the current owners would quit rather than tackle the difficult challenges of fixing their own mess, but I won't be an ideological purist and insist on nationalisation. Results are more important than ideological point scoring 🙂
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