Comments by "Greg Greg" (@SlowhandGreg) on "GBNews" channel.

  1. They won't but if the issue is right wing economic policy that needs a constant supply of migrant Labour why will voting for a Party that promises the same economic model but by the power of magic Unicorns doesn't need the migrant Labour? If you want lower immigration you need to change the tax model increase taxes and spend it on training the domestic workforce as well as other infrastructure spending
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  2. A cup of cold sick is more popular than Sunak it's not a high bar
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  3. Why would anyone vote Reform thier economic policies would Tank the economy even further?
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  4.  @brianholmes849  the Cons sold you out your best bet is to have a robust protocol and an Indipendant assembly that considers themselves NI otherwise if they keep this shitshow up then unfication will just keep cropping up.
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  5. If the world switches to renewables it will save trillions of dollars as well as reduce polution across the globe. There are numerous studies out there as wind and solar have been the cheapest on the grid since 2019 We spend huge sums subsidising fossil extraction and even more on environmental clean up Also 40% of shipping is dedicated to moving fossil fuel around
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  6.  @stevejones2310  the thing with renewable energy is you need the small scale distributed as well as major plant it spells the death of the huge multicorprations who will fight tooth and nail to maintain there fossil profits
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  7.  @bobjames6622  you can run a passive house entirely off solar and a powerbank with minimal grid pull. I could build a wind turbine from an old washing machine motor and some plastic pipe don't be stupid think these things through
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  8.  @seanhuds7351  why has it been allowed to grow like this higher numbers where processed during the Iraq war is sheer utter incompetence
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  9.  @rich8305  of course he's serious who wants to keep paying 8 billion for zero results
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  10. Why do you delude yourself that there is more to it than this were a 3rd country having to obey 3rd country rules to trade to and from the EU which is 20 miles away with a border in the channel and a border down the Irish sea.
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  11. In what way? There economic policies are the same as Liz Truss and will tank the markets and they were all in on leaving the EU which has tripled migration
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  12. why would you get even more with Labour it makes no economic or political sense
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  13. From Osborne to H unt successive Tory Chancellors have made the wrong call at every opportunity Buildings are literally falling down around us Cancelling a landmark infrastructure project to then divert the money to fill potholes in London just about sums up The Tories tenure
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  14. Yea like who'd vote for endless delays to freight thousands of pages of documentation which cost GB business 7.5 billion plus PA, have to buy new computer systems to deal with the endless VAT (4 -> 24+) codes the 60% limit on origin of goods that also needs a new computer system to track components origin plus UKCA on the horizon so more money down the toilet in dual certification. Come on NI step up to the plate and suffer like your ex GB buddies ;) don't make Frostie and Bozo look like complete clowns
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  15. ​ @Si_Mondo our credit rating was going down no one wanted to lend us 50+ billion for tax cuts for the wealthy which did fk all to boost economic growth
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  16.  @benstern310  Gammon is a pejorative popularised in British political culture since around 2012. The term refers in particular to the colour of a person's flushed face when expressing their strong opinions
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  17.  @Jezza_One  Scotland 92% renewable Norway 93% renewable Danemark 60% renewable not seen any reports on any of those countries having wide ranging power cuts? Strange maybe it's a conspiracy? What Danemark and Norway have in common is 2% inflation fancy that is it a coincidence there not getting fleeced on gas prices ?
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  18. Even more money from your wage packets as they collapse the economy with Truss style policies and collapse pension funds
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  19. There paying no tax There is a tax break on exploration and tax credits of up to 75 billion to clean up Disused and spent North Sea Rigs and infrastructure Wind energy is 17% part of the UK mix it is the cheapest form of energy on the market and has been since 2019 at the gas price peak it was 12.5 x cheaper it is still cheaper by x 3 to crack hydrogen gas from water with surplus Wind energy than the cost of natural gas you can run an 20/80 mix on current gas infrastructure of Hydrogen to NG reducing consumption by a fifth. Why do we not do this simples the fossil lobby distributed energy production breaks the profit model of large global corporations
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  20.  @Petal4822  what sovereignty we have lost tons leaving gained non
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  21. And I thought we couldn't get any lower With Truss and Johnson
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  22. 8 years on with demographic changes alone the Vote would be remain 55% that doesn't take into account the economic train wreck that it is You've had your chance time to admit you were wrong
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  23. So services were funded tax was lower and we had economic growth last time Labour in
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  24. GBN is a propaganda channel for billionaire friendly policies
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  25. He doesn't have a clue what he's talking about You can't cut taxes we have a debt to gdp ratio of > 100% and the people buying Gilts think the Brexit Ultra's are talking out of their arse over growth Before anyone starts banging on about Labour here are some facts 2010 gdp ratio 62% 2019 gdp ratio 92% due to the Cameron corporate tax cuts which didn't stimulate growth and went straight on the uk credit card 2023 we have less people in full time employment than in 2019 the economy has shrunk in real terms since then accounting for inflation economists predict it should be +10% which = around 80 billion in lost tax revenues if we where still in the single market and had FOM
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  26. Fossil companies don't want a free market, the get 10's of billions in subsidies from the UK alone
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  27. The other candidates are as bad or worse
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  28. Renewable energy is cheaper has been since 2019 if we had more of it our bills would be lower by a LOT
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  29. Brexit is done fishing is what it is because we're a third country outside the Single Market NI have it minted with free access to the single market and GB the barriers that GB exporters to NI suffer are the same as exporting to any part of the single market
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  30. I think they should stop being so blinkered and biased and put some Labour, Green & Lib-Dem people on who can point out the complete sham that is the Reform platform
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  31. its 0.25% its just a 300 million pound show pony
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  32. since 2016 our economic decline due to the Brexit vote and subsequent policies is around 1 trillion in GDP That includes projected investment actual losses currency devaluation reduced trade and reduced output Since we left the EU the GDP of the EU has expanded by more than our GDP removal for the total (3.13 trillion USD) Germany since 2016 to now earn 25-30% more in average wages Whichever way you cut it Brexit has been a complete economic disaster which just keeps screwing our economy harder and harder 2010 GDP = 2.491 trillion 2023 GDB = 3.131 trillion 2010 Figure adjusted for inflation would be 3.645 trillion we are 500 billion worse off than in 2010 thank you Tories and your lying arsewipe policies for making us poorer
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  33. what you were sold was always a political solution to an unsolvable problem the economy was always going to shrink and quickly when we left the single market. The intention was a deregulated Singapore on Thames sweeping up all the European trade the EU shot that one dead the day after the vote in 2016 what we've ended up with is Argentina on the Channel
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  34.  @andrew30m  at 33% tax base that's 33 billion in lost taxes we have to foot the bill for
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  35. and we have low unemployment so they've all gone to other jobs Estimated vacancies across GB is 1.2 million
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  36. Caps won't affect current savers
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  37. There not supposed too what do you think Sunak's budget was designed to do but crush inflation by screwing the people at the bottom and middle this is a feature not a bug of Supply Side Economic policy (hint taxes are low at the top and for business) Why is supply-side economics controversial? Opponents of supply-side economics argue that rather than increasing revenue for the government, lowering taxes will instead increase the deficit. As a result, the government will have to cut programs or raise other taxes to make up for this shortfall, unless it wishes to run a permanent deficit.
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  38. So you want unelected civil servants changing UK law so much for sovereignty
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  39. The question has to be why Tory policy only helps the wealthy are you rich?
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  40. ​ @CB-hv2dg don't forget the lies and the cover up
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  41. We've implemented Brexit if they did it properly the country would grind to a halt because of import checks The more you diverge standards the more paperwork and additional costs you have businesses want divergence like a hole in the head
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  42.  @bimmeroo0906  the only thing agreed by it was leaving the EU that could mean a full Norway to no deal The version that is most extreme you wouldn't want if you got it it would make a small number of people very rich while 90% grubbed around in poverty and crush the economy outside London even harder than Thatcher did in the 80s
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  43. If you have record inflation of course the headline figure goes up. quote from the ONS Total goods exports fell by £0.1 billion (0.3%) in October 2023, after the effect of inflation is removed. Exports to the EU decreased by £0.9 billion (7.0%) Brexit checks, paperwork and red tape costs 10's of billions and also discourage small businesses from trading because its too hard. Were also paying tariffs on a lot of goods.
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  44. They can't enact any cuts because there still borrowing 130 billion a year its just theatre
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  45. Wearing the right sort of mask reduces the spread of infection The issue was always one of not enough medical capacity to cope with mass infection as was clearly demonstrated in Northern Italy and New York even Swedens light touch reinforces that general medical view.
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  46. This is it it won't get any better just worse. 99% of the regulations are there for workers companies benefits such as the work time directive, common standards on food to enable export/import Companies don't want the regulations scrapped it just creates even more paperwork
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  47.  @carlad2640  I'm retired and have the time to give you a free economics history lesson. During the Thatcher/Reagan era both changed from Keynesian demand side to Supply Side economics. This included globalisation and the use of supply side labour to boost GDP. To get elected both Clinton and Blair had to shift to what was called the new NeoLiberal consensus as Kinnock on a Keynesian economic platform had lost to Major in the previous election. So Labour didn't roll back what Thatcher had started and were now at the end of a 50 year cycle where the economic model is now shrinking the UK economy.
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  48. It was all political theatre to get you angry
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  49. ​ @West-End they can join the army at 16 Its been labour policy for over a decade
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  50. Narrr you still got Tory bandit economics
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