Comments by "Greg Greg" (@SlowhandGreg) on "'Net Zero NUTCASES' to end to housing struggles?: Reform MP chuckles at Labour's new towns plan" video.

Labour's worker regulation policy will reduce demand for legal migration as will their economic policy If you don't regulate and invest in your domestic workforce as the Cons don't you need to import skills
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@PeteH0121 40% of people on benefit are in work, and we spent 20 billion on housing support last year as we spiral ever closer to a low wage underclass living in poverty conditions having to be subsidesd by the state. There isn't enough affordable housing and wages are too low most of this the result of Austerity and a lack of investment
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A more managed economy and tighter worker regulation will reduce legal migration. Legal migration is a feature not a bug of Con economic policy
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How about build them in factories and make them affordable
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You can build good quality homes in a factory these days for onside assembly
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@DM-ki1bs net zero means it cost you bugg3r all to heat your home, stations like this campaign against it because there tied to the fossil lobby Or Maybe Ben is just stupid
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@christopherckarkson5605 net zero makes energy cheaper, renewable is the cheapest on the grid since 2019 and to run them effectively you need mass storage and smart tech to time shift demand.
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 @DilbertWhitehead it's a better idea than the hotchpotch of building we currently have and would avoid current issues like creating ringroads through built up areas
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@DilbertWhitehead There's plenty of space on it the issue is the South East and London and lack of investment in transport, housing and infrastructure nimby, boomer by any chance?
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@DilbertWhitehead we have a million over 50 renting coming up to pension age, the government spends 20 billion on housing support, multiple generations are stuck renting with no possibility of having a secure home to start a family and a deliberate government policy to restrict supply and not invest in transport has sent house prices soaring by 66% in the last 14 years while wages stagnated. People's lives are being destroyed and your worrying about a view get a reality check
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@DilbertWhitehead You were told leaving the EU would increase illegal migration you claimed project Fear. You were told loosing FOM would vastly increase legal migration and again claimed project fear. If you want to lower legal and illegal migration how about campaigning to rejoin the EU and take some responsibility for the sh1tsh0w you've put the country in?
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@DilbertWhitehead from 2018 Historic examples include Britain’s decision to end the unrestricted entry of Commonwealth subjects in the 1960s, Germany’s experience with admitting temporary “guest workers” from the 1960s, and the US ending its labour program for Mexican workers in 1965. Drawing lessons from those experiences, the SMF predicted that ending EU freedom of movement and restricting EU nationals’ right to enter and stay in Britain for work will have precisely the opposite effect on immigration patterns to the one many Brexit supporters say they want.
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@arkroyalrifemoonbasealpha6101 how are you going to do that given it's driven by thatcherite economic policy?
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We're short of 5 million homes so rather than slag off the proposal what's your solution?
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@denzel270 you can't stop immigration its the result of the right's economic policy
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@bwilliams572 What you've put is not true we were not a euro currency. And The IMF and Eurozone abandoned Austerity in 2012 exceptions were Greece who didn't reform it's economy
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@bwilliams572 I'd also add our debt wasn't very big at 62% post banking bail out it was always a political choice by the government.
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Inappropriate spending cuts could "strangle" growth, so austerity measures should be tailor-made by each country, the head of the IMF warns The paper on which Osborne's Austerity was based on work by economists Rogoff and Reinhart which was widely debunked by 2013 the fiscal effect of debt especially with zero % interest rates just didn't add up so much so Austerity became an ideology rather than data driven one that the rest of the world moved on from but we ended up stuck in a time warp in because our MSM was so right leaning and Osborne didn't want to admit he was wrong so leaned back on small state waffle. Instead of an economic multiplier of 0.5 as predicted by the OBR the real economic multiplier was 1.6 shrinking our economy by 2% in real terms by 2013
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@bwilliams572 this wasn't applicable we were not in the Eurozone and were no longer tied to the exchange rate mechanism so were free to pursue QE and the sale of our own Gilts. By 2016 our debt had risen to 82% and by 2019 92% the only thing the EU did was tell Osborne he was stupid for pursuing Austerity in 2012 it wasn't working and the IMF told him the same in 2013.
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@bwilliams572 again your talking about something that was unenforceable in the UK as we had our own currency, the way the EU controlled members spending and deficits was through controlling the issue of Eurobonds. Quote The European debt crisis, often also referred to as the eurozone crisis or the European sovereign debt crisis, was a multi-year debt crisis that took place in the European Union (EU) from 2009 until the mid to late 2010s. Several eurozone member states (Greece, Portugal, Ireland, Spain, and Cyprus) were unable to repay or refinance their government debt or to bail out over-indebted banks under their national supervision without the assistance of third parties like other eurozone countries, the European Central Bank (ECB), or the International Monetary Fund (IMF)
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