Comments by "Greg Greg" (@SlowhandGreg) on "The New Statesman" channel.

  1. If you pump 700 billion into the economy which then trickles up during the pandemic it would be a good idea if you taxed it because the huge increase in money supply has a huge impact on inflation You need a wealth tax or this will keep spiraling Quote Luxury goods boom in Britain as super-rich youngsters buck the recession Rich kids fuel sales of brands such as Burberry, Louis Vuitton and Gucci They’re young, rich and mortgage-free, and the scions of the 1% are having a roaring twenties. Despite the economic gloom currently shrouding the UK and many other western countries, sales of luxury brands have been booming and growing numbers of buyers are young adults. Swiss watches, Louis Vuitton trainers, rare Birkin bags and 81-year-old whiskies are among the products that are fuelling impressive growth in the bottom lines of luxury brands such as LVMH, Burberry and Kering.
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  2. Plan? First its illegal under the Convention for Human Rights Second that Convention underwrites the Good Friday agreement so this nonsense of leaving it is a non starter
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  3. The IMF put out a paper on wealth tax last September, the media is mostly right wing owned and we don't tend to get an full and Frank discussion on economics
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  4. The problem is the 1st past the post system the Cameron government had 36% both in 2010 & 15 setting the seeds for the current crisis. The Thatcher years were round 40% and the Conservative base is 50+ who are the highest voting demographic. I go out canvassing and trying to get young voters out is a mare even after Sunak dumped on them completely in the last budget.
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  5. ​ @totalvoid6234 give it a rest are you a Tory political payed blogger your all over this comment board spewing bile
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  6. The headline figure became the talking point not the policies
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  7.  @annapachaclarke2392  So what your saying is removing 1 million workers from the economy erecting trade barriers with our closest trading partners cutting off export expansion for hundreds of thousands of SME's and cratering investment since 2016 has no economic effect? Anyway whatever Watch this from the Financial Times why do you think the Markets went Ape when Truss's budget landed? "The Brexit effect: how leaving the EU hit the UK | FT Film"
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  8. If you rip out decades of trickle down policies and tax breaks then there's enough to get started with in the next 5 years there's 100 billion in fossil subsidies in various budgets 2 billion yer on year millionaire's tax break 2.8 billion spent on management consultants we need realignment true and part of ripping out trickle down means slicing the pie onto asset wealth
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  9.  @iainprendergast8311  what's the difference between a left wing populist and a right wing populist Nothing They both promise the earth and deliver absolutely nothing if Corbyn had a majority of say 2/3 in 2017 he would have tried to implement a radical agenda and hit a brick wall the pound would have fallen and the Gilt market would have started to collapse same as happened to Truss. He gets rejected after 6 weeks what happens a new election chaos and Labour locked out of power for another decade or he's replaced and bitter infighting in the Labour party.
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  10. Osborne is a hard right Thatcherite Austerity Raised VAT Lowered Corporation tax ( which they spent on share buy backs) Small state
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  11. its their hard right Thatcherite economic policies + Austerity and it screwing over immigration as well ex Osborne stopped Nursing Bursary in 2010 as part of Austerity, numbers doing nursing fell because it was rolled into tuition fees now in 2023 we have a nursing shortage are out the EU so a Nigerian Nurse comes in to take her place brings Hubby and 2 kids.
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  12. They've spent 14 years on infighting and will spend the next 5 years on infighting
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  13. ​ @totalvoid6234 what worse? Fighting for removal of the death penalty great job I say
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  14. Religion doesn't tell you to be bigoted hiding behind it and using it as a shield is not acceptable
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  15. UKIP lite
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  16. I've always voted Lib-Dem or Liberal even with the sh@t stain of the 2010 deal because a Tory is 100 x worse and the Lab candidate has no chance in my constituency. They have 2 policies I support closer ties to Europe and PR the Tories have non
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  17. Poll of Polls (aggregates all the polls) Labour 44% Conservative 29% Lib-Dem 11% Green 6% Reform 6% Been steady for a while the locals looked to be tactical voting at a huge scale anyone but a Tory
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  18. Pay and capital spending One key approach during the austerity years was keeping public sector pay low while cutting staff and expecting them to work harder. By 2018, police numbers had dropped by 21,000 and the prison service lost 26.6% of its staff between 2010 and 2015. Austerity is coming to bite the Con's hard saving a £1 in 2010 - 2015 will costs thousands to reverse the damage that was done
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  19. I dunno the Tories p1ss billions away on trickle down cr*p I could raise 40-50 billion just by pulling some of the most egregious stuff out of their. 1st port of call is people like Sunak paying 21p on the £ then there's the likes of Mone how is it legal to fulfil a contract and have all your profits siphoned offshore in a tax vehicle? Also why is it fair that a detached in Burnley worth 250k pays more council tax than an 8 million terrace in Mayfair?
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  20.  @piccalillipit9211  there are decent people in politics the Tory client media have expended an inordinate amount of energy in trying to drag everyone down to thier squalid level. Exhibit 1 daily mail running 10 days straight Starmer beer in hand non story Exhibit 2 the express claiming Starmer was sat on 10 million pounds worth of land (bought by him for his parents to run a donkey sanctuary in their retirment) Loads of stories on Rayner And They even eat thier own when they step out of line on what they want
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  21. Fun fact Areas of England with increased outsourcing of NHS services have more deaths of people with treatable conditions From an economics study aggregating NHS data across England and Wales
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  22. why is that he public sector needs extra investment to improve UK productivity
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  23. Starmer has had a big hand in selecting a lot of the new MP's given the way the Tories are imploding his majority will be huge
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  24. The Tories p1ss billions away on trickle down cr*p I could raise 40-50 billion just by pulling some of the most egregious stuff out of their. 1st port of call is people like Sunak paying 21p on the £ then there's the likes of Mone how is it legal to fulfil a contract and have all your profits siphoned offshore in a tax vehicle? Also why is it fair that a detached in Burnley worth 250k pays more council tax than an 8 million terrace in Mayfair?
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  25.  @tonyb9735  I vote tactically all the time never had my vote count aside from at Council level. All I want now is to see the Tories reduced to 3rd party status not even be the official opposition given the amount of damage they have done to this country
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  26. Sunak is about as good as the Tories have got at the moment and Starmer isn't seen as a radical Leftie 60/70% of the electorate are from center left to centre right People don't want hard left or hard right
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  27. If you look at Sunak's last budget he's increasing the tax base from 33% to 36/7% there was around 20 billion in trickle down policies alone in it and where at 99% debt to GDP and out the EU for quite a while. As for not changing much you can keep the same tax base figure and change its makeup + reduce a lot of waste through outsourcing and other Tory pet projects. What you can't do at the moment is borrow much why are people so anti a centre left agenda that doesn't cripple the economy any more than it already is?
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  28. Labour have a few policies I support Lib-Dems have a few policies I support The Tories have ZERO + a load of Policies I actually detest My vote will go to the party most likely to kick the Tories out for what they have done to this country I physically detest everything they stand for
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  29. ULEZ isn't a green policy it's public health The biggest concern with it is public transport if you want better air quality you need less cars period
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  30. he's mildly competent after the Osbourne mould the issue will be rising cost of living and negative growth the Conservatives are philosophically unable to deal with either
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  31. what kicked the last round of bigot xenophobia was Cameron/Osbourne deliberately not regulating the emerging GIG economy which the Companies took advantage of by importing eastern European workers to things like Uber we had a sudden expansion in millions often supplanting established UK jobs. The workers paid very little tax and the vulture companies offshored all the profits. There is a fundamental problem running a supply side trickle down economy you need an unlimited supply side labour pool to keep wages down
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  32. There going to go batsh1t The problem being they purged the moderates and people like Truss Leaky Sue are in safe seats
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  33. Why? The mess were in isn't just the fault of the current bunch its the end result of Thatcherism, while she could use assert stripping oil money globalization and giving away council houses to look vaguely economically competent selling out the future only goes so far? The water crisis - Thatcher The council housing crisis (20 billion spent on housing support bankrupting councils) - Thatcher The energy crisis - Thatcher
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  34. its their hard right Thatcherite economic policies + Austerity and it screwing over immigration as well ex Osborne stopped Nursing Bursary in 2010 as part of Austerity, numbers doing nursing fell because it was rolled into tuition fees now in 2023 we have a nursing shortage are out the EU so a Nigerian Nurse comes in to take her place brings Hubby and 2 kids.
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  35. They've put forward an economic stance under Rachael Reeve "The Everyday Economy" Its a million miles from Thatcherism and low taxes for the top They've put forward a stance on Brexit which is more alignment with the EU to vastly reduce the paperwork crippling business a Veterinary deal alone would sort out the NI protocol And a green new deal to move from fossil (Norway has 93% renewable and 3% inflation)
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  36. They did at the Locals
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  37. Her latest speech moves us away from globalism to a more sustainable model. The issue isn't GDP it's GDP per capita which has shrunk from 50k in 2010 to 45k now, reasons lack of government investment in social and physical infrastructure.
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  38. This is a sample from Abbot Labour MP Diane Abbott has said the UK and US are responsible for any breakout of conflict in Ukraine Diane Abbott: Keir Starmer's 'deranged' Nato support risks 'catastrophe' in Ukraine Even as a Labour supporter and member if she were my MP I couldn't vote for her and why I have no time for Corbyn and his peacenik lackeys, my Father came here during the war via a Russian Gulag he is Polish and fought in the free Polish army.
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  39. Changing planning to permissive is Radical Creating GBEnergy setting up a wealth fund is radical
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  40. Me too I end having to vote tactically This country after 14 years of Con misrule needs leadership like never before we've had hope beaten and pummelled out of us.
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  41. They need to put up rates to attract buyers for government Gilts we have debts of over 2.7 trillion to service The Conservatives run a supply side economy and won't address strategic thinking even to something as simple as a gas storage facility in case of hard times or domestic food production to prevent food shock. We need to Subsidie farmers away from fertiliser farming Build more wind Turbines and insulate more homes
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  42. I'll vote for anyone that will kick out the Tories
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  43.  @ac4486  And your point being you'd rather have the Tories continue destroying the country? They've already said that they would be moving away from monetarism and Friedman towards a Keynesian economic model that brought economic recovery after the war. All you'll get with the Tories is grinding Austerity Monetarism the cornerstone of Thatcherism has completely has completely failed. But hey I'm just looking at both sides economic policies
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  44. @TheBaconWizard  no it doesn't I worked in IT all my life its lower and manual / manufacturing jobs what's created is a need for higher skills. The issue is to distribute the insane wealth that can be created if left unregulated.
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  45. @fang_xianfu  I agree they need processing quickly and treating humanly also don't see why they can't have temporary work visas, and I've completely gone over to the idea of ID cards one of the issues is its easy for people to dissappear into the black economy the seedy car wash the cash only nail bar. The EU have clamped down on this stuff and part of the issue is people that worked in the black economy over there are finding it harder and harder to avoid the authorities
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  46. This is why Sunak and the Tories will be totally fked and the longer they delay the worse it will get I'm betting on a low of 20 points Quote With the energy price cap below £1,300 throughout 2021, UK households spent around £30 billion on energy during the year. In 2023 the projected spend is around £170 billion. This is equivalent to more than doubling the basic rate of income tax from 20% to 45% or almost doubling VAT from 20% to 38%. Just over 6% of GDP
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  47. Dunno but you can't just turn it off the Tories economic model will collapse You need to restructure the economy 1st Supply side Labour is the result of Supply side economics aka Thatcherism
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  48. My wife is an Accountant for a small business she was saying because the Threshold has risen there overall NI bill will go down (6 employees)
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  49. ​@christianround2774 dunno the guy is pragmatic to the point of sheer frustration, he'll have a majority the likes we've never seen + a large slice of selection control it won't be like the current tory faction chaos
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  50.  @Joe-og6br  I've done my reading on what you can do with a little money. Planning is key just by changing to permissive and allowing councils to buy land and do joint development could build a load of private + council housing, we spend 20 billion per annum on housing support. Also it would speed grid roll out and change the whole outlook on decentralised renewable power production
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  51. 30 billion on renewable energy is ambitious The tax system is a complete mess how you can have the highest tax base in history and p1ss most of it away is an art form
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  52. Labour have a plan
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  53. Labour are picking up the mother of all economic messes. We will see how there doing in a few years.
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  54. It's 9n the website as are other policies
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  55. ​ @willrelf1377 you can only deliver radical if you have the people behind you. My now dead parents voted for Atlee after the war then slowly switched to Con, the dysfunction during the 60s 70s left a lot of scars as did the Thatcher years on me
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  56. 57% of US inflation is Corporate as in price gauging We have Supply Side Corporate Inflation on inelastic commodities such as energy and food You can lower inflation simply by addressing these 2 areas for energy try reduce demand by better insulation and modernising heating plus the quickest and cheapest way would also be build more wind Turbines Have an agricultural deal with the eu to reduce delays remove vet and other paperwork costs from the spiralling food costs. Plus reform uk farming away from its reliance on fertilizers
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  57.  @nickbuckle646  back in 2019 onshore wind generation reached parity with gas generation at 38p per gigawatt hour since then generation from gas has gone literally through the roof, currently you can crack hydrogen from water at 1/3 efficiency using spare electricity and there are huge advancements in the pipeline. There are also multiple ways of storing spare energy as heat Finland for example are developing a sand battery which is basically a thermos flask the size of a large grain silo. Scotland is already 93% renewable but tied to grid prices in the UK based on gas this is why labour are proposing GBEnergy the UK is unique in its topography for wind and tidal generation the cost of Cameron getting rid of the so called green crap runs into well over 100 billion
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  58. We have high energy prices because we don't have enough renewables on the grid and the grid hasn't been updated to cater for them. Forward contract price for dogger bank offshore is 42p per kilowatt hour Ofgem price dictated by fossil is 300p+ Wind energy became the cheapest source back in 2019 So why don't you go demand your MP lifts the moratorium on onshore wind instead of blaming the cheapest source of energy on the grid by x7
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  59. They will reform the planning system from one where you can block development This achieves a number of things including opening up Councils to build council houses, New towns and further speed up grid roll-out Once this starts in the North it will be a natural extension to improve transport links with the Northern powerhouse just cut out the cost of high speed and give us a functioning transport system that connects east to west and effectively joins Leeds to Manchester & Liverpool If you start to align with the EU then trade can flow through Hull
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  60. ​@user-xk2ig4tc3f currently Tories are breaking thier own fiscal rules debt is going up at the same time the tax cuts are coming in, markets aren't going to sit by but at least Sunak's is drip drip
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  61. His flagship policy hss tanked our economy and seen migration quadruple Every privatisation has made us worse off and he wants to flog off the NHS
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  62. If all the young people voted they could push for debt relief and free universities because they don't and the Tory base is pensioners they get screwed. The young need to get politically active
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  63. A net zero grid produces energy at a cheaper price than a fossil based grid One of the ways you can save money on your bill is have home battery storage it opens up cheap overnight tariffs and gives you high peak time export tariffs
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  64.  @jonsmith5058  I'll tackle energy 1st the current blocks on Grid roll out are with planning. If you want to do a lot with little money focus on people's homes. Get them insulated, this isn't easy you need standarised solutions. Get more onto the grid quicker by expanding current onshore/offshore sites and domestic installations of solar. I have Thermal solar it caters for 75% of my hot water averaged over the year New houses built to near passive standard etc NHS is simple sort out social care, get rid of the paperwork, internal market and trusts with management duplication
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  65. There's a good interview with economist Torsten Bell on PoliticsJoe which goes through the hard choices facing any new administration and labelling the Autumn statement as economic fiction Even small changes can have big consequences Hunt's budget is shrinking public service budgets post April to a level that would see them completely collapse to pay for the tax cuts. We will be going into the election poorer than we were in 2019 and the OBR don't expect wages to recover to pre 2008 levels till 2028
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  66. It's on the website these are just key points for campaigning
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  67.  @fang_xianfu  3.6% to be exact and the bulk of rich people avoid it to be fair if you read into it even if your on the fringes you can plan round it
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  68. His flagship policy tanked the economy and quadruple migration He wants to pravtise the NHS Every privatisation has been a complete failure or hadn't you noticed?
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  69. Go look up the renewable policy labour laws policy and Reeve's speeches on the Everyday economy If they get into power they will be inheriting an economy that is totally fked my brother is back over from Norway at the moment and he can't believe the increase in prices since a few years ago there now on a par for food costs that's a 50% jump in 2 years
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  70. Cutting taxes doesnt generate growth the wealthy plough it in to assets, corporations put it into share buy backs increasing ceo pay IT DOES NOTGET REINVESTED INTO THE ECONOMY if you want to grow the economy its really really simple GIVE IT TO POOR PEOPLE THEY SPEND EVERY PENNY RECYCLED BACK INTO THE ECONOMY INVEST IN SOCIAL AND PHYSICAL INFRASTRUCTURE PULL THE TAX SYSTEM TO PIECES AND REMOVE EVERY SINGLE TRICKLE D9WN POLICY
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  71. Just to note he appointed Sue Gray She banned WhatsApp And Confiscates phones when they have shadow cabinet meetings Plus His missions are based on work by leading economist Mariana Mazzucato
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  72. This didn't age well Sunak griffting for his wife with a childcare contract, even if its a genuine mistake by a super rich elite he's fkd now attack ad incoming
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  73.  @Vroomfondle1066  Gilts come to term all the time if your debt levels are such that your just replacing them then it's at the new rate so it's not just for new debt Your comment on money supply would be valid if we had normal inflation but the bulk is Corporate Supply Side on inelastic commodities (essential food and energy) in this case restricting money supply will have little effect we also have a Brexit multiplier as a trading nation everything we import and export to from the EU is more expensive. We also had over 1 million workers leave the UK over Brexit resulting in acute labour shortages ex- Pork production lack of abattoir workers meant pigs culled and the carcasses burnt lack of vets and additional paperwork and trade barriers has seen a collapse in exports driving up domestic prices Restricting the money supply isn't going to resolve domestic food production which is going to continue to spiral down requiring further imports to cover the ever increasing shortfall
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  74.  @mcbellyman3265  Many Tories did vote but for the Lib-Dems, there the Cameron coalition they have no affinity with the current conservative party as it heads off down the English nationalist route. Our new MP is Lib-Dem the Cons got absolutely spanked and the naz1 lite candidate polled 5%
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  75. we have the lowest number of robots per capita in the developed world + the Tories have used supply side Labour to depress the UK wage market, people come here to work those Jobs should be well payed not being used to push wages down and basically skimp on innovation and investment. There are just so many manual jobs that could be automated including in the NHS
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  76. @TheBaconWizard  the jobs get replaced with other businesses if I create a well payed skilled jobs they generate work in other areas quite a few well off middle class people I know now pay for gardening services. At some stage you may need UBI but currently the issue is wealth distribution and the embedding of a right wing supply side labour low wage philosophy
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  77. They've put forward an economic stance under Rachael Reeve "The Everyday Economy" Its a million miles from Thatcherism and low taxes for the top They've put forward a stance on Brexit which is more alignment with the EU to vastly reduce the paperwork crippling business a Veterinary deal alone would sort out the NI protocol And a green new deal to move from fossil (Norway has 93% renewable and 3% inflation)
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  78.  @steveez5717  2017 was as far as Corbyn could push it the Lib-Dem vote was completely squeezed by 2019 he was dead in the waterT The older working uneducated working class male voters were switching to UKIP (BNP light) those guys are just lost there all on the Rwanda train. No one outside Toryland are going to keep bowing to the big money guys all there eggs are in the Boris basket. The economic path forward is through a push to switch the economy from fossil devolve power to the regions and fire up small businesses who are the lifeblood of the economy outside the City. I'd hope you'd get a raft of legislation on workers rights and an uplift in the minimum wage ban fire and rehire zero hours Non Dom and close down all the fekin tax havens. As an aside I've been listening to a great podcast series called "Origin stories" the last episode I listened to was "Neoliberalism everything is for sale" Its done by a couple of Jurno's on the left absolutely cracking given our conversation its right up your street. Knowledge is power nice talking to you
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  79. So why are we here one word AUSTERITY and that's what we will get more of if the Tories are reelected More Knife crime budgets slashed for youth and mental help services Austerity NHS falling apart long patient waiting lists millions off sick waiting for operations dragging down GDP Austerity Overcrowded prisons high crime rates which drag down GDP Austerity Kids in portacabins crumbling schools teachers leaving in droves Austerity PotHoles everywhere Local Council budgets cut by 40% causing car damage and crashes Austerity THEY KNOW THE COST OF EVERYTHING AND THE VALUE OF NOTHING
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  80. I don't think so given all that's gone and DJT is sounding more and more incoherent with every day. There will be surprises, there's 600,000 people of hatian descent in florida + the roe ballot initiative. Georgia was the surprise last time we'll see.
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  81.  @mrstephenpariah  I stand for publicity owned services but I'm not prepared to write a blank cheque to nationalise them, that's the vibe I get in a FPTP system you have to cut your cloth accordingly
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  82. ​ @kaya051285 we don't have the workers to do it or the joined up thinking to have an integrated transport policy but at least Labour are discussing the issue Andy Burnham podcast on Rock and Roll politics Sadiq Khan has been on about this as well
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  83. Changing planning to permissive is Radical Creating GBEnergy setting up a wealth fund is radical
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  84. You can mitigate the drag with regulatory realignment without commitment to rejoin we are where we are Corbyn's problem was trying to rewind Thatcherism getting stuck down the rabbit hole of rewinding Brexit is fruitless TCA is up for renegotiation in 2024
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  85. Try GarysEconomics channel
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  86. I'm affluent in a blue wall seat the Greens are middle class NIMBY's in my area I'm voting Lib-Dem to boot out the Tory Incumbent
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  87. Loved the podcast well done
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  88. Labour's are missions its an approach based on this book Mission Economy A moonshot guide to changing capitalism “A timely and optimistic vision. Rethinking the role of government nationally and in the international economy - to put public purpose first and solve the problems that matter to people - are now the central questions for humanity"
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  89. Strategic economic supply chain dependance. The era of Total globalisation is dead
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  90. Nuclear is just getting too expensive especially as battery prices have dropped massively and are due to fall in price further
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  91. The Cons are dead they'll limp on for a while trashing the economy but given how badly they've mismanaged things and how much worse its going to get there USP of being sound on the economy is in tatters all they've got now is hate migrants and the EU have a pop at Trans people
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  92. Starmer is an excellent manager what your wanting is someone with the oratory skills I genuinely think he's getting better he is obviously practicing, his Kings Speech retort I thought was well paced and now showing emotion The Tories have wrecked the economy the only thing keeping it afloat is London, what needs to be done would take decades
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  93. There's a good interview with economist Torsten Bell on PoliticsJoe which goes through the hard choices facing any new administration and labelling the Autumn statement as economic fiction Even small changes can have big consequences Hunt's budget is shrinking public service budgets post April to a level that would see them completely collapse to pay for the tax cuts.
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  94. I think people like Reeve Nandy and Milliband will do an excellent job they come over as knowledgeable and dedicated
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  95. ​ @PhilJones-bb1wn The Employment Allowance, which offers some relief on NI costs, increases to £10,500. This provides a cushion for many small businesses, particularly those employing fewer staff. Businesses may see these shifts reflected in higher staffing costs, particularly for mid-sized and larger firms with significant payrolls.
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  96. ​@tomtresco2952 In 2010 debt to gdp was 62% and debt was 800 billion, by 2016 it was 82% by 2019 it was 92% and here we are at 100% after Tory borrowing of 1.5 trillion + 8 million people and a knackered economy. You've got some cheek to start slagging Brown who stopped the banks, pension and mortgage system from going under in 2008
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  97. ​ @richardoliver4997 renewable energy reduces bills. It's slashed mine by 80%+
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  98. Cutting tax doesn't stimulate enough growth to justify the tax cut Infrastructure investment is the only way of growing the economy and gdp per capita Looking at the spend the Tories waste a huge amount on trickle down cr@p
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  99. Corbyn ran a very loose ship there was little to no discipline Starmer comes along with Iron discipline his nickname with the left Stalin Starmer because he's having non of the loose cannon behaviour This is a sample from Abbot Labour MP Diane Abbott has said the UK and US are responsible for any breakout of conflict in Ukraine Diane Abbott: Keir Starmer's 'deranged' Nato support risks 'catastrophe' in Ukraine Even as a Labour supporter and member if she were my MP I couldn't vote for her and why I have no time for Corbyn and his peacenik lackeys, my Father came here during the war via a Russian Gulag he is Polish and fought in the free Polish army. Stalin killed 5 million Ukrainians with collectivization and during the war executed 200,000 Ukrainian political prisoners as Germany invaded.
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  100.  @keithparker1346  we'll see, this week's decision by Sunak to announce construction of Gas peak plants instead of moving to MegaPack technologies will cost customers 10's of billions. Deliberately playing to the GBN anti net zero crowd and those that are drifting to Reform We're still building houses to inadequate insulation standards. We'll see what happens when it happens
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  101. Our tax is high enough the problem is it appears optional for the wealthy EX Micheal Mone 200 million contract 60 million profit straight into an offshore account no tax and completely gone from the economy
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  102. What Car does Sunak Drive A Ford Fiasco Boom Boom
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  103. They've put forward a stance on Brexit which is more alignment with the EU to vastly reduce the paperwork crippling business a Veterinary deal alone would sort out the NI protocol. Best your going to get in 4 years I'd have thought a visa deal would help as well
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  104. Its Conservative ideology thar has failed you can change leader all they want the still keep banging the trickle down drum
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  105. Planning Reform and allowing Councils to start building council houses again is radical
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  106. A tax cut for Millionaire Pensioners For fk's sake pass the sick bag
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  107. ​ @totalvoid6234 stop spamming
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  108. ​ @totalvoid6234 stop spamming
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  109. Green energy is cheaper if you have cheaper energy your costs go down The issue is lack of mass storage to time shift consumption Battery prices fell 20% last year and for a domestic solar install there VAT free as are the panels, I've just had an install done the expected saving is £1200 a year from a combination of time shifting usage and opening up cheap overnight tariff, cheaper daytime tariff and not using the grid during peak
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  110. Its pretty sad that your batting for the Tories after 14 years The reason he's had to bend so much is Labour's lost decade following a false Prophet you inflicted on yourselves + 4 major economic crisis
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  111.  @tonyb9735  you don't seem to appreciate that Corbyn was a backbencher for a reason why he was even in the Labour party beats me he voted continuously against the Blair / Brown government never put forward or sponsored legislation and lived in his own time bubble that appears to have stopped the day he got elected. Even when elected leader he never sorted out his own party the stuff in the manifesto was a fantasy left wing wish list that he'd have needed a couple of decades and a super majority to enact. Corbyn is the man through his own hubris handed the Tories an 80 seat majority on a plate in 2019 he went to the country with a +12 -72 approval record which is the same as Truss at her lowest left wing snake oil right wing snake oil what's the difference
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  112.  @tonyb9735  My point is Corbyn was living in a fantasy land his government would have fallen to pieces and very quickly blocking any hope of a Labour government for a decade or more even splitting the party completely.
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  113. @Dragonsitter  Marr gives me hope, the politicking to get here is painful, if you look into Starmer in detail he appears principled yet very pragmatic but utterly ruthless A story I heard the other day was that Sue Gray has banned WhatsApp and confiscated phones at shadow cabinet meetings and is being used as a sounding block as to how policy could be implemented successfully
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  114. We will see the mission approach is pretty radical all departments working to 1 goal Whitehall is pretty disconnected and dysfunctional at the moment and Kier is a driven man
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  115. There's a good interview with economist Torsten Bell on PoliticsJoe which goes through the hard choices facing any new administration and labelling the Autumn statement as economic fiction Even small changes can have big consequences Hunt's budget is shrinking public service budgets post April to a level that would see them completely collapse to pay for the tax cuts.
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  116. The driver of migration is Thatcherism Supply side trickle down economics needs a constant supply side Labour pool The only way round this to slow migration is to invest in your domestic population People flock to right wing populism when left wing managed economy is the only way of slowing migration Ah well
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  117. No the current leadership are trying to sideline Corbyn's OAP clique
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  118.  @jaimiepotts  we need east west and additional capacity NOW not in 30 years we're decades behind in infrastructure
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  119. no there not 28 billion on GBEnergy speeding up net zero transition saving consumers billions, reforming zero hour contracts banning Fire Rehire overhaul of the Visa system. There will also be increased funding for services by ripping out the Tory Trickle down cr*p
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  120.  @jezlawrence720  The Lancet volume 7 issue 7 July 2022
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  121. 60% of the population detest him to the core His policies are Rank Privatise the NHS Deregulated workers rights Tax cuts for the wealthy Nuclear energy at x 3 the cost of renewable and 12-15 years to build
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  122.  @markwelch3564  They provide much needed shade for a lot of plants and slow down evaporation look up Agrovoltaiacs
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  123. Its shock to get the MSM to stop talking about boat people and trying to rebrand Sunak as the brave new future disconnected from 13 years of shyte tory policies
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  124. ​@rhysbevan429 the inflation is Supply Side Not Demand Side interest rates curb Demand side inflation if the inflation is on inelastic Supply side goods (food and energy) then your using a sledgehammer to crack an egg. Government should have in 2021 Increased the supply of energy by fast tracking renewable policy and grid upgrades Put in a windfall tax of 70-80% on excess Profits to curb pandemic and war profiteering pushed the bulk of the money to customers Stopped the current farming policies and encouraged through grants and taxation the growing of more domestic food Insulation programs and changes to planning where still building homes that will need Insulation retro fitting. We did non of the above and you couple that with 2 major bouts of QE which has all trickled up in the covid case 700 billion in Truss's case 130 billion and zero attempt to pull it out the top but a policy of squeezing it out the bottom. The rich who benefited from QE are fairly immune to rate hikes
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  125. Pro growth Tories? Cutting taxes will stagnate the economy further the Tories have completely knackered it Sunak IS NOT A CENTERIST HE'S A FRIKIN HARD RIGHT THATCHERITE
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  126. Changing planning to permissive is Radical Creating GBEnergy setting up a wealth fund is radical
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  127.  @jonsmith5058  His missions are radical it's just he's boring and feels centrist. Read Mission Economy A Moonshot Guide to Changing Capitalism by Mariana Mazzucato
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  128.  @keithparker1346  How do you know? Planning has changed in decades moving to a permissive system opens up all sorts of opportunities that don't need buckets of money
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  129. @jonsmith5058  these are different times my Dad came here after the war as did many others the post war building boom was done on the backs of migrant labour, the new NHS staffed from the colonies something that would be a hard sell today. My solution is permissive planning, factory built housing to A+ thermal standards with Council / Private partnerships and a ban on landbanking
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  130.  @andybrice2711  Steel closures are because of BREXIT nothing to do with UK energy policy as in the EU are putting very high tariffs on coked steel and coked steel products from 2026 onward from 3rd countries
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  131.  @andybrice2711  without being in the EU manufacturing in this country is dead. Weather that is steel, cars, batteries anything.
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  132. If you defund the Police, Justice System and Local Authorities then crime will rise. The affect of the additional crime caused by Austerity on the UK economy is tens of billions each year.
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  133. Its not a Labour think Tank quote Its stated aim is to improve the standard of living of low-to-middle income families. Check out the Joseph Rowntree Foundation Analysis. The Right wing is bought and paid for by lobbyists such as the IEA and TaxPayers Alliance and our media is owned by Billionaire interests. @0w784g 
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  134. Labour want to spend 28 billion on Green Policies and here's why Cost of Energy in 2021 to UK Consumers (Renewables where the cheapest source of electric at this point) was 30 billion Cost of Energy in 2023 to UK Consumers will be 170 Billion (Due to Gas price Fluctuations and the energy market being tied to GAS (40%) If you invest 28 billion a year into renewable energy and grid expansion it will OnShore energy jobs and reduce the 170 billion eventually down to 30 Billion + inflation @nazb1982 
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  135.  @bl3rune  it will have been focus grouped
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  136. Its a pointless attitude because we will never rejoin when the Tories can sh@t in the bed as soon as they get in with as little as 36% of the vote Labour have a few policies I support Lib-Dems a couple Greens quite a few Tories ZERO and policies I actually hate so Less than ZERO.
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  137. The key to cheaper energy and revitalising the economy is a renewable economic strategy British gas screwed us for +800 million in excess profit while Sunak just stood there and did fk all
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  138. Free market fundamentalist isn't free its at the expense of 90% of the population Thatchers burying of heavy industry will be but a blip to what will happen to every farmer SME and the millions they employ who's up for 15% unemployment?
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  139. He's not but dream on
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  140. ​@spacechannelfiver I've greatly revised my view of New Labour mistakes there where but with more information that the MSM can't control and spin available they where heavily demonised with no real counter views. We where lead by the nose into Austerity 2 years in economists where screaming at the top of thier voices this is not working its actually shrinking the economy I never heard that at the time but digging into why were in the economic mess where in this is a quote from 2015 . But if anything, the monster in the room is the prevalence of what economist John Quiggin called “zombie economics” – ideas that are constantly discredited, but insist on shambling back to life and lurching their way through our public discourse The Tories are still spinning this zombie into life after 13 years of failure
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  141. He's not a centerist if you look at some of the policies in detail Reeve is definitely not and will reshape economic policy, there is a huge amount you can do to rebalance taxation GBEnergy and the renewable transformation are not centerist and before you slag it off the US is plowing 1.75 trillion into renewable the EU 600 billion there is no choice for a non right wing government From now to the election they will be constantly hammered on how will you pay for it something never leveled at tax cuts
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  142. Why would Starmer stick with a broken model Reeve will want to get costs out of the NHS one of the key ways of doing it is in house and there spending billions on Agency staff Throughput is also appalling was in with my Mum before Xmas the back end of the system has to many people that should be in social care and that was a removal of local funds during early Austerity. There's also a lot you can do with local facilities and there is no 1 size fits all it depends on the population mix
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  143. What do we know about this election that is actually a fact well in 2020 the electorate was made up of 55% women and 45% men Since then the GOP has waged a war against women's healthcare Also of the counties by GDP 70% voted for Biden even polling shows large numbers of the college educated vote is democrat. Do enough voters realise that DJT and Musk's economic plan will crash the economy (Musk claims this is necessary for structural realignment he doesn't know wtf he's talking about)
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  144. Quote “A single cohort of international students is worth a net £25.9bn to the UK economy. " Last year, the number was 136,000 student visas The UK has a Birth rate of 1.6 it needs +400,000 ish to keep a stable population and The Times quote Labour has announced plans to cut immigration that would bar employers from recruiting foreign workers unless they pay them the market rate What's interesting about this quote is Starmer hasn't any plans to cut migration he has plans to stop firms undercutting domestic workers + plans for Apprenticeships & Training. Is it lazy writing or deliberate?
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  145. In today's supercharged disinformation world that would fan the far right into conspiracy overload, did you not see the hysteria and fallout from ULEZ 2
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  146.  @davidrenton  Why is creating a problem in the 1st place then not dealing with it year on year Its piss easy to see lack of progress on this pathetic whining about not putting them into a Labour / Concentration camp in east Africa that is set up to take 200 a year
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  147. Lab policy to the Right? If you look at the latest from the Unions the GMB are very Conservative over Green policies and most Unions fight tooth and nail to block change at any cost. Labour voters in what was the red wall can be very socially Conservative while wanting very Liberal fiscal policy which is why Boris's promise of leveling up was such an attraction complete BS and he lied through every orifice in his body but Labour need their votes as well as the more Socially Liberal people like me. Lib Dems can be all things to all men or women because they will never be tested on it
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  148. He's taken control of party selection for the most part
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  149. Boris sold them out with his Brexit deal there not going to vote Con next election if the Lib Dems campaign hard enough
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  150. I'm still voting Labour, 24k a year in freebies is slightly over average for someone not in Government and he is the Leader after I looked into it. The big gravy train numbers are on the Tory side in government.
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  151. Reform's fiscal policies are Batsh1t there basically Truss's with a few changes the main one is to choke of the supply side Labour pool that makes Thatcherism and supply side economics even look like it works. Unfunded tax cuts, migration ban, leave the ECHR Fracking abandon net zero completely
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  152. What's the point in Pro EU voters leaving Labour there the ones talking realignment to smooth trade and travel and the Pro EU crowd are also the Pro Green crowd in most cases with Labour alone offering a clear renewable policy that doesn't involve bunging the private sector billions. Most of the soft Tory support round my area would flip Labour just on Green policy and cleaning up the rivers and sea + sort out NHS and Schools The Tory vote is going to collapse in areas you'd have never have thought of for all sorts of reasons
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  153.  @archvaldor  I'm 66 and I'm well aware of the political spectrum from Major's soft Right to Thatchers Neoliberalism and Blaire's Centrism to Johnson's Right wing Populism Truss's far right Libertarian free market disaster capitalism and Corbyn's nostalgia socialist trip back to the 70's Sunak is full on Thatcherism he'll get by because the markets don't care how he balances the books you can't see him being able to win an election though there are too many crazies in the party and most people aren't a fan of Supply Side Trickle down which has been killing the economy since Cameron took over.
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  154. @SuperSupermanX1999  Sunak isn't centre right Thatcher called them the wets, Johnson booted most out the party and filled the spots with ukip dregs. The Tories are really fked the English Nationalist lot like Gullis are mental no amount of cruelty is too much on the Libertarian front there all barking for tax cuts as debt to gdp soars to > 100% By the way Thatcherism needs a constant supply of Supply Side Cheap labour to even stand still and they've cut themselves off from the nearest source according to the ONS we lost 500,000 workers from the UK economy due to outward migration in 2022 numbers in employment are still below 2019 levels over 1 million vacancies. Sunak isn't going to change his stripes on Supply Side Economics and like you say he's having to pander to the various power blocks in the party with nutter legislation
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  155. No we won't taxes are going up overall The NI cut helps 30-60k crowd who are likely working in the south east and are getting hammered by mortgage and rent increases. It's a budget that perpetuates the economic doom spiral the Tories have created
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  156.  @iangelling  it's a feature of first past the post, the Cameron government's ruled on 36% of the vote, Johnson got 43% on the back of Corbyn, leveling up & breaking the brexit impas. Given he delivered nothing & Sunak has reversed his entire agenda there going t9 get the mother of all gubbins in the election
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  157.  @matthewtrow5698  Back in 2015 the IMF called out Osborne's trickle down and Austerity as not working and that economic growth came from the bottom up and middle out. Major studies of 50 years of data have junked the Tories economic policies the only one sticking to them post 2010 was us everyone else has moved on. Starmer & Reeve aren't stupid they need money without raising the base rate of taxation so will have to dismantle decades of trickle down cr*p to do it.
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  158. @keithparker1346  the biggest block currently is planning, firms landbank, its grinding slow on essential grid roll out as well Just by changing to permissive development you could spur gdp growth and bank a second term Put new towns in the Tory seats that are left Just a thought
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  159. The Root cause of our current inflation is connected to energy policy Brexit is just the shtshw that pours petrol on any economic problems we have and makes them way worse Here's a fun fact historically coming out of recession is driven 60% by SME'S and exports small businesses trade locally its known as trade gravity and weve erected trade barriers with a 400 million person market 20 miles away. Corporate investment has dropped right off since 2016 basically this isn't a 5 quarter recession its going to be permanent as we spiral into a doom loop
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  160. Since when you read any of the stuff put out by Reeve or Milliband Over 30 Billion on renewable energy in a new Company GBEnergy within 4 years that's 120 billion which will transform the supply landscape Starmer's Job is to Troll the Tories as much as possible end off you'll get a centre left manifesto that the left will hate and the centre right will go whatever and tick the box because 13 years of Trickle down economics has completely hit the buffers
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  161. ​ @Godonstilts so true
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  162.  @buzzukfiftythree  The reason there's so much bureaucracy is the NHS is split up into trusts that then have duplicate management structures
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  163. a fiscally sound Con for a year or 2 till things settle internationally isn't the worst. the energy and cost of living crisis is into its 1st year of a 2+ year cycle there are some go9d labour policies that can be hammered home in that time UK energy and windfall tax + green policies
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  164. ​@calastyphon3414 convert the economy to net zero The countries that don't rely on fossil will have a massive advantage on energy costs for businesses
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  165.  @calastyphon3414  no Reeve Reeve put it into context The figures say we should be spending 40 billion a year on net zero, the Cons have p1ssed away so much money it will be impossible to reach that figure without private partnerships
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  166.  @calastyphon3414  we have a tax base of 36% up from 33%, looking at the last budget alone Sunak blew 20 billion on tax breaks for the wealthy
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  167.  @calastyphon3414  personal tax iis high enough the issue is tax on wealth instead of work
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  168. It's to do with borrowing, you need the rate to be attractive enough to sell Gilts we borrowed 130 billion last year total debt is around 2.6 trillion and interest payments are currently 120 billion. The Conservatives have really screwed up the economy everyone in the City knows there will be near zero growth
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  169. Changing planning to permissive is Radical Creating GBEnergy setting up a wealth fund is radical I'd expect them to alter the tax system fundamentally as well
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  170. Reform economic policies are as Batsh1t as Truss's where
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  171. I know saw her on the show Make Me Prime Minister a right good laugh Alastair Campbell and Baroness Sayeeda Warsi put 12 ambitious Brits through their political paces, as they compete to be crowned Channel 4's Alternative Prime Minister
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  172.  @davidwebb4904  you mean something like this? HS2 light a step closer as Government opens talks with 18 Oct 2024 — Transport Secretary Louise Haigh to hold talks with private businesses and metro mayors advocating for a new version of the axed high-speed line.
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  173.  @davidwebb4904  I did a breakdown on hinkley C a year ago, the Government are only committed to 33 billion, cost overruns are having to be absorbed by EDF currently. The main issue is the delays you can build the equivalent wind farm offshore for 11 billion in 2 years. And Put mass storage on strategic grid nodes for 30 billion quote EDF says its Hinkley Point C nuclear power plant could be delayed to as late as 2031, with costs rising to £46bn
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  174.  @davidwebb4904  We have the lowest tax base of major European economies. The bulk of the bill is Pensions and NHS You can however increase revenue by collecting what is owed estimates are that last year HMRC failed to collect 42 billion. If you want to decrease waste and reduce costs devolve the spending power to local government who are more able to scrutinize budgets
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  175. Delivering for millionaire pensioners you mean screwing everyone else The current budget is classic Tory grift with inflation and fiscal drag the average person will be 6% worse off with an additional tax burden of around £1000 under Sunak the tax base has moved from 32% in 2019 to 33% 2022 and is expected to be 38% by 2027 when the rate freeze expires. The reason is the economy is a raging skip fire after 13 years of Tory economic mismanagement
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  176.  @andrewwalsh2755  Even Blair/ Brown were a million miles from the Cons so you're analogy is a bit dumb
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  177. what's wrong with EV's there dirt cheap to run? Energy suppliers are giving as low as 8p pkwh for overnight charging, you get around 250 miles out of a 50 kw battery I would add battery prices have dropped by 20% in the last year
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  178. we don't live in a free market the government pics winners and loosers. If you give a fossil company a tax break your picking a winner if you pay for that by taxing working and middle class PAYE your picking a looser  @MCDONALD6969 
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  179. He doesn't even understand business he studied economics but is a devotee of the Chicago school neoliberal theory totally immersed in trickle down supply side economics just look at the budget 8 billion tax break for bankers 2 billion tax break for millionaire pensioners +6 billion more in subsidies for the Fossil industry Fiscal drag and fk all for everyone else Same Thatcherite shyte we've had for the previous 12 years Its a Truss budget but one that scrapes everyone at the bottom to balance the books
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  180. there free market trickle down zelotes if your mindset is that way you double down and shrug your shoulders look at the Truss bunch still claiming she was right
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  181. The Foghorn of ignorance got you to vote for a hard Brexit which has driven migration through the roof ENJOY
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  182. Between him becoming leader and now the Tories added 700 billion to national debt and jacked us out the EU causing a shortfall of 50 billion in tax revenues
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  183. Corbyn was a left wing populist espousing Fantasy Economics his fate would have been the same as Lettuce Liz but more bloody making the Labour Party unelectable for decades. Populism doesn't work whatever side of the political spectrum it comes from
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  184.  @hvhvgitaar  Corbyn was the problem by 2019 Diisliked by 70% off the public who saw.hiim as a London elite detached from thier lived reality living in his own socialist fantasy world
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  185. Fundemantly we have a London problem HS2/3 was the wrong solution but the right idea, improved transport networks including rail bus and road, a link from Hull to Liverpool so continental transportation doesn't rely on Dover
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  186. They didn't empty the Coffers that was a Joke and Tory Spin and gave Osborne an excuse to shrink the state and really empty the coffers debt to GDP in 2010 was 62% GDP 1.6 Trillion of debt later its 100% with mas migration during the period and falling GDP per capita
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  187.  @davidrenton  Invasion and other othering tricks to get people to not see refugees as human beings once that line is crossed mass deportation to a Labour / Concentration camp in East Africa Quote The Nazis started using forced labour shortly after their rise to power. They established specific Arbeitslager (labour camps) which housed Ostarbeiter (eastern workers), Fremdarbeiter (foreign workers) and other forced labourers who were forcibly rounded up after they came to power in 1933 The Albanians being given refugee status are women who have been people trafficked
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  188. ​@keithparker1346 there's limited scope for borrowing from what I can gather there's private money for the green tech renewables which if Labour don't tap will go to the US or EU The main issue holding up new renewable projects will be the grid I'm presuming they'll reintroduce insulation standards and grants you can get household usage of solar panels up. I looked at heat pump last year there not really suitable for older properties you need to upgrade to 3 phase supply in most cases
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  189.  @keithparker1346  by printing more money you increase supply which effects inflation, the problem we have is structural our economy can't grow because we have supply side shortages of Energy Food Housing Labour And a tax and government policy system which is acting as a firehouse at squirting the money we do have and are printing up to corporations and the wealthy The British gas excess profits of 800 million are a stark example and we have another 12 months of this at least the 1st thing that needs doing is turning the firehouse off I'm not against borrowing but currently it's only making things worse you need some long term solutions to the above including major tax reform
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  190. ​@1violalass fiscal drag I'm paying +550 The effect of inflation and freezing tax and NI thresholds so everyone bar the 30-60k working bracket are getting a tax increase. + there reducing government support for councils and jacking up council tax
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  191. There off the scale Fully Faragified @richardhands904 
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  192.  @SwatantraNandanwar  current polling and focus group data suggests the voters want to punish the Tories and by-election data suggest heavy tactical voting, come the election Labour Lib-Dems and Reform will lean into this narrative. There in for a wipe out
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  193. Christian Fascism basically imported from the US the problem they have is where a bit to secular and Gen Z + Millenials think there mental I read somewhere that the Cons are polling at 8% with younger voters Over in the states its 75-24% in favour of the Democrats
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  194. I'm out canvassing already our area is gettable by the Lib-Dems I have a 23 year old son well qualified happy at his job but its +20p over minimum wage things have to change the Tories have to go. I really don't care how the MSM try to drag Labour down at this point my goal is to do what I can to obliterate the Tory Party from politics at every level they and thier client media are a Cancer on this country
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  195. In my opinion 1.Socially Conservative out of 10 2.Fiscally Conservative out of 10 Cameron 1=4, 2=8 Sunak 1=6, 2=8
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  196. People get confused with Fiscal Conservatism and social conservatism I think Starmer is centre on social issues and centre left on economic ones if you look at Sunak he's centre right on social issues (don't think he cares to be honest) and hard right on Fiscal scale Dodgy Dave was socially quite Liberal but Osborne's Fiscal policies were as hard right as Sunak's (Thatcherism + Austerity)
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  197. We have a huge problem with the Black Economy a lot of so called asylum seekers who are economic migrants disappear into it, I'm all for clearing the Asylum backlog but what about the cash only car washes and other businesses which creates criminal gangs and modern slavery. We also need voter ID a common system is now needed @jubear1493 
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  198. Truss has the backing of billionaire + fossil pharma lobby think tanks Tax cuts dont generate growth the return on £1 off tax is 20p so your pissing 80p up the wall 2 farmers plough thier fields with horses give 1 a tractor you improve thier productivity give them both a tax cut they have an extra pint at the pub
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  199. I've just fitted a battery and solar system it will save me 1200 a year one of the main reasons is opening up cheap overnight tariff with my supplier and a lower day tariff Currently battery prices have fallen by 20% and they have been zero vat rated also business could reclaim 100% tax relief against capital costs
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  200.  @greyvoice7949  yes we've left, the only group that will get anything from deregulation is the City, the idea that deregulation will help manufacturing farmers fishermen SME'S is false all it will do is crater exports even further as more and more paperwork is needed to prove goods are up to standard. Meanwhile pollution will increase wages will be driven down by lack of regulatory checks to the point our current EU trade agreement will be suspended on level playing field grounds. Welcome to sweatshop Britain the Tory deregulated hell
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  201.  @stephenhill545  it's a shame that he'll be judged on that rather than being an ex hedge fund manager who's primary qualification is an economics degree and no soul They are Asset stripping debt loading vampires who know the cost of everything and the value of nothing You can see it in the latest public sector pay proposals and the push to Austerity 2.0 (a Purley political choice)
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  202. We have high energy prices because we don't have enough renewables on the grid and the grid hasn't been updated to cater for them. Forward contract price for dogger bank offshore is 42p per kilowatt hour Ofgem price dictated by fossil is 300p+ Wind energy became the cheapest source back in 2019 So why don't you go demand your MP lifts the moratorium on onshore wind instead of blaming the cheapest source of energy on the grid by x7
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  203. The Tories are wasting billions in trickle down policies that don't work the next government needs to clean out the finances and get them sorted out that will take time Easy wins with minimal spending make the Apprenticeship scheme work properly its currently broken, change planning so houses can be built quicker look at modular factory built housing instead of bricks and mortar because we don't have the labour. So Starmers Missions one of which is grow the economy I read economics books and his mission statements seem to be based on this book by Mariana Mazzucato Mission Economy A moonshot guide to changing capitalism
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  204. 1st off the debt to GDP is 100.1 % up from its 2010 total of 62% There is money for infrastructure spend on an economic renewable industrial strategy (reasons most of it private backed) The tax base is 33% rising to 37% by 2027 and The Tories are pissing away money left right and centre on trickle down policies with the vain notion that they will by magic increase GDP ex- around 100 billion in fossil subsidies in the next 5 years to cover exploration costs and cleanup costs in the North Sea 2.8 billion per annum on management consultants quote A review of tax “winners and losers” across every Budget that took place while Boris Johnson and Rishi Sunak were in Downing Street finds that the Conservative government had given at least £35.8bn to businesses in tax cuts, and £2.2bn to the wealthy, before they both resigned last month. So the 1st thing that needs to happen is to cut out all the trickle down
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  205. This is why Sunak and the Tories will be totally fked and the longer they delay the worse it will get I'm betting on a low of 20 points Quote With the energy price cap below £1,300 throughout 2021, UK households spent around £30 billion on energy during the year. In 2023 the projected spend is around £170 billion. This is equivalent to more than doubling the basic rate of income tax from 20% to 45% or almost doubling VAT from 20% to 38%. Just over 6% of GDP@Mantastic-ho3vm
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  206. Mine have dropped by £1200 I fitted a solar and battery system which opens up cheap off peak tariffs with my supplier
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  207. NS is a centre/left if you want a Centerist view the The View is the podcast for you if you want Centre Right the the Times podcast GBeebies TalkTV etc will just rot your brain The current government are hard right and do fk all for anyone but the millionaires and billionaires as seen clearly in the budget they don't even give a shyte about SME'S and farmers anymore
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  208. 75% of the media are seamless with the Con party there owned by billionaires and push billionaire interests Look up the piece by Byline Times The Billionaires Bitch Pulls no punches
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  209. I've listened to the Bulwark they do focus groups on swing voters. Most think DJT is a Jerk and he's really p1ssed off women big style. Also these closing weeks he doesn't look appealing to parents especially if you have daughters.
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  210.  @MrBannystar  there eating the dogs There's 600,000 people of Hatian heritage in Florida And Roe is on the ballot And Women hate creepy lecherous grandpa
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  211.  @MrBannystar  I would add that given his mental decline which is on full display his erratic behaviour threatening everyone and anyone, calling every one a cheat already as he descends into madness anything is possible.
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  212. This is why Sunak and the Tories will be totally fked and the longer they delay the worse it will get I'm betting on a low of 20 points Quote With the energy price cap below £1,300 throughout 2021, UK households spent around £30 billion on energy during the year. In 2023 the projected spend is around £170 billion. This is equivalent to more than doubling the basic rate of income tax from 20% to 45% or almost doubling VAT from 20% to 38%. Just over 6% of GDP @crayontom9687 
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  213. Not coming from the Labour camp he sees ok to me apart from he's gone to far on the Centerism, Corbyn's policies where just elite socialist populism with zero chance of getting a working majority or succeeding if he ever did. At least Starmer is acknowledging where we are not trying to take us back to the 70's. As for traditional Labour values what are they exactly working class voted UKIP Brexit then Boris your stuck with the likes of me now a suburban retired educated soft left an the younger educated vote, move into Corbyn territory and that vote evaporates not to be replaced by the working class. Had an extension built last year the younger lads working on it don't vote and the older workers think Farage is the true Jesus  @gavinreid9184 
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  214. The mission statements come from work done by leading economist Mariana Mazzucato who's ideas are of a whole of government approach combined with industry. It would radically alter how Whitehall works. With Green energy the current issue is the Grid and Planning not money. Check out Mission Economy A Moonshot Guide to Changing Capitalism
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  215. Sunak is he's stopped the economic hemorrhaging, you may not like Supply Side Trickle down economics with tax cuts for millionaire pensioners and fiscal drag and fk all else for everyone else but the City Gilt and bond markets don't care who Sunak screws as long as the books balance.
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  216. ​ @terrancehall9762 25% is high enough the issue is getting companies to pay at the momment tax is optional for a huge chunk of the population
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  217. Right leaning in what way? The mess were in isn't just the fault of the current bunch its the end result of Thatcherism, while she could use assert stripping oil money globalization and giving away council houses to look vaguely economically competent selling out the future only goes so far? The water crisis - Thatcher The council housing crisis (20 billion spent on housing support bankrupting councils) - Thatcher The energy crisis - Thatcher
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  218. ​ @totalvoid6234 what's your problem?
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  219. Under Blair tax went down for the bottom 20% and went up for the top 9% plus average wages during the decade rose by +25% It wasn't enough in hindsight but 1 million miles from the raging hard right Thatcherite Austerity of Osborne and Sunak
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  220. She's 70 it's time for her to stand down anyway Lack of judgement is that down to age? She's been an MP since 1987 The Corbyn clique all in there 70s trying to turn back time
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  221. Anyone beyond GCSE cab see the correlation between Fossil and soaring energy bills The Blue wall are voting in Green councilors the Tories will get rinsed by the Lib-Dems for this even if they cling to a couple of Red wall seats because there the ones buying EV's and wanting Charging infrastructure. I live in a heavy voting Tory area and there's Tesla's everywhere and the Mums are really p1ssed over RAAC
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  222. What he thinks and what is possible are 2 different things I believe all public services should be publicly owned would I renationalize them no for the water companies I'd want to regulate the 60 billion in debt out of them 1st why are we socializing the losses and privatize the profits?
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  223.  @gio-oz8gf  life is too short you obviously understand enough to waste time on it.
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  224. There soggy centrist at best
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  225. Why is everyone not trotting out the work of Keynes He argued for governments to stimulate faltering economies with public investiture. Even a small increase in government spending could net sizeable results, creating economic and social stability. In the interwar years between WWI and WWII, right-wing strongmen rose across Europe as a response to faltering economies and the Bolshevik revolution in Russia. Keynes understood that factors like economic deprivation, deflation, and inequality lead to dictators. The Tories are gone they will not recover what is coming is a rise of the far right and not under Farage, already your hearing Reform voters swing behind people like Tommy Robinson.
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  226. Ruthlessness is a good trait in a leader the rest of his Act needs sharpening up though his missions seem to be based on this book by Mariana Mazzucato Mission Economy A moonshot guide to changing capitalism
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  227.  @keithparker1346  no its not too many wilt at difficult decisions and run to the nearest management consultant Current scenario The Tories have to be kicked out at all costs +5 years of Tory rule will see A private NHS Fossil on overdrive net zero gone further deregulation causing the collapse of sme manufacturing in this country pivot in education to Charter schools (outsourcing)
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  228. So replace someone with vast experience of running a government department with people with zero experience and expect them to change anything? I just don't get where the logic to have a wasted 5 years of Labour infighting comes from?
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  229. what's hard left about making people pay their taxes if your on payroll you get no choice @malthusXIII-fo3ep 
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  230. Labour will remove all the billions in trickle down policies and end Austerity which is killing the country and the economy @eightiesmusic1984 
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  231. I hope so, were desperate for leadership after Boris and Corbyn the worst faces of Populism both at the same time
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  232. In Macroeconomic terms it's moving slowly, problem is due to 14 years of trickle down only the wealthy will feel it
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  233. ​@CARLTULLY-tf5qu scrapped Rwanda and deported 10,000 illeagal migrants already And That's 1 of several things
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  234. Corbyn ran a loose ship Starmer does not no loose cannons no midnight posts no retweets of complete crap and engage your brain before you do anything
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  235. You being sarcastic? ​@Sandi80-y3f
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  236. @dm32904  it's politics And What have they been dishonest about?
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  237.  @dm32904  what's in the manifesto is what he was elected one, no one gives a t0ss about internal Labour politics. Especially when it left us with 2 completely unelectable leaders when we needed to boot the Tories out.
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  238. The mission statements come from work done by leading economist Mariana Mazzucato who's ideas are of a whole of government approach combined with industry. It would radically alter how Whitehall works. With Green energy the current issue is the Grid and Planning not money. Check out Mission Economy A Moonshot Guide to Changing Capitalism
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  239. The whole of the MSM tries to paint labour as the worst
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  240. won't
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  241.  @Titus9508  In what way? He'll change the planning system Tories won't He's gonna set UP GBEnergy - all we'll get from the cons is more fossil subsidies There's workers legislation etc.
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  242. Truss was but he's fekin useless it has to be said
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  243. @nickbarton3191  if you put a Clown into Government the Clown doesn't become a Leader the Government becomes a Circus Starmer's current aim is to win by as big a margin as possible & his mission based approach is based on a book by world renowned economist Mariana Mazzucato called mission economy A Moonshot Guide to Changing Capitalism My one worry is Reeve will not clear house at the OBR and Treasury and fetch in some modern economists and get sucked into Treasury group think, it appears the Treasury hates infrastructure
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  244. On the labour website this is just a campaign brief
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  245. Rising Corporate profits are 50%+ of the inflation total and less than 10% is due to wages The top companies have seen profits rise by 12.5% the rail companies made 500 million in profit last year. The money supply has been expanded, giving people wage rises and not squeezing profits is a deliberate choice and the government narrative about greedy workers will be all over Tory media
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  246. a green grid is cheaper than a fossil one by a long way and our current grid isn't fit for purpose anyway
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  247. Why grim? Biden has put the building blocks into the economy for the next decade. Massive infrastructure upgrades and setting the US to be the renewable tech hub of the world. That sort of structural investment has a long tail
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  248.  @Yawnyaman  No Republican has won the popular vote in decades. Never Trump = 53% the only way he can win is to denigrate his opponent and suppress turnout. The reason he was ahead in the polls was the narrative that Joe was too old. The reason he will loose big is women hate him.
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  249. The Tories run an economic model called Supply Side Trickle Down economics aka Thatcherism as ably demonstrated by the current budget and millionaire pensioner giveaway Labour run Keynsian Demand Side Economic model which invests in social and physical infrastructure to put more money in at the bottom thus growing the economy by creating demand. So basically fk off with there all the same the 2 models produce drastically different economies
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  250. If you look at the past 25 years the tax base hardly moved from 33% till Sunak took charge in 2019 since then it's jumped to 38% , the big change was Osborne adding +5% to VAT to start on the relentless rounds of trickle down tax changes which were supposed to stimulate growth but never did. Sunak has followed the Osborne playbook to a certain extent there's billions salted away in what I'd regard as trickle down cr*p and cuts to public services including capital investment in rail and energy. Everyone also needs to be aware any Tory tax cut is going to be paid for by shifting the pension age to 68
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  251. Under Blair tax went down for the bottom 20% and went up for the top 9% plus average wages during the decade rose by +25%
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  252.  @chrisharborne7804  The Corbynistas believe you can just turn a tap from right to left and everything works as if by magic If the Corbyn agenda had been on the table it would have met the same fate as the Liz Truss agenda unfunded spending on a massive scale with huge borrowing requirements would have tanked the market in Gilts. You also can't unpick overnight 13 years of Trickle down Fiscal and Economic policy each change and the impact of reversing it needs to be taken into account. I think the government owned renewables project is a great start to introducing state competition which will pressure the market prices down the more it ramps up The problem with nationalising stuff is the cost for water the ticket price is 18.5 billion OH but wait your also going to have to find 62 billion to service the debt that's been allowed to be pumped into the business. Privatisation is a complete disaster though.
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  253. This is why Sunak and the Tories will be totally fked and the longer they delay the worse it will get I'm betting on a low of 20 points Quote With the energy price cap below £1,300 throughout 2021, UK households spent around £30 billion on energy during the year. In 2023 the projected spend is around £170 billion. This is equivalent to more than doubling the basic rate of income tax from 20% to 45% or almost doubling VAT from 20% to 38%. Just over 6% of GDP
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  254. The Media seem to be sick of the Tory Cr@p, 7 bins, 15 minute cities conspiracy theory, meat tax, Claims infrastructure investment causes inflation, The Oswald Mosley Tribute act, where the party of investment and low tax and don't forget children voting labour causes cancer
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  255. we can tax property fairly its not hard and There provisional agreement between the US and EU moving forward on a global corporate tax rate. We can't go on like this because the state needs more money to pay off the 100% debt to GDP hole were in @khar12d8 
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  256. ​ @Matt-ou7tu whatever you think of Starmer he's his own man
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  257.  @zSilverWingz  let's be clear any form of economic recovery depends on not just big business buying into the Starmer project but expansion by SME'S Also the expansion of northern cities and the link up of Birmingham Manchester and Leeds with a east west link
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  258.  @Matt-ou7tu  Quote Tax cuts and deregulation don’t grow economies – investment does, both private and government. The OBR confirms that the investment multiplier is around three times greater than the tax multiplier.
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  259. ​ @khar12d8 Owen is an elite who lives in the corbynista bubble They dragged the labour party into electoral oblivion
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  260. They've put forward an economic stance under Rachael Reeve "The Everyday Economy" Its a million miles from Thatcherism and low taxes for the top They've put forward a stance on Brexit which is more alignment with the EU to vastly reduce the paperwork crippling business a Veterinary deal alone would sort out the NI protocol And a green new deal to move from fossil (Norway has 93% renewable and 3% inflation) Johnson and his client media suck nearly all the media Oxygen out of the system, the same happened with Trump over in the US
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  261. Corbyn was the epitome of elite socialist populism doomed to failure as was right wing populism both promised to take us back to a time when everything was better, at least you got to see how Right wing populism tore the Con party to shreds  @SonOfExcess 
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  262. there not Tory light the current Tory party given 5 more years will x1000 times worse than any Starmer administration
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  263. What's the point in principled politics if your messages are drowned out by constant messaging from right wing media on boat people Its been wall to wall for weeks Rhishi does this Rhishi does that when in fact he's done fk all bar give us a +£1000 tax bill with the budget NHS broken Justice system defunded and broken Asylum system broken Economy Fked While I may not agree with it I get why here doing it the MSM are trying to rebrand Sunak as the brave new future not someone who is carrying out the same shyte policies that got us here in the 1st place
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  264. If you remove FOM and can't recruit from 20 miles away your recruiting from 2,000 the issue with that is your getting 50% dependants so your 200k explodes to 750k
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  265. He got knocked off the right wing rags by Starmer employing Sue Gray and the Johnson Circus dropped a bomb today The economy is still shyte it needs a complete overhaul to turn it round more right wing guff will just make it worse how the fk do they get ever get a tick for economic competence
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  266. Whoever takes charge after the next election will be fiscally constrained, Liz Truss has torched any wiggle room on borrowing The way of driving forward a new agenda is with things like planning reform, the promise is new towns, there needed in NIMBY Tory voting constituencies. And Planning reform will speed up Grid roll-out were desperate for new connectivity + 1/3 of councils are on the edge of Bankruptcy while dwindling budgets are a factor a bigger one is the amount there shelling out in housing support to the private sector mainly due to the right to buy schemes the Cons keep pumping money into. Some are up to 50% of their budgets.
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  267.  @inspectahwoke5746  creating a state owned power generation company you know red is the new blue :) joking aside You can't unpick overnight 13 years of Trickle down Fiscal and Economic policy each change and the impact of reversing it needs to be taken into account. It needs doing but if your doing it like Mogg is doing the EU law bill it will just blow up with unexpected consequences. I dunno why they get into their heads that somehow its a rebadged Tory you hear it on the media and I suspect its a narrative to try dissuade people to vote Labour. Blair was an arch centrist and his economy was light years different to the last 13 years with pay growth well funded services and the wealth gap stagnat. Cue Torygeddon and a wealth gap that isn't just a trickle of money going to the wealthy its like a firehose.
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  268. I'm still voting Labour, 24k a year in freebies is slightly over average for someone not in Government and he is the Leader after I looked into it. The big gravy train numbers are on the Tory side in government.
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  269. Keir received his knighthood for "services to law and criminal justice" in 2014, following his time as Head of the Crown Prosecution Service from a Tory Government who thought he was Marvelous @JoelJoel321 
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  270.  @markblance8492  He has a mortgage The plan is to move to a permissive system which will unlock the Grid backlog for one thing, the Tories have spent years arguing about Pylons and windmills. There's a huge level of stored development that's mired in red tape and NIMBY ism
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  271. @markblance8492  why would he tax middle England more Sunak has baked in rises till 2028? The sorts of money needed will be from the myriad of trickle down tax breaks and subsidies to corporations embedded over the last 14 years. Planning will change to permissive, councils will be empowered to build with the private sector, land banking banned with use it or loose it. The Tories have created an economic doom loop of cutting services which shrinks the economy then boost gdp with migration without repairing the damage to services, rinse repeat
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  272.  @markblance8492  tax base has been pretty constant these last few decades at 33%, currently its going up because from 2010 to 2019 the Cons kept borrowing in 2010 debt to gdp was 62% 1,6 trillion later in 2019 it was 92%. Come cov then Truss they've really blown up the debt to 99% of gdp. We borrowed 130 billion last year and have interest payments of 120 billion, the Cons couldn't run a bath let alone the economy never could
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  273. He's a manager of a team by all accounts a very good one that delegates and takes responsibility he does come over as dull which isn't a bad thing Look at what Milliband Reeve and Nandy are talking about the issue is also non commitment on spending not surprising how fked the economy is they will have to deliver or he'll be a 1 term pm
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  274.  @keithparker1346  since Starmer became Labour leader the Tories have spent 3/4 trillion and crashed tthe economy. People are afraid in the biggest cost of living crisis in UK history. You would need to go back to the Napolionic Wars to get anything comparable The last thing people want at this point in time is false hope
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  275.  @keithparker1346  which manifesto pledge that he put to the country has he broken?
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  276. Everyone I know is voting tactically Tories OUT
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  277. the party of unfunded tax cuts and fantasy immigration policy, Tice is either deluded or lying
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  278. enjoying the 1 trillion hit to the UK economy since 2016 which is causing taxes to rise and living standards to fall are we? @tomsheppard378 
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  279. We've had 14 years of Austerity where real disposable income has on average fallen by 10%, if we don't invest then that will continue Fiscal tightening has not worked, will never work and will see a rise of the far right in response
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  280.  @will121  If you increase public sector wages then wages in the private sector will rise. Depression of public sector wages since 2010 has seen a corresponding depression in private sector pay at the low middle end. The Conservative government then used the Visa exception scheme to import labour to keep public sector wages low.
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  281. The media hysteria has if you believe it I looked at polls the aggregator has them down 1-2 points and the Tories have fallen 4 points Your talking about the emergence of a new right wing party with a credible economic agenda, both the Cons and Reform will not distance themselves from Trussanomics, Reform's manifesto was a straight blueprint of what caused the crash in the 1st place unfunded tax cuts
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  282.  @Owen-sm7ob  Cameron introduced Austerity which shrank the economy more than the cost savings And He did zip migration in fact his key policy of deliberately not regulating the GiG economy saw multinational companies fetch in more than a million workers on zero hour low wage then offshoring the profits. Our current numbers have 50% dependents, why? Because we removed FOM and are shopping from thousands of miles away yet another brexit benifit NOT
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  283.  @zenbaby3396  Our GRID is sized to meet peak demand from 4-7pm. Most Industrial/business usage is during the day a small company could claim 100% of a solar + battery install against tax as a capital investment. It's the batteries that are saving all the money the solar ticks along as solar does
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  284. The way of financing anything is to cut the trickle down cr@p there is literally 10s of billions of stupid tory tax breaks littered all over the system
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  285. Our grid needs upgrading anyway, mass storage opens up time shifting and storage of always on power I've just had a solar + battery install done it is projected to save me £1200 a year, most of that saving is opening up low off peak tariffs from my supplier and using the battery at peak times. Just using the battery to import at low use at high will save me about £600 that's without the input from my solar
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  286. Tax base is up to 35% soon to go as high as 37% the issue isn't the tax on Work its the lack of Tax on Wealth Sunak paid 21p in the £ on around 4 million income A house worth 150k in Burnley pays as Much council tax as an 8 million Mayfair mansion  @madontherun 
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  287. Tories that desperate they can't loose the Bigot vote
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  288. top 3 issues for voters are Cost of Living Crisis, Energy Crisis & NHS Your out of touch if you think the voting Pubic have more than a passing interest in a conflict that has been ongoing for decades HS2 is dead Sunak has salted the earth, you'd need a plan that doesn't cost the earth and runs at the least expensive way possible There's no money to buy water and energy and we own rail its franchised out if you wasted time doing it you'd never get the net zero push we need and it would be reprivatised by the Tories in seconds
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  289. A service can't be measured on cost there's data going round that prove patient outcomes are worse Quote Areas of England with increased outsourcing of NHS services have more deaths of people with treatable conditions
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  290. Labour have to do the Tax and spend dance to get into power and just to show you why we can't have nice things with billionaires and non-doms running the media here's a sample Quote "Families face £1,000-a-year bill for Labour eco plans: Starmer shows signs of wobbling on 'naive' £28 BILLION net zero strategy" Quote "Labour's policy pledges so far would cost the equivalent of a 3p rise in income tax, i analysis reveals." Quote "Get your money out of Britain now – before Labour ... The Telegraph Perhaps there's a shortage of number crunchers at Labour HQ. But it might be that Labour is afraid to reveal its true plan: a wealth tax."
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  291.  @andrewwalsh2755  why round my way there disaffected centerists with a environmental lean there not to the left of anyone except on the environment
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  292.  @firebyrd437  If you want to nationalise something then the the GBEnergy route that Miliband is proposing would convert around 80% of energy production over a 20 year period to state ownership. You wouldn't have to pay for ageing plant large decommissioning costs and taking on corporate debt. If you wanted to modernise the NHS and doctor system you'd need what 2 maybe 3 terms and a long term vision. Housing then the first task is the planning system and a process for approval which takes months not years. Today in one of the papers they have started how will Labour pay for it you'll need +3p on income tax. That by the way is a complete lie the proposals so far have been costed at 20 billion Sunak doled out 8 billion to bankers 2 billion to millionaire pensioners and 6 billion to the fossil industry in the last budget alone. Sunak's fiscal drag will rake in something like 150 billion over the next few years his changes to student loan repayments 4 billion per annum etc. Reeve has to play the game unfortunately they never ask a Tory how will you pay for that tax cut. As a reference I calculated that Osbourne's reduction in corporation tax cost the Treasury somewhere in the region of 300 billion in receipts over the period its been at 19% and generated zero growth because of it.
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  293. No it won't Have you any idea how much waste is in the system, consultants, outsourcing, trickle down tax breaks all over the shop
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  294.  @realhorrorshow8547  investment in renewables Changing planning to a more buyer friendly system Removing the asylum backlog saving 6 billion pa Changing labour laws to remove fire rehire Realignment of standards with the EU allowing SME'S to grow thier exports Yea I'm pissed off about Reeve as well but there's a world of difference between them and the Tories at least I'm going to try do something about it but right now I want the Cons completely fkin buried for what they've done
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  295. Starmer is ruthless and this was the King's speech for fks sake the agenda for the forthcoming government they couldn't tow the line for 5 seconds
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  296.  @evolassunglasses4673  The Conservatives support Globalisation one of their slogans is Global Britain There going to do a trade deal with India and have unlimited migration as part of it You can't run a supply side deregulated economy without a ready supply of cheap labour ask Cameron and Osborne
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  297. His missions are based on this book by Mariana Mazzucato Mission Economy A moonshot guide to changing capitalism If you read it then go back and listen to his mission statements they make a lot more sense
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  298.  @abdvs325  the guy has done large amounts of pro bono work on human rights issues The only thing I have against him is he's an Arsenal fan
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  299.  @kerrynewnham8946  The Corbyn agenda was fantasy socialism leaving Labour in the wilderness for a decade You have a leader with an iron grip on the party there will be no factions no pressure from the back benches no revolts and a 20 point lead and with a fair wind will crush the Tories into oblivion. The Cons have completely fked the economy, there will be no tax cuts everyone is hurting
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  300. what kicked the last round of bigot xenophobia was Cameron/Osbourne deliberately not regulating the emerging GIG economy which the Companies took advantage of by importing eastern European workers to things like Uber we had a sudden expansion in millions often supplanting established UK jobs. The workers paid very little tax and the vulture companies offshored all the profits. I don't blame the migrant workers we have some who came over and are now in different jobs at my tennis club fair play to them they improved their lives but the government that did this did so with a complete callous disregard to what they were doing to the economy and the social resentment it could breed. Supply side trickle down at its finest
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  301. I don't think you could get a wealth tax past the MSM and establishment though it would help Asset holders because at the moment Asset values could fall by as much as 20% so what's 3% now and next year against that backdrop there so fkin greedy they can't see past tomorrow?
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  302.  @kzm1934  I sort of agree the Tories have been blowing money left right and centre on trickle down tax breaks and subsidies as well as all the inefficient outsourcing Test & Trace being the icing on the cake
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  303.  @James333-n2q  this is not so when you dig into the polling data the Labour vote is very efficient.
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  304. and vote loosing, the Tories pedal fear like no other ex Tories have raised an extra 30 billion in fiscal drag, the energy companies last year made > 100 billion in Excess profits squeezing people's incomes like never before then threatening them with a profligate spend spend spend Labour party If Labour hadn't wasted most of the decade following a false Prophet then maybe they would have more credibility?
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  305. Never will be its called trade gravity And our SME'S are getting pounded by it plus there the only thing that will pull the rest of the country bar the City and NI out of stagflation
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  306.  @TheEmbrio  it's in the UK and EU interest to have an agri deal it's in Labour's proposals which means harmonisation of standards The reason it will happen as soon as labour come to power is Northern Ireland an Agr deal removes 95% of NI border checks
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  307. Go look up the policy on renewable energy and Reeve's speeches on the everyday economy The problem is the economy is fked we've had 13 years of Austerity and 7 years of brexit and boosterism back in 2016 overseas investment stopped dead its impossible to paper over the cracks
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  308. If you don't convit the criminals then what's the point in all the macho talk of where the party who's strict on crime just take a look at the stats the Tories are shyte on crime even during the Thatcher era. Crimes per 100k steadily fell under labour and continued while Starmer was head of the CPS till he left in 2013 but the rub is if you defund the Justice system as the Tories keep doing then crime will rise this is a quote from the then Tory government back in 2013 about Starmer. He has introduced core quality standards within the CPS and a quality assurance framework
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  309. Publicly owned generating company is Left wing and we'll see what they do on tax policy There going to windfall tax the +170 Billion in EXCESS energy profits (that figure is over 2 years) Social policies are a waste of time in a cost of living crisis and being out of power for 13 years when most stuff is just broken and needs a long term fix
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  310. there are multiple paths to a goal Changing planning to permissive is Radical Creating GBEnergy setting up a wealth fund is radical They will be done in partnership with business, councils will build again
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  311. He's nationalising energy production just over 20 years and that doesn't involve spending 1/2 a trillion on buying old coal stations or seizing foreign assets like the nuclear plants. With Brexit the push will be to realignment with negotiations on the TCA in 2024 your looking at something close to May Bots deal Immigration is more complex from 2010 to 2019 we had an explosion of Eastern European workers filling low paid zero hour jobs in the unregulated gig economy at the same time as a contraction in services the workers and the companies that employed them appear to have contributed zero to the economy but where a net drain We have low pay and unsustainable childcare provision with no plan to enable women to return to work or families to afford housing
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  312. This is why Sunak and the Tories will be totally fked and the longer they delay the worse it will get I'm betting on a low of 20 points Quote With the energy price cap below £1,300 throughout 2021, UK households spent around £30 billion on energy during the year. In 2023 the projected spend is around £170 billion. This is equivalent to more than doubling the basic rate of income tax from 20% to 45% or almost doubling VAT from 20% to 38%. Just over 6% of GDP
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  313. Do you understand what Neoliberalism is? Just using it as a slur I'd suggest you do some research on economics
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  314. @timwoodger7896  The IMF in 2015 called out Austerity + trickle down a failure in a major rebuke of Osborne's policies and a major study in 2020 dispelled the notion that NeoLiberal policies had any effect on growth bar widening the wealth gap. Both put increasing wealth and productivity at the bottom and middle as the answer to growth. Reeve has been over to the states looking at the Democrats green growth agenda, things will change The only country that stuck with the NeoLiberal agenda post 2010-12 was us
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  315.  @timwoodger7896  If you get completely gubbed at an election do you stand there shouting at the Voters YOUR WRONG Or Do you listen to them and adjust your policies appropriately. Since Starmer became leader the Tories have added 700 billion to debt and crashed the economy people are rightly AFRAID so trust with the economy needs to be Earned before anything
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  316. His paper will back him for 1 reason only Labour will win and Maxwell wants to be seen as a winner the minute there in office the dogs will be off the lead
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  317. If you run supply side trickle down economics aka Thatcherism you have to feed it Supply Side Labour or it doesn't work To reduce immigration you need to invest in Social and Physical infrastructure Cutting off Supply side Labour without structural economic changes just tanks the economy
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  318.  @PrimusPete  couple of things First 75% of the media are seamless with the Tories there just blatant propaganda tools there's a great video by Byline called the Billionaires bitch Second I've worked with no end of managers and he comes over as a team leader not afraid to put people in post who will lead at that department, Reeve is an economist graduate from the LSE
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  319. Given everyone bar the hard right think tanks see neoliberalism as a failure even its bastion the IMF can't see that happening if your not putting up taxes your going to have to rejig the tax system for example to reduce the benefits budget you can rise thresholds and increase the minimum wage freeing up money it's not rocket science  @eightiesmusic1984 
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  320. ​ @DonPedroTheDude GOP royalty from the Bush era. Haley was polling around 20-25% in the primaries even after she stood down. DJT was as usual racist and abusive to her. A lot of GOP women have had enough of him being a jerk not exactly a role model if you have kids
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  321.  @AtlasPharaoh  the enemy of my enemy is my friend I'd also add it does the US no good having 1 party taken over by conspiracy nuts, anti vaxers and ChristoFascists
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  322. @michaelmccomb2594  being socially Liberal while being a raging Thatcherite on economics doesn't make him a centrist + Austerity which basically shrank the economy. He was told back in 2013 the economic paper it was based on was a pile of cr@p and the OBR estimated economic multiplier wasn't 0.5 it was calculated as costing 1.6 so actually shrinking the economy
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  323.  @michaelmccomb2594  The thing Tories fail to grasp is Thatcherism was a One Off the tax cuts where paid for with Oil money and they didn't generate the growth. If your interested Origin Story did a couple of excellent podcasts Centerism : Stuck in the middle with you Neoliberalism : everything is for sale
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  324. There isn't going to e a 2nd Trump Presidency he is completely off his head, if he pleads insanity he'll get off all charges The guy is completely MAD
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  325. See how a Conservative government would handle things? We know what they would do Austerity in steroids with 12 billion in cuts and raise the pension age as well as continued pay suppression in public sector done by mass migration from the 3rd world. They have zero chance of returning to power they look absolutely stupid every time there on TV because they can't hide there incompetence and failure anymore
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  326. no he wouldn't I remember Wilson as well different Times Starmer is centre left. Blair's centrism would never have countenanced setting up GBEnergy let alone spending 28 billion on it  @adriftinaboat3452 
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  327. I listened to this it was OK the guy Robert Colvile, director of the Centre for Policy Studies (CPS) Believes in small state Low Taxes - converting Thatcherism to a religious cult open your eyes the attempt at small state low taxes has after 13 years imploded in on itself and ended as high taxes fked services expanded state. Supply side trickle down expands the wealth gap removal of regulations ends up with tons of shyte in our rivers and sea and labour shortages are taken care of by banning strikes while allowing zero hour and fire rehire. so much for small fkin state more like fascist state
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