Comments by "Greg Greg" (@SlowhandGreg) on "Will Keir Starmer really be more radical as prime minister? | The New Statesman podcast" video.

  1. Changing planning to permissive is Radical Creating GBEnergy setting up a wealth fund is radical
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  2.  @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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  3. Changing planning to permissive is Radical Creating GBEnergy setting up a wealth fund is radical
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  4. Planning Reform and allowing Councils to start building council houses again is radical
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  5. Changing planning to permissive is Radical Creating GBEnergy setting up a wealth fund is radical
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  6.  @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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  7.  @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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  8. @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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  9. He's not but dream on
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  10. 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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  11. 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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  12.  @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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  13. 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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  14. won't
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  15.  @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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  16.  @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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  17. @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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  18.  @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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  19. 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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