Comments by "Greg Greg" (@SlowhandGreg) on "Rishi Sunak has failed to change the Conservative Party in 2023 | Andrew Marr | The New Statesman" video.

  1. 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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  2. 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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  3. 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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  4.  @jaimiepotts  we need east west and additional capacity NOW not in 30 years we're decades behind in infrastructure
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  5. 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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  6. 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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  7. 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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