Comments by "Greg Greg" (@SlowhandGreg) on "This “volatile new force” will bring down Rishi Sunak | Andrew Marr | New Statesman" video.

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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@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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@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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@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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They did at the Locals
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@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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@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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@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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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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@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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