Comments by "Greg Greg" (@SlowhandGreg) on "Is the Labour Government Doomed by Economy?" video.

@sparkymmilarky Taxes are higher in Europe you watch too much tory tv and believe it
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There moving to a renewable grid away from gas I've just had solar and a battery installed my overnight rate is now 8p it used to be 24p and my FIT rate is 15p even my daytime rate is lower at 21 as long as I use my battery supply between 4 - 7pm Firms also got to write off 100% of their capital costs against investment and small firms will become NI exempt as they raised the threshold, the companies hardest hit are the Weatherspoons of this world that use the U23 rule to pay below minimum and basically prop up a low wage economy
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@albedo0point39 7k and it is saving approx £1200 a year which could end up being more, I have a solar diverter for hot water saving on gas The reason it's gone from 15 years down to 6 is the battery which kicks in at peak times and timeshifts the solar or charges at low rate Couple of factors on battery prices government zero rated them as part of a solar install and prices have dropped for them by 20% from last year. Octopus do a tariff where they buy your stored energy off you at peak times and use it for grid smoothing, wonders of modern technology
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I'm a pensioner the £300 in lost allowance is nothing payment, to some on the breadline they need more but 80% of us have savings and own our own home The last figure I saw was 1.5 trillion held in ISA's
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were sat on the next biggest resource after oil The UK is at the confluence of multiple major weather systems and the bridge to the continent has multiple shallow areas to build offshore wind Did you know a wind turbine in Scotland generates twice as much power as one in England
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@mullenio4200 why not just paying public sector workers a fair rise improves the overall economy and reduces the pull factor on migration? and were not even talking about the opening up of cheap renewable energy
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@physiocrat7143 Paying public sector workers has a positive effect on the economy. It also reduces migration
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Small firms got an uplift to the NI threshold many will see employers go down, the hit will be against the weatherspoons of this world that milk the system Also you can write of 100% of capital investment in the business now Reducing low paid jobs is a consequence hopefully the Investment in infrastructure will compensate for all those unemployed u23 bartenders
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I have a 1935 house spent a couple of years retro fitting insulation including under the floor
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@physiocrat7143 if you'd not noticed the previous government suppressed pay in the public sector then used the post brexit visa scheme to recruit into the lowered wage jobs. This puts downward pressure on private sector pay. If pay is increased then businesses have to increase productivity by investing to maintain profits.
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@physiocrat7143 replacing investment with cheap labour has been happening since 2010. Businesses have got used to it especially since leaving the EU has given them an even cheaper pool of labour to draw from. Both the Tories and Reform claim they can run the same moneterist policies and have lower migration. But migration is a necessary feature of their economic mantra not a bug.
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from a climate denying group
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