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

  1. we'v had 14 years of failed trickle down after trickle down policy that has just gone to debt Austerity , failed - brexit failed, Truss Failed 2.4 trillion in debt and here we are
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  2. It's not easily explained or we get into stupid analogies over household debt
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  3. Should spend it on tidal systems they would be onstream sooner
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  4. And talks complete bollox
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  5. What a gift for Labour BadEnoch and Honest Bob
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  6. Kier will be fine give the right wing media propaganda a miss
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  7. A generic tax cut grows the economy enough to return +20p to the treasury for a net loss of 80p
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  8. Distinctly average Its a very low bar after the Tories.
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  9. ​ @lacdirk it's called Sane washing
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  10. only by the right wing press, we've had no end of achievements in just a few short weeks
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  11. @hewdelfewijfe couple's allowance is 3 mill average family farm near me is 2.5 mill Can they not read how the tax is structured or do they just follow the media narrative like sheep
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  12. The public sector pay rises are a cut in real terms taking account of inflation since 2019 By suppressing pay in the public sector the Conservatives used migration from the 3rd world with associated dependants causing the biggest explosin in legal migration since ww2
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  13.  @robertedwards2442  The Blair government as in new Labour was Centrist. We haven't had a centre left government since Wilson
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  14. Increasing thresholds would cost around 100+ a year billion, it doesn't grow the economy much either so it goes onto borrowing
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  15. Also several studies show increased productivity, the anti home working lobby are surprisingly funded by those owning office space, there is also business pressure from those around office buildings supplying hospitality and services quote from a leading financial article Empty office space is a money pit for landlords and companies that invested millions in purchasing, leasing and retrofitting office buildings to accommodate and attract workers. Rising interest rates, oversupply and declining demand are contributing to the potential downturn.
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  16.  @darrenmccarthy2976  Over the Blaire/Brown era we had +25% growth in real wages Under 12 years of Tory government real average wages and disposable income have shrunk and its not just the current bunch they shrank under Cameron and May as well In 2010 debt to gdp was 62% by 2019 it was 92% all of it spent on tax cuts mostly for the rich we've seen a 40% drop in funding to councils since 2010 as well
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  17. Ah Brexit the gift that keeps on taking from 2018 Historic examples include Britain’s decision to end the unrestricted entry of Commonwealth subjects in the 1960s, Germany’s experience with admitting temporary “guest workers” from the 1960s, and the US ending its labour program for Mexican workers in 1965. Drawing lessons from those experiences, the SMF predicted that ending EU freedom of movement and restricting EU nationals’ right to enter and stay in Britain for work will have precisely the opposite effect on immigration patterns to the one many Brexit supporters say they want.
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  18. Neither has my isa money Or The added value on my house created by decades of government policy designed to keep asset prices rising
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  19. why he wants to grow the economy? Labour don't believe in trickle down and will take money from the top
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  20. ​@davidlewis3773 not true the BOE owns 1/3 rd of it and banks also have to deposit 500 billion with the boe on account Like I said it's complicated
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  21.  @teelo523  UK trade volumes suffer record five-year decline Financial Times 1 Mar 2024 The volume of UK goods imports and exports was 7.4 per cent smaller in 2023 than in 2018, the largest five-year decline in goods trade since comparable records began in 1997, according to FT calculations of data published by the Office for National Statistics on Friday.
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  22. Hostile EU? Where the ones bitching all the time threatening to blow up a protocol we put into law just over a year ago and signed up to what must be the worst trade deal in GB history.
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  23.  @Shmimbleton  nothing like Blair his economy had +25% wage growth since 2010 it's been -5%
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  24. He was DPD so couldn't pass anything it was done by Cameron because he would be paid x4 in the private sector as a perk
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  25. Norway
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  26. Killed by them not dealing with the energy crisis, they could have accelerated the Transition to net zero 2 years ago saving UK consumers billions instead there lying about its benefits and jumping on a short term media bandwagon that understands nothing or is sponsored by the fossil industry. We still have an onshore wind ban and no accelerated planning permission for Grid and infrastructure rollout Quote The OBR concludes: the debt impact of future volatility in gas prices is at 13% of the UK gross domestic product (GDP) to 2050. This dwarfs the debt impact of 6% of GDP for investing in net zero. Second, it investigates the potential of new, growing energy solutions to cushion price volatility 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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  27. Converting from a zero hour contract proposal isn't mandatory from the workers prospective in the proposal. Someone doing full time hours on zero hour can't get finance, cant get a mortgage and is often denied holiday and sick pay, it has been serially abused by the GiG economy as well as outsource agencies to create a low wage economy. 40% of benefit claimants are in work this is a huge burden on State finances 20 billion was spent on housing support last year again why are the government subsidising a low wage economy through taxation?
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  28. @leonardeast4971  I agree she needed to raise money but it was a very Brown budget that only partly addressed the problem. The NI hike was a typical political gotcha to Sunak pre spending all Labour intended tax by dropping employers without funding. + Really bad comms for the other changes. By the way my hospital now has 20 million to remove RAAC.
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  29. Garage's monopoly money economics would completely tank the economy
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  30. Families tax bills went up by 13k over the last parliment and your moaning about a discretionary universal payment really?
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  31. We left its been a spectacular success for the Conservatives who gained an 80 seat majority For the rest of the country its been a complete shtshw why there is no plan never was a plan on how to proceed post Johnson deal The English Nationalists just bang on about imigration like Farage the Libertarian wing like Mogg want full globalisation at a time when the US China and the EU are getting more protectionist To put it bluntly where fked without the single market which is 20 miles away not some fairytale market half way round the globe
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  32. ​ @shaun906 they don't that's why they can claim they would be successful
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  33. Government finances don't work like that in any shape or form. Ex1 cutting police numbers under Austerity increased crime and unsolved crime this affects gdp enough to wipe out the money saved by reducing police numbers Ex2 paying nurses +10% only costs the Treasury 18p in the £, reason the 1st thing that happens is its taxed it then gets spent in the wider economy in a sort of merry go round till its been chipped away by saving.
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  34. Our economy was stagnant before Brexit, all brexit has done is give us a good kicking while we're down
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  35.  @shenkaed  get your information from reliable sources? UK trade volumes suffer record five-year decline Financial Times 1 Mar 2024 The volume of UK goods imports and exports was 7.4 per cent smaller in 2023 than in 2018, the largest five-year decline in goods trade since comparable records began in 1997, according to FT calculations of data published by the Office for National Statistics on Friday.
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  36.  @shenkaed  The drop in real household disposable income would represent "the largest two-year fall in living standards since records began in the 1950s
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  37.  @paulmapp8306  It's not the Tories borrowed 1 trillion from 2010 to 2019
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  38. It was a CATastrophy He lost the childless cat lady vote
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  39. we will have a sensible Net Zero energy policy which will greatly reduce domestic energy costs something the Tories could have accelerated 2 years ago but chose not too This is why Quote The OBR concludes: the debt impact of future volatility in gas prices is at 13% of the UK gross domestic product (GDP) to 2050. This dwarfs the debt impact of 6% of GDP for investing in net zero. Second, it investigates the potential of new, growing energy solutions to cushion price volatility 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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  40. debt in 2010 was 800 billion and 62% of GDP by 2019 it was 92% of GDP the total of accumulated debt in 2024 was 2.4 Trillion so in 14 years the Tories expanded the debt by 1.6 trillion to add context the accumulated debt by ALL labour governments in UK history is around 500 billion
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  41. I don't pay tax on my sipp or my isa savings or the inflated price of my house due to government policy The bulk of my savings are curtesy of low income tax due to oil money and asset stripping during the Thatcher years and the inflated value of my home down to policy designed to forever increase asset prices. I even got a grant at university
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  42. They all would, the Con party is dead, 14 years of failure capped by brex1t and Truss
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  43. The NatCon Brussels event was sponsored and coordinated by Mathias Corvinus Collegium (MCC), a Hungarian think tank funded by oil and gas money. There not Conservative and there not nice people
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  44. Musk's brain is fried by too many drugs. he's halved twitters value and is sucking up to DJT its embarrassing Adding 5o the collection of wierdos, billionaires and swamp people in his orbit
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  45. Grandpa needs to go back to the care home. Hope your all in on Christian Nationalism project 2025 and president JD Vance
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  46. Farage is far right too right for the current Tory party the One Nation group would rebel
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  47. Thatcherite policies have spent 50 years pumping money into boomers, they own their own homes and have over 1.4 trillion in ISA savings and The youth of today are getting fk all
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  48.  @dave710  They have already deported 15,000 illegal migrants, funded numerous infrastructure projects to remove RAAC and push our grid away from fossil fuel and all the economic instability that brings. The last government fell because it didn't address the needs of public services crashed the economy and spent 72 billion in 2023 on supporting the energy companies. The current mob are well below my expectations but 100 times better than the Tories and don't mention Reform they are a joke party
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  49. @RobertMunsterLBR  the government budget IS NOT A HOUSHOLD BUDGET
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  50. The government has spent 50 years of Thatcherite policies giving housing and money to boomers Young people have got fk all now your complaining when it's time to pay the ferryman for previous governments excess
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