Comments by "Greg Greg" (@SlowhandGreg) on "Nigel Farage unveils Reform UK economic policies: 'We are skint'" video.

  1. It's not easily explained or we get into stupid analogies over household debt
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  2. A generic tax cut grows the economy enough to return +20p to the treasury for a net loss of 80p
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  3.  @robertedwards2442  The Blair government as in new Labour was Centrist. We haven't had a centre left government since Wilson
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  4. 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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  5. ​@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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  6.  @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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  7. ​ @shaun906 they don't that's why they can claim they would be successful
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  8. 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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  9. Our economy was stagnant before Brexit, all brexit has done is give us a good kicking while we're down
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  10.  @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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  11.  @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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  12.  @Will46666  The current bunch of Tories are hard right Thatcherite nutters, Rhishi takes his orders from Policy Exchange the anti net zero Libertarian think tank.
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