Comments by "Greg Greg" (@SlowhandGreg) on "Channel 4 News" channel.

  1. you don't need to pay more tax to change over to renewables there actually cheaper than fossil you just need the infrastructure investment A large gas station is cheap to build expensive to run a wind farm is expensive to build cheap to run power is free for fk sake. What the Tories don't want to do is invest so give out 10's of billions in fossil subsidies and hope the problem goes away by the next election
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  2. ​ @ContactDailyKaizen there trying to not rock the Tory boat if they remove the veneer off then the DUP and ERG will smell blood and bring down another PM Left wing independent sources have been all over this from day 1 even the Times podcast (centre right) and the View (Centerist) have been covering the Tory infighting and train wreck that is Brexit Left of centre podcasts Guardian New Statesman
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  3. It's 2025 on the news I heard and the detail was lite Jam tomorrow its not much use on it's own you need a comprehensive plan
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  4.  @jackspring7709  She has said enough already to be proven a brazen liar, she just won't be as good at it as Johnson was
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  5. Because its fringe
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  6. ​ @DigiDriftZone completly wrong EV'S reached price parity this year with ICE without subsidies and without the economies of scale that are looming as factories gear up. You will have no choice but to create the infrastructure because it is market led, round my way anytime anyone is doing a renovation or extension thier assessing solar We have way more capacitythan your quoting its just not in one time point, the key is to charge EV'Soff peak and to reduce energy consumption by mandating new builds and extensionsare A+ insulated and have solar + thermal solar. Rental property needs to be uprated as well people live in them there not a fkin cash cow to screw people who can't afford to buy
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  7. The estimate where from the OBR and IMF as well as the BOE Sunak thought he could do nothing and it would happen he needed to tackle energy excess profits and we have the Brexit factor on food Tory policy is decreasing home grown food and the energy / fossil companies are projected to make 170 billion in excess profits because of this crisis
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  8.  @crabby7668  the uk has always imported a lot of unskilled labour the macroeconomic picture completely changed under Osbourne an Cameron leading to the decade of stagnation you can pull as many individual examples out as you like but here are the underlying figures Blair / Brown +25% real wage growth including the mining mum wage smaller class sizes better public sector pay Cameron / May Johnson -3% real wage growth -5% in the public sector
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  9.  @marcopalazzo9349  no it isn't fully implemented where still a way off there's biometric checks to come in in September and were not doing import checks
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  10.  @marcopalazzo9349  you know what the funny part is the Conservative party lobbied for 3rd country biometric checks it was our idea
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  11. you don't need to pay more tax to change over to renewables there actually cheaper than fossil you just need the infrastructure investment A large gas station is cheap to build expensive to run a wind farm is expensive to build cheap to run power is free for fk sake. What the Tories don't want to do is invest so give out 10's of billions in fossil subsidies and hope the problem goes away by the next election
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  12.  @susanhawley4102  why? All going to net zero involves is building sustainable infrastructure. It isn't more expensive it's actually cheaper it just has higher up front capital cost and doesn't make the fossil industry boat loads of money
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  13. Biden made America Great Again putting in place infrastructure investment that will result in the US being the world renewable tech leader Trump did a corporate tax cut that went to debt and boosted inflation
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  14. Why would anyone vote Tory? Your taxes are the highest in 80 years Services are crumbling literally Crime is up convictions down 140 billion in excess energy profits sewage out of control privatisation completely undermined as a total disaster Debt to gdp 62% in 2010 its now > 100% Gdp per capita is 5,000 lower than in 2010 everyone is poorer
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  15. The privatised energy market is making a killing around 170 billion in excess profits while the Cons sit on their hands and do nothing British gas profits up 900% The privatised water industry is pumping raw sewage into the system and borrowing more money to pay out in dividends Tory economics for you
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  16. I disagree fundemantly with the cult like devotion to Thatcherism and Trickle down the market is king but these people are intelligent they just don't have any connections to the working and middle class and get detached from life outside London
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  17. Currently the markets won't lend us Squat after what Johnson & Truss did and will be very wary of a Labour government with trust needing to be earned. Also interest rates are high its not like in 2010 with near zero interest rates & 62% debt to GDP were 100% and 5.5% rates Were paying 115 billion in interest and also borrowed +130 billion last year Cost of water nationalisation is 80 billion alone  @Nick-kb6jd 
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  18. It would be a devolved chamber representative of the regions The policy document proposes devolved powers hint we have a London problem
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  19.  @Nick-kb6jd  of course he is but there are ways of doing it that don't involve huge buybacks you can set up locally owned not for profit generation such as tidal projects turn as many houses into solar banks with guaranteed feed in tariff Cooperative owned not for profit wind farms that give you discount on your electricity if you own a share Etc you need to be creative
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  20. Mordaunt lies her face off but isn't as good at getting away with it Truss is stupid and lazy Kemi and Suella are ERG nut jobs
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  21. Wrong public sector pay is affected by economic multipliers the cost to the treasury is approx 20 p in the pound Look the 1st thing that happens is the pay award attracts tax and ni it goes into the wider economy generating GDP which further attracts tax by the time the merry-go-round stops 80% of it is recouped by the treasury in taxation so your true cost on headline 18 billion is 3.6 billion a mere bankers tax break of a figure
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  22.  @boulevard14  They've dropped Torsten Bell into a safe seat wonder if that's because he will be part of the new team (was head of The Resolution Foundation leading uk economist centre left)
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  23. You'll have high taxation and a failed economy no matter which Conservative leader you elect Were currently moving into a stagflationary death spiral after 12 years of a fairly stagnant economy but without the inflation. Reason being there all going to push corporate tax cuts which will balloon the debt and produce zero growth because - Thatcherism. If you give a tax cut to an multi million pound Oil company it just fuels inflation as it ends up in shareholders and executives pockets, if you give a tax cut to a Tech startup it does nothing because they don't make a profit for about the 1st decade
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  24. Ukraine fights so we don't have
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  25. Every lie is a debt to the truth, sooner or later that debt must be paid An entire manifesto and cabinet built on lies that will consume us all if the rot isn't cut out
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  26. @Gehri_soch2.0  but he isn't most of his problems come from central government and the 40% real term cuts over the last 14 years
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  27. 20.30 has gone so wonder if he'll make it to 20.30 today?
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  28.  What the Western MSM hides!  yea right you really don't understand how this works Putin wages war when the oil price is high he fills his coffers then off they go just map his campaigns on Chetchens and Georgia the war in Ukraine will stop when oil hits 60 dollars a barrel which is round about Putin's production costs. Its down to mid 80's so by Xmas as central banks round the world raise rates it will languish round the necessary price at which point he starts to really run out of money.
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  29.  @dancooper3454  all a Dictator would do is pack it with cronies It's now over 800 due to various Tory PM's dishing out peerages like sweeties, plus donate 1 million to the Conservative party get a peerage. Ledvedev - Lord fa5hers an ex KGB agent Dorrie - soon to be ex MP lthick as mince worst government minister ever Plus a few SPAD's from Johnson's time to get the numbers up of Brexit Ultra's in the lords
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  30. we've had this discussion on another thread my view is we cut the Trickle down Cr*p to be honest I had quite a bit of cynicism a few months back this conference I feel a bit more hopeful, not touching CGT is I think a mistake. The tax base overall will rise because of Sunak's changes from 32% to 36% the effects of frozen thresholds will add 150 billion to the treasury over 5 years and an effective energy windfall tax could really help consumers bringing down energy prices  @keithparker1346 
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  31. Biden will go down as the most consequential of modern times pivoting the US economy to be the Renewable world tech leader
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  32. It's costed at the same price as Truss's corporate tax cuts which will be debt loaded its a here's what could be done
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  33. The reason there doing that is 13 years of failed Tory economic policy Debt to gdp was 62% in 2010 its now > 100% Trickle down Thatcherism + Austerity has completely tanked the economy and we're still hemoraging money In 2023 well pay +140 billion in excess profits for energy companies privatisation has been shown to be a complete failure So let's be clear Thatcher Major Cameron brought the country and economy to breaking point you add brexit ontop and we were always screwed, by electing 3 of the most useless pm's in GB history since Cameron the Tories will implode and rightly so
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  34.  @ezekielrayfield1512  turn off gbeebies talktv and don't read the daily mail or express and you'll be fine, all of a sudden all those burning issues will fade to nothing compared to the real issues in your life
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  35. Listening to Trump is like o/d ing on mogodon He is just depressing
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  36. You need zero hour and low wages in a Tory economy the Ecenomic philosophy is Supply Side Economics + Trickle down. Why are people surprised if you want demand side Economics policy then vote for anyone left of the Tories. Even thhe Liberal Democrats have seen the light of n this one
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  37. I disagree fundemantly with the cult like devotion to Thatcherism and Trickle down the market is king but these people are intelligent they just don't have any connections to the working and middle class and get detached from life outside London. If your perception of the current economic plight of this country where energy spend has gone up from 30 billion in 2021 to 170 billion expected in 2023 is were looking to the future and turning it round while doing fk all about the Privatised Energy Sector bleeding the country dry you need to just GO clear OFF Never darken our doors again Weve still got an onshore wind ban AND grid INFRASTRUCTURE not being built a year and a half on from the start of the energy crisis and YOUR BIG IDEA IS ROLL BACK DEPLOYMENT OF ALTERNATIVES TO FOSSIL FUELS ARGHHHHHHHHH
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  38.  @eltelw8209  the US bailed out Europe the Germans got slowed by the water
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  39. @gjaegreag that's not true you can price cap essential supplies of food and energy you just run it as a war economy for the duration of the crisis your talking a lot of government control but we're at a stage where large numbers can't pay and businesses will start going under at an unacceptable rate
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  40. @gjaegreag no they don't you just tax the super profits (as in the additional profit created by a closed inelastic market with Oligopoly and monopoly companies) and use it to pay them back through the market. Its not like price capping by governments hasn't been done before how do you think they controlled food and energy prices during the war. You could nationalize on a temporary basis while we have the crisis
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  41.  @ratusbagus  It spends 30 billion which is exactly the amount the Truss tax cuts would cost in debt and cuts which will turbo charge inflation even further and not improve productivity one jot. Its costed It covers areas that if the Conservatives have to backtrack politically then he can say I told you so. At the end of the day he has no power but someone with a plan as opposed to the chaos we've had will seem attractive to voters.
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  42.  @nighttrain1236  can't the grid is privately owned their aim is to make money for the shareholders not connect cheaper electricity
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  43.  @Grimeyhoob  forward contract price of renewables is a 10th of Gas prices our market is tied to fossil spot price so the companies with renewable contracts are printing money with the behest of the government
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  44. So you'd prefer corporate tax cuts to manage the problem?
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  45. No its not Where still not checking imports loosing billions in uncollected tariffs We have a smugglers charter no one knows how large scale the problem is The TCA is up for renegotiation next year The on-demand supply chain is completely broken Its taken 7 years to get this far we don't even have a working alternative to a host of EU institutions that we now need to create ourselves
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  46.  @bipolarminddroppings  90% of vehicles in outer London are ULEZ compliant probably 100% of the Tory vote won't pay a charge
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  47.  @gambrydew2059  The reason we have the awful choice thrust upon us is the cacophony of lies peddled by Johnson, a more vain opportunistic lying piece of garbage is hard to see ever being matched in politics. These are the death throes of those lies and the damage that it will do to everyone.
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  48. He's up against Truss who's in the pocket of the ERG
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  49.  @helentyrer3298  no he's just not as bad as Truss who is the female equivalent of Johnson lying all the time and boosterism
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  50. He's not right at all but if your not prepared to go read what Labour's policies are its your loss
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