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

  1. They've never fought an election under Starmer so there's been no Manifesto Current ones that don't require lots of money and is the most important is reform of the Panning system. Hopefully there's an offer on council house building listened to Andy Burnham the other day he said with planning reform and government backing he could build 5,000 council houses straight off the bat @treadstone1970 
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  2. The Ukrainians fight so we don't have to imperialism knows no boundaries it never stops
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  3. I'm 67 with a degree in Economics and a Masters in Information Technology and really don't care what you think of my English, my essay and report writing days are long behind me. . These where private schools providing public places. Direct grant grammar school The direct grant was phased out from 1975 and the schools were required to choose between becoming maintained comprehensive schools or fully independent schools @ascgazz 
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  4. Probably a machine shop similar to a small garage business there aren't much in the way of records so it can't have been very big @terrapyn99 
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  5.  @richtucker6083  There a bunch of Fash wannabees
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  6. Anyone with even half an education can see the correlation of double / treble energy bills and fossil fuel reliance We cant afford net zero? For fks sake we cant afford fossil you entiled right wing out of touch ex hedge fund me me me idiot? We also can't afford anymore failed Trickle down Thatcherism or outsourcing or consultants or privatised sewage
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  7. The current inflation is Supply Side Corporate Commodities with inelastic demand curves (essential food and energy) We need more energy and food independence now this should have been started to be planned for in February
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  8. nothing
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  9.  @nighttrain1236  no its not you go look the budgets and OBR reports there getting billions to clean up their mess from the brent fields and billions in exploration waivers If you compare Norway to us they've extracted 500 billion more from similar quantities of oil even allowing for differences in tax base where 250 billion light in subsidies and write offs during the years
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  10.  @nighttrain1236  Cost of Dogger Bank Wind farm which can produce 5% of domestic electricity was 9 billion infrastructure cost in comparison Hinkley C costs 33 Billion is 2 years delayed and will have 30 billion in subsidies pumped into it over 35 years and can produce around 5% of Uk domestic electricity. cost per kwh the wind deployment is x4 times cheaper currently Hinkley contract guarantees purchase price + inflation obviously Dogger bank is built and will get get cheaper over time given wind is free
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  11.  @lloydnaylor6113  25 years there budgeted for and you're going to get maybe 5 more + once the infrastructure is built then replacement is a lot cheaper. Everything is recyclable even the blades they just need a big enough crusher then it can be used as crush for road & foundation building
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  12. Same pile of economic bs the Cons sell If your voting based on migration promises don't hold your breath the main drivers of legal migration are the economic polices thier pushing
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  13. The economy is down the toilet and there is nothing Sunak can do to change it even if he had 5 more years things would just get worse even with Labour taking over it will take atime to mend the damage of 14 years of Thatcherism
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  14. And a group of Cons are trying to can the net zero commitment so fossil companies can continue to leech off everyone
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  15. His retail offer is to the Centre left and centre for the centre right his pitch is stable leadership Reeve is following the Democrats playbook trying to copy Bidenomics just on a more limited budget which is the abandonment of Austerity and trickle down When the Tories try to out UKIP the Reform party your analogy looks more like your comparing syphilis to a common cold both are diseases...... The last time the Cons had a centre right candidate was John Major, Cameron ws socially Liberal but a hard right Thatcherite with added Austerity
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  16. I want independence for Yorkshire
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  17. no we don't haven't done for years the latest round has around 100 billion in tax subsidies in them tax from oil is a 80/90's thing
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  18.  @ashleyrayner7949  What drugs are you on?
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  19.  @ashleyrayner7949  so were down to Brexit as a Cult belief system You kind of need to get deprogrammed read and listen to a range of views on the topic not just rattle round your own echo chamber
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  20.  @ashleyrayner7949  we've gone from collapse of external investment to food shortages in 7 years what next for your brexit purity cult ration books? After you've set fire to the economy burnt down our right to live and work in 27 countries crashed our on demand supply chain what have we got to show for it with a bunch of swivel eyed brexit lunatics in charge is the highest taxes since ww2 and empty shelves.
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  21. He'll get hauled up in front of the ethics committee they have the power to Suspend him if they do his constituency can petition for a by election job done but with maximum damage to the Tory brand
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  22. It's a complete clown show Vip lane for crony contracts worth billions 37 billion wasted on track and trace 13 billion of fraud written off Biggest cost of living crisis in 150 years A budget that Breaks the pension triple lock Puts taxes up for workers Gives bankers a 2 billion tax break And we have leaders that are a complete joke if they told you water was wet you'd double check to see if they were lying Oi Tory boys clean up your Big Dogs stinking mess NOW
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  23.  @91Durktheturk  no they didn't loose huge sums and they can offset losses against tax so your arguments Junk, this just taxes super profits
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  24.  @danielcollinson4456  never a truer word said right on the money
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  25. Why there not in power it will never be enacted if they were in power now they'd have straight off nationalised sectors as they went broke rather than continuing trying to prop up a failing market. The Tories are going to straight up waste 30 billion in tax cuts next year this is a what you could have had for that money
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  26. 20% of the US workforce are migrants, the country is built on them
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  27. Cummings is Part of ultra right wing groups across Europe and the US, he is out but not gone and the push by the likes of Farage, Robinson and across the pond Bannon to push insane hard right undemocratic authoritarian polocies will continue. The current government is completely unsupervised by its mp's
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  28. Most cost effective thing anyone can do is insulation and yet the government are so lax on it. We where 5% russian gas what if the government had put thier back into reducing energy consumption by driving up insulation standards and retro fitting public buildings to A+ standards as they dealt with RAAC InActionMan does it again so policy hollow he could double as a balloon
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  29. What if as part of the RAAC refurb the government spent +10% and fitted A+ insulation + solar panels on the roof how much would that save a school in heating and electricity costs? The payback on capital expenditure V running costs is what 2 years MAX Just a thought @rebeccarussell9618 
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  30. Tesla stopped using cobalt in batteries last year, Cobalt is used in refining petrol which is non recyclable. Battery tech is on a rollercoaster and will double capacity and halve costs within 5 years. Perovskite solar is due to hit the shelves next year bringing printable solar to the market. Energy charging can be done off peak go look at the consumption curve in fact EV's will save the energy companies billions due to V2G technology go look it up. et etc your kind of 5 years out of date @steve10 
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  31. Labour did themselves no favours with a leftie populist in Corbyn
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  32. Fastest growing economy in the G7? Were 6th out of 7 if measured from 2019 to present our economy dropped by 11% in 2020 and only gained 7 in 2021 so -4% for the 2 year period THIS IS BEFORE YOU FACTOR IN INFLATION Our economy is truly fkd under the Cons
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  33. Price capping and taxing super profits n fossil won't affect the vast majority of pensioners, your funds are slowly transfered to non volatile investments as you get to retirement. If your pension investors have dabbled with fossil you'd have already filled your boots to overflowing and your 10+ years away from retirement
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  34.  @pigofapilot1  You trade sovereignty for trade access what little we got back has already been thrown away the illusion that you will get anything different after leaving the EU bar being poorer is delusional
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  35. N95's do and its to stop those infected spreading the disease primarily  @AnnyOKtoday 
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  36.  @manmaje3596  we didn't stop economic activity is we shut down parts of the service economy. Large parts of the economy also went remote
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  37. Did you listen to her Mais lecture
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  38. All those deplorable African Americans turning out in their millions and voting for Biden its just not fair, Trump is targeting cities who dumped him hard with his usual racist rhetoric, his beef with Georgia is Atlanta metro, his beef with Pennsylvania is Detroit metro inthat those people cheated and those people are going to invade your suburbs. Old Orange burst is just a washed up white nationalist underneath the spray.
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  39. Because he's a heartless Tory He knows the cost of everything and the value of nothing
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  40. Rome wasn't built in a day the proposals involve devolution of power
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  41.  @boulevard14  last time we had a centre left government seems a long time ago now
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  42.  @crabby7668  don't blame Blair for this Tory shtshw In the Blair / Brown era wages rose and services improved In the decade since the Tories promoted Austerity Shrinking services at the same time they instituted policies that created an expanding low wage economy fueled with cheap EU labour The whole effect is a stagnant economy and. Services on the brink of collapse So the migrants aren't the problem the greedy fkin tories lining thier rich mates pockets are. Read Capital Order how Austerity paves the way for fascism We've been here before in the 30's
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  43.  @crabby7668  the macroeconomic picture completely changed under Osbourne and Cameron who baked in stagnation in 2010 the economy was turning round after the 2008 crash from 2010 to 2019 debt rose from 62% to 92% corporation tax went from 28 to 19% and Osbourne was all in on gig work
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  44.  @crabby7668  The key macroeconomic events that have death spiraled our economy are Austerity, Brexit, abandonment of Green policies All these events have reduced gdp by over 100 billion Austerity - to truly understand the damage done you need read detailed academic papers on various ecenomic and social effects Green policies - the bill for their abandonment to uk consumers is well over 100 billion Brexit - 30% fall in the pound and investment falling off a cliff since 2016 with over 200 billion pound bill and a spiraling contraction of exports and extreme labour shortages destined to drag the economy ever downwards Non of this has fk all to do with migrant labour
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  45.  @crabby7668  1st off I'm retired I worked in IT all my life back in 2019 before the current crisis wind became the cheapest on the OffGem market Second Austerity pulled 4% of gdp out of the economy degrading services at the same time as introducing increased low wage labour due to tax and social policies Third nothing in my sphere shut down during covid only hospitality and travel where affected our business boomed remote decentralised working took off a short factory break To be honest your out of your time your arguing from decades before the world has moved on
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  46.  @crabby7668  your having a laugh aren't you? Wind and solar dropped by 95% in cost over the last decade it was never subsidised in the way your making out it was given a guarantee contract price just like Nuclear and its current forward contract price is below 2019 gas generation price. The Tories don't invest in anything they even got rid of the gas storage facilities As for interminably you can get rid of the gas peaker plants once enough electric cars buses and lorries are connected up using V2G tech and you can create endless amounts of hydrogen with spare renewable capacity
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  47.  @susannamarker2582  Sunak is the Policy Exchanges puppet. They exist to maintain fossil fuel deathgrip on our economy and make sure nothing is invested in our infrastructure all the spoils go to Multinationals and billionaires. Since 2019 tax per household has gone up by £13,000 like I said before Middle and working class people can't afford the Tories. The current bunch couldn't run a bath let alone an economy either you are oblivious to the economic pain and damage they are causing or your that wealthy you can spout ideological nonsense about the size of the state.
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  48.  @susannamarker2582  Sunak made inflation worse and has done nothing to reduce it. When the energy crisis started the main reason the cost of living crisis got so bad was Conservative energy policy. If we have another fossil crisis then energy prices will again go through the roof. Labour's plan to decouple the UK economy from economic price shock from multinational fossil Cartels will do just that. Norway has a 95% renewable grid it had 3% inflation.
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  49. Supply Side Economics doesn't produce a strong economy we currently have Supply Side Corporate Inflation on inelastic World commodities (essential energy and food) we are currently doing nothing to change that in fact current government policy is causing a contraction in UK food production and doubling down on gas. if by some miracle you got growth it would increase energy demand and our electricity market for some reason price wise is geared to the wholesale price of gas ca7sing more inflation which the BOE will treat by raising interest rates.
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  50. It was the only workable leave deal and still is and we will be heading back towards it as soon as Labour are in power
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