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

At what level of stupidity is this set your controls for a trade war in a cost of living crisis coz only 60% of the Irish voters want the protocol Are they trying to deliberately trigger a border poll and absolute chaos in NI or are they really this STUPID
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The economic roots of this are with Tory fiscal policy Blair/Brown stemmed the bleeding of wealth transfer but Austerity brought it back on steroids Brexit is a multiplier a big one but reversing it wouldn't fix the underlying problems with the economy and unlike in 2015 where debt to gdp was 82% we've run out of borrowing road at debt to gdp of 100% Our economy is knackered I think Starmer is trying to goad Sunak by calling for an early election so that he doesn't because worse is yet to come
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A Con leaflet came through it was solely focused of a host of claims against Labour that was a complete work of Fiction A whole host of lies with zero vision of the next Con government just begging to not be decimated at the election A grubby leaflet from a stained and grubby party If the Lib Dems are the opposition they will hold Labour to account on the NHS and Sewage plus a whole host of other priorities maybe PMQ's will gain some civility
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 @tjmarx there going to investigate all the covid fraud and a new law of defrading the public purse is going to be introduced + Lobbying bans in some shape or form
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No they won't the changes most people are expecting is a rise in CGT, if anything Labour will lower VAT like Brown did in 2008 to 15% to stimulate the economy at the middle and bottom end.
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@Supposedlyimrightwingnow Reform can't do that most of the economic and migration mess is down to the Tories following Farage in the 1st place
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Let's get real the reason the UK wasn't flooded with anti-vax media because we have a high standard public broadcast environment If you want to know how bad it could get look over at Fox and the US and Murdoc's Sky in Aus wall to wall propaganda Also the Con voter base has a high number of pensioners in it who watch wall to wall BBC
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I don't know anyone crazy enough to vote Reform but they have decent polling numbers. Guess some people believe the utter economic tripe both Cons and Reform pedal
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Another 40 by-elections to go before we get a new government
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@TheSuperPsychoKiller but the messaging from the Tories is a complete lie renewable energy is cheaper than fossil maintains onshore jobs. The Tories are also pumping 10's if not 100's of billions in tax subsidies into the fossil industry 10's of billions in subsidies to Nuclear and blocking tidal and onshore wind projects
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@jandavies4400 They have a Chancellor with an economics degree from the LSE and has worked in the BOE, after listening to her main speeches (last one the Mais Lecture) I would vehemently disagree. I'd also point to the appointment of Sue Gray, the Tory idea of do what I say even when there instructing civil servants to break the law or do the impossible because of ideology is over
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@jandavies4400 Why the puerile name calling? Politics is a serious business and The last Con government is the worst in terms of economic performance since the Napoleonic wars. quote Household incomes are on course to fall for the first time over the course of a parliament despite Jeremy Hunt’s national insurance cuts, the Resolution Foundation thinktank has said in its assessment of the chancellor’s budget. Amid almost two decades of falling real wages, the foundation said that after adjusting for inflation, household disposable incomes were poised to fall by 0.9% between 2019 and the end of 2024 – “the first parliament in modern history to see a fall in living standards”.
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@unionjackjackson4352 anyone further right wing than Sunak who is a Thatcherite free market fundamentalist There's a couple of factions in the Con party the Libertarian lot who are mostly in the ERG and the English Nationalist faction the flog em drown em flag shaggers
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Increased legal Migration? @jonathanfell688
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Reform are a dead end, Austerity has shrunk the economy and reduced productivity. You can't run low tax and have growth without migration to cover the lack of inward investment. 2010 gdp per capita was 50k its now 45k were getting poorer well the middle and working class are @mattyneary7223
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@neilross6625 it was may21 post vaccine the rules for campaigning are on the yougov website this was always a Daily Fail dead cat
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Theresa May broke the system blame the Tories for the current imigration shtshw
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They fight so we don't have too imperialism has no limits
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@mesolithicman164 yet look at Hinckley C it will cost 10's of billions in subsidies meanwhile we could have had 2 or 3 Tidal projects up and running at the same cost, multiple wind farms every house in the UK insulated etc. For nuclear this is the Answer not big white elephant projects Rolls-Royce SMR is a low-cost clean energy solution, using proven and commercially available technology to deliver a fully integrated, factory built nuclear reactor
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@chrisd5964 yes probably, I was a technical analyst before I retired the more I look at treasury data and actual contract prices for renewables the worse the problem appears to be in how embedded fossil subsidies have gotten into the system. Our oil and gas fields are bigger than Norway's by a few % points yet they have extracted 500 billion more in tax from them compared to the UK. That includes the Thatcher and Blair years as well as the current 13 years. Subsidies for renewals have been around 60 billion during that period. Our tax base is lower but that's a lot of money squandered
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They will change a lot of things Planning Reform will be seismic enabling expedited GRID rollout + a big push to build council houses. Currently councils are hemorrhaging money on housing support to the private sector
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