Comments by "Greg Greg" (@SlowhandGreg) on "LBC" channel.

  1. People voted to leave the EU not the Single Market Daniel Hannan Vote Leave " Absolutely nobody is talking about threatening our place in the single market" Farage "Wouldn't it be terrible if we were like Norway" Arron Banks "Increasingly the Norway option looks the best for the UK" Vaccine rollout wasn't dependent on Brexit we were still in the EU medicines agency when the started aside from that nearly every EU country has overtaken us long ago and they don't have 155,000 casualties and 1.5 million with possible long covid
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  2. Farage is the arsonists that comes back and offers to help out put fire
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  3. People from the Indian sub continent are pretty socially conservative they have also grown up with the Cast system
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  4. I've just inherited wealth from my parents I'm 67, 99% of millennial's will be pensioners rotting in a flat before they see a bean
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  5. ​ @thegingerbreadgod1312 equating the mayor of London with a radical religious sect
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  6. If he doesn't go in May his party will implode, every week a new low
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  7. How to get Turkeys to vote for Xmas Tell them foreign chickens will take their jobs
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  8. I'm a pensioner and get nothing but increased taxation Cutting NI instead of thresholds just makes me angry, my son is on low pay because of a 14 year squeeze on wages and firms recruiting from timbuktwo to keep wages low. The number of civil servants has to be higher because of Brexit, you need more border staff etc. Arghhhhhh Your not fixing sewage in the rivers potholes from defunding councils housing crisis energy crisis or RAAC crisis
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  9. Nearly all our supply chains for small and medium companies run through the EU. My wife's company gets parts from Vietnam but they come through Germany. They don't become German parts until Thier integrated into product and exported back to Germany. Our supply chain is completely f'd Also Our goods by volume has fallen by 7% since 2019 a figure unprecedented in UK history.
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  10. The Haunted Pencil will say anything that's expedient he has zero morals as well
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  11. Why didn't he raise the thresholds if the value of houses is becoming an issue in the South East? 4% only pay inheritance tax
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  12.  @akal8775  Antifa is a right wing bogey man that doesn't exist, the words origins are from Germany in the 1930's Antifaschistische Aktion It is now used as a general term to describe anyone opposed to Fascism You could use it for example to describe the Anti Defamation League Go read some history books on the rise of Fascism before posting far right nonsense
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  13. At least he won't be p1ssed by 6pm and won't do Wine Time Friday
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  14. Gus has Autism, the connection he feels with his Dad is unique beyond what a nerotypical person feels
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  15.  @suzy7726  because every time he opens his gob like nodding dogs you surge to the internet to justify his bullsh1t
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  16. Elect a clown you get a Circus Where's Ferrari been the last 3 years hiding in a fridge
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  17. There's an official OBR government report on this 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 Dogger bank OffShore wind produces as much as Hinkley C Dogger Bank costs 9 Billion to build Hinkley C build Costs 33 Billion 3 years late and has subsidies over 35 years of 30 Billion
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  18. My Mum is 92 and reads the daily mail she's a bit senile and can put her foot in her mouth at times but you wouldn't have her representing the monarchy. I keep telling her not to say certain stuff but even she wouldn't have done what Hussey did. So my answer is 92
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  19. They don't like Rayner due to the working class background the lowe class especially women should know their place. Johnson is a disgusting excuse of a human being that has cheated and lied to every partner he's had
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  20. Farage is far right he has zero centre in him he's a populist and Libertarian be afraid of this man quote Kwasi Kwarteng made the right decision in swiftly cutting taxes, Nigel Farage said, dealing a blow to global economic institutions which have warned against the economic policy. The former Brexit Party leader praised Chancellor Kwasi Kwarteng for cutting taxes and moving ahead with the policy despite warnings from world economic organisations. Since Friday's mini-budget, representatives from Bank of America, the IMF and JP Morgan among others have sounded alarm bells, saying the economic plan is sparking market chaos. The pound sterling fell to an all-time low this week, with investors worried the plan will hurt Britain's finances.
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  21. It's worse than that Sunak knew before the close date for candidates so he could have swapped them out but kept it under wraps hoping it would blow over
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  22. On average were -7% worse off than in 2010 if you look at GDP per Capita we've been in recession for a year and a half
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  23. we had 8 days straight of beergate and 3 weeks on Ange's council house
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  24. The simple fact is renewable energy became the cheapest source of energy on the grid back in 2019 The government are currently giving billions in subsidies to the fossil fuel industry for cleanup of legacy installations and exploration of new Any Government proposing a Green agenda will not only win but will reduce energy costs across the board within a very short time in office. It takes 1-2 years to build a wind farm it takes 7/8 to build a nuclear reactor and 1-4 to build a tidal system.
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  25. The benefits of membership of the single market are vast Cost of membership 14 billion received back 5 billion pa Additional Cost of Brexit to businesses still able to trade with the EU 27 Billion pa Cost of lost trade with the EU 44 billion Cost to the City of loosing the Euro derivative market alone is 2.3 trillion There are multiple cost savings through joint programs which are too numerous to list but go look up how much its cost the UK to peruse an alternative to Galileo so far
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  26. Have you read Labour's amendment? Thought not
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  27. Our Vaccine rollout is median not leading, the best rollout was Portugal and they used the EU purchasing scheme to pay a fraction of what our government forked out on vaccine doses. They also were part of the EU PPE purchasing scheme which we were invited to which supplied high quality PPE again at a fraction of the cost the Cons and their VIP lane paid
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  28. Looks like a Bribe, smells like a Bribe and walks like a Bribe so it must be a Bribe
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  29. He'll have gotten the case via the list system your not allowed to turn it down
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  30. He's also a security risk at a time of international tension
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  31. Patel, Johnson, Raab, Javid, Sunak, etc all children of immigrants The Queen Prince Charles etc children of immigrants
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  32. The threshold freeze has cost us +£560 in tax giving back £95 is taking the p1ss
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  33. The average person now has less disposable income than 2006 so threatening people with going back to square one won't work were already at square -4
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  34.  @ce017  Your talking about the Eejit that went round leaving passive aggressive notes on civil servants desks having zero understanding how modern networks virtual machines and cloud computing works in 2022.
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  35. In 2010 debt was 800 billion its now 2.63 trillion, BOE rates are 5.25% and gilts have been index linked to RPI, debt repayment last year was 130 billion with government annual borrowing at 120 billion. Yet by magic Sunak spent 20 billion on a tax cut 72 billion on fuel support instead of instigating a windfall tax
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  36. we've just been through the biggest fall in living standards in UK history at -4.2% down and our trade is down and we have a spiralling debt crisis month on month it will get worse UK trade volumes suffer record five-year decline Financial Times 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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  37. ​ @aleph8888 universal healthcare is the cheapest way of running it by a considerable margin
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  38. Millionaire pensioners got a 4 billion tax cut last budget and there going to abolish IHT of course its going well Now get back working serf tax breaks for the wealthy don't grow on trees
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  39.  @neilbradley100  The bulk of the Conservative vote is centre right middle class one nation, a lot of people in my blue wall constituency vote green for local elections
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  40. Real average wages have fallen by around - 6% under the Tories Worst economic crisis in 150 years
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  41. He's gone this is just Kabuki theatre 1922 will compress the timetable, Johnson will get done over by the ethics committee who will conveniently Suspend him long enough for a recall election
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  42. Growth will happen when you don't have people waiting for operations creating millions of sick days eating into company profits with sick pay just 1 example
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  43. Cameron and Osborne I believe and if you look at Sunak's spending proposals for defence there a complete work of fiction
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  44. we've just been through the biggest fall in living standards in UK history at -4.2% down and our trade is down and we have a spiralling debt crisis since when is our economy on the up? UK trade volumes suffer record five-year decline Financial Times 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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  45.  @WordAte  They have settled down. The issue is the supply chain went from overnight to next month if your Lucky so In my small prosperous norther town the hotels can't get staff The local craft gin distillery had it's exports to the EU wiped out overnight and my friends son who was full time in a Show band saw their summer work disappear overnight and has had to go back part time. I'm well connected but this is happening all over the country outside of London, the main economic figures are masked by the service sector it will take decades for the regions to recover it's as bad as the Thatcher deindustrialisation
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  46. You go where the data leads. Reason our economy is down the toilet is following an economic ideology not looking at economic reality
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  47. Why? We already have low corporation tax, last time it went to 19% the big companies spent it all on share buy backs pumping thier stock price. Only aound 20% ended up in th economy ​@mikecook1537
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  48.  @JohnnyRingo-c5v  if you want lower migration you can't have lower taxes the 2 are mutually exclusive. To lower migration you need to pay public sector workers appropriate wages to attract more of the domestic workforce and invest more in training infrastructure and the NHS
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  49. I'm a pensioner, we own our home again prime Tory demographic but my son will never prosper in a Conservative economy he's got 4 A levels 2 diploma's and 4 years experience and is on +40p above minimum wage. At 25 there's no chance of him leaving home other than via the bank of mum and dad With fiscal drag and degraded NHS they've really taken the pensioner vote for granted
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  50. Its worse than that GDP per Capita was $50,000 in 2010 its now $45,000 If you tax working people then give it as in the Millionaire pension tax break of 2 billion it goes from the working economy GDP etc. to get locked in the Asset economy and we tax work not Assets It Therefore shrinks GDP per capita Your then left with a black hole that get's filled by borrowing
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  51. spreading conspiracy theories is
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  52. Sunak was involved in the banking crisis his firm were one of the leading culprits if you want to throw stones then here Quote TCI launched a campaign against the Dutch bank ABN Amro in 2007, which resulted in its sale to the Royal Bank of Scotland (RBS). The deal loaded RBS with crippling debt and led to a £45.5bn government bailout.
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  53. ​@evolassunglasses4673 imigration isn't the problem it's government policy If you allow offshore companies to create 1 million zero hour low paid completly unregulated jobs then import cheap labour to undercut existing businesses ITS NOT THE FAULT OF THE MIGRANT WORKERS. We've always had the ability to create well paid work through government policy and control migration the Tories chose not to
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  54. Long term economic prospects are awful as will be the immigration numbers
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  55. ​ @Edward-cv2gw given the fact the Tories have lowered the bar virtually to the floor he only needs to be mildly competent to be the next coming of Jesus
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  56.  @archvaldor  What honeymoon period the economy is heading down the toilet and it will be near impossible to turn round with the current economic policies. Remember were coming off the back of a decade of shrinking wages and economic stagnation heading into an even worse decade of shrinking wages and economic stagnation
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  57. The non tarrif bit only applies if you have proof oof origin at least 60% and that proof comes in the form of thousands of pages of documentation
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  58.  @markredmond2014  Gary was a trader made a fortune betting the Tories couldn't fix the economy
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  59. ​ @digitalbusker7023 in what way are they Tories? Current lot won't regulate water, don't want to transition to energy independence and won't nationalise the railways or build more social housing
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  60. Corbyn handed the Tories an 80 seat majority on a plate with his Hubris we needed a government of National unity in 2019 yet he would only support himself being PM and went to the country with a poll rating of -72 +12 The guy was a complete political car crash this post 2019 veneration really is sickening given what he did and what's happened to this country since 2019
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  61. Quote Large tax cuts for the rich lead to higher income inequality and don't fuel economic growth or cut unemployment, a new paper by academics from the London School of Economics and King's College London says. Their analysis of 50 years' worth of tax cuts for the wealthy in 18 countries counters arguments that such cuts "trickle down" to the rest of the economy. "Cutting taxes on the rich increases top income shares, but has little effect on economic performance," the researchers concluded. EndQuote All she was doing was piling up public debt
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  62. If you put a Clown in charge of Government the Clown doesn't become a Leader the Government becomes a Circus
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  63.  @Dynasty1818  Back in 2013 Osborne was told that Austerity was killing the economy 11 years on the Sunak / Hunt plan is tax cuts + 14% reduction on spending aka Austerity on steroids If you look at GDP per Capita we've been in recession for 2 years
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  64. Breverman has around 15% support in the wider public according to polls in the US there's a 40% bottom on Republican support (red team blue team)
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  65. Its limping along the Energy Sector is making around 170 billion in EXCESS profits over the next 2 years the Tories are refusing to implement the windfall tax
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  66. You don't fuel a conspiracy theory, your trying to turn incompetence into some shadowy plot
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  67. If you want to lower immigration you need to invest in training your domestic workforce, increasing public sector salaries so it's not pulling in cheap foreign labour and invest in infrastructure as well as massively overhauling labour laws and regulation getting rid of zero hour low wage and cutting out outsourcing or having full transparency of workers pay and conditions if you are. Low tax = high migration it's a feature not a bug
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  68.  @-The-Darkside  what did they lie about? exaggerated maybe but Corbyn's economic plans would have made the Truss market fallout look like a training exercise
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  69. ​ @5uper5kill3rz 50% only are owned by families. The cost of a family farm has been going up because rich people are using it as a tax dodge Family farms near me go for 2.5 million which is below the 3 mill threshold (Yorkshire)
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  70. Our Vaccine rollout is median not leading, the best rollout was Portugal and they used the EU purchasing scheme to pay a fraction of what our government forked out on vaccine doses. They also were part of the EU PPE purchasing scheme which we were invited to which supplied high quality PPE again at a fraction of the cost the Cons and their VIP lane paid
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  71. The debt to GDP ratio was 62% in 2010 when the Conservatives claimed the country was bankrupt, Cameron / Osbourne instigated a corporation tax cut that they promised would stimulate growth in 2015 by 2019 the debt to GDP ratio reached 92% and there was zero real GDP growth in that period but the wealth gap exploded. During the pandemic we printed loads more money and guess what has happened oh look over that period Billionaire wealth doubled Under Truss's tax plans inequality will skyrocket as will inflation if you give a corporate Tax cut to everyone the up and coming Green energy startup is ploughing all its resources back into the company not paying tax but the BP Ladbrooks Hedge funds Banks will get a huge windfall funnelling the money to shareholders while further expanding the Debt and exploding the inequality gap. As of December 2021 we were debt leveraged at 102.8%
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  72. On average were -7% worse off than in 2010 and were supposed to stick with a plan that is making us poorer Rhisi-cetion here we are
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  73. As part of Sunak's tax shenanigans with freezing thresholds till 2028 then using the money for NI cuts as a pensioner my tax has gone up by +£560 and then offering me £95 back is a insult Why didn't he use the 20 Billion to raise thresholds for everyone instead of giving a narrow band of those in employment getting +32k and less than 55k a tax break?
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  74. 4 out of every 10 people retiring at 66 will do so into poverty
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  75. The 1st thing they did with it was give it away, all trade deals trade sovereignty for access
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  76.  @bugwandis  "collective punishment " is a legal term under the Geneva convention its no wonder it got superseded it needs deliberating via a court.
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  77. given he hasn't enacted any policies yet your comment is pretty unhelpful He's offering a centre left, centre vision + showing the centre right there will be stable government as the Tories try to out UKIP the Reform party. If you want more left wing policies move the Overton window to the left don't start blaming Kier for moving enough to get the Tories out of power.
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  78. I'm a retired boomer bought my house cost 3.5 times my salary Interest rates were at 8% at the time though. I also got free higher education, tax free savings and low tax paid for by Maggy with oil money and asset stripping. Granted I had a decent job but there is little excuse from my generation about paying more tax and given how ISA'S are tax free i don't pay much of that either
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  79. SNP put in a motion to try stir up trouble in the Labour Party The CON's put in an amendment to Block Labour submitting one, they do it all the time so no meaningful amendment goes forward and the whole debate becomes pointless on an opposition day motion. Well done speaker is what I say less of this political shenanigans
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  80. reshoring energy production with renewables which will create domestic growth unlike the Fossil fuels which zip off to an offshore account and the world commodity markets
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  81. You not been watching the Tories turning the economy into a Skip Fire for the last 13 years?
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  82. I thought Cameron would be OK and that the Tories had drifted to the centre that illusion last about 5 seconds when Osborne put up VAT
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  83. JC wasn't really Labour or a team player worst leader you had and managed to unilaterally turn off older voters
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  84.  @markwelch3564  for CGT tax purposes she didn't need to live there just claim it's her primary residence. As she was on PAYE there is no requirement to make a non tax declaration so there is no paper trail. You can also offset home improvements against CGT this allows landlords to maintain property without having to pay tax on it. The property was however never rented out. So a lot of Tory noise about nothing
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  85. If you have a renewable grid it has mass storage nodes on it, these nodes would save their infrastructure cost in just over a year. and Wind, Solar energy input is free and not subject to inflation unlike Fossil which has extraction, processing and transport costs so will always keep rising in cost. The estimated cost saving to consumers to move from peak Generator plants to mass storage is -20% and this is based on installations in other countries currently running.
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  86. Tom I think you need to do a course in economics Anyone uttering the words "Loading for future generations" looses any credibility to talk on the topic.
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  87. Jonson was p1ssed by 6pm most days
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  88. Galloway is a foghorn that will say anything that he finds convenient
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  89.  @viewer.123  The information I have is the tax threshold for a couple is 3 million which puts the majority of farmers outside the tax and 50% of farm land is not owned by the farmers that farm them which has skyrocketed land prices
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  90. how many people would even know it was the EU anthem but the politically engaged class
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  91. “Every lie we tell incurs a debt to the truth. .” The next time you are about to lie, or participate in a lie, consider whether you are willing to pay the debt from the lie in the future.
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  92. You weren't going to vote for him anyway It's a political calculation that the last thing he and Labour needed was an Abbot Gaffe half way through the campaign especially as she is in her 70's
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  93. His family were pretty tight on money growing up his mother had a severe illness she worked in the NHS and he got a scholarship to a private school then on to Leeds Uni He was also the 1st person in his family to go to UNi, same with me it was a big deal back then my dad was a builder the % was around 14
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  94. He supports Trussanomics We know where that leads
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  95. Putin's corruption machine is hard at work among all the far right leaders in Europe filling their heads with populist garbage using them to divide people. Cambridge Analytica was used by vote leave and enlisted their mate Vlads help. There's also talk of Ledvedev being used to pressure Johnson onto the vote leave side. From a Senate Hearing Political consulting group Cambridge Analytica used Russian researchers and shared data with companies linked to Russian intelligence, a whistleblower told a congressional hearing on interference in the 2016 US election Wednesday (16 May). Christopher Wylie, who leaked information on the British-based firm’s hijacking of data on millions of Facebook users, told a Senate panel he believes Russian intelligence services had access to data harvested by the consultancy.
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  96. The estimated -6% would have generated 50 billion enough to maintain tax thresholds in line with inflation and put 20 billion into sorting out RAAC
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  97.  @ChrisSavenSH  Mine rest in my wallet I couldn't give a stuff if they let all the refugees in at this stage round were I live there's chronic shortages of staff at every level. We could do a recruiting drive in Calais see how many doctors and Nurses from Afghanistan are there and fast track them
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  98. I think it's funny the Cons are getting everything they deserve
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  99.  @keithparker1346  I think lib dems as the official opposition would be great
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  100.  @lestrem11  Go read up and stop believing Tory propaganda, the EU are methodical and it ended like the Tortoise and the Hare with the bulk of EU countries ahead of us after we made a fast start. We were also part of the EU medicines agency so having the vaccine early was nothing to do with leaving the EU. Our initial policy and burst of speed was down to gambling that 2 doses could be given further apart than the 2 weeks recommended which is why everyone else caught up and we ended middle of the pack For that middle of the pack position the current government have wasted tens of billions and have a wretched record on death per 100k with a fairly staggering overall total at 156,000 August 2021 Guardian and New European - 6 countries have overtaken the UK rollout so far Financial Times - EU wins vaccine marathon after UK sprint September 2021 Sky News - multiple EU countries overtake UK rollout
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  101. ​ @aleph8888 if it smells like a tax walks like a tax It's a Tax
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  102.  @FreaksSpeaks  why it should never have been charged in the 1st place like everything its miserly penny pinching and under investment while billionaires and corporations Swan around tax free
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  103. It had the possibility of destabalising world bond markets as it is government debt is +2% more expensive than 10 days ago and the BOE has pumped 60 billion into the system in QE to stop a bond collapse
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  104. Aside from budgets not sure this government will be able to limp on much after May the issue dividing them are still there ERG see Brexit as a way of promoting trickle down low tax low regulatory standards One Nation Tories see the current shtshw and despair with sewage in rivers and sea, fracking back on the menu and chaos around every corner The red wall see Brexit as English nationalism and leveling up let the next round of infighting begin
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  105. A health service pay rise will have an economic multiplier of a minimum of around 0.8 and if the pay rise enables less recruitment and fewer days spent on agency staff + higher patient throughput that value can be > 1 Anything over 1 pays for itself 0.8 costs the treasury 20p in the pound The 1st thing that happens with any pay rise is the government take their slice back for a graduate that's near on 50% these days, the rest is spent in the wider economy where it starts its merry go round of spend and tax
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  106. Trump is even crazier than he was 4 years ago and this is the Roe v Wade election also she is highly qualified
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  107. The best suggestion on this is to move to a fairer property tax so that 8 million mansion in Mayfair attracts an appropriate tax rate
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  108.  @Horizon344  let's reword it shall we to what it really means Should we become like North Korea and close our borders completely no one in on one out. You can't allow people to emigrate if you don't allow immigration last year 500,000 people left the UK to live elsewhere permanently. We should then force al 18+ year old women to start having children if they disagree send them to camps and have them reprogrammed because the birth rate is way too low at 1.6 without immigration to supplement the workforce the economy will implode. Now the final piece our elderly are living to long and are no longer useful to the state raise the state pension age to the point where only paying 2% in gdp on pensions
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  109.  @FishingFan2  Your forgetting tactical voting
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  110. And what have you won? The vote was to leave the EU not the single market. Free market fundementalism is a scam by the supported by special interest groups. They don't care how many businesses go under as long as they make a bit more money.
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  111. There have been worse, he's been watching GB news I pop by for a laugh sometimes can't take more than a few minutes The brexiteers are all starting to suffer from Stockholm syndrome
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  112. They all are
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  113. ​ @randomdaveUK there UKIP voters who lent the Tories thier vote, profile over 50 male mostly uneducated and socially Conservative would be at home in the BNP
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  114. Labour support a 2 state solution and a ceasefire what else do you want?
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  115. The choice between a spineless weak Sunak who puts party before country (like every Con leader before him which is why were in this mess) and Ruthless shameless Starmer I just want the Cons gone permanently
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  116.  @MCDONALD6969  there locating to Ireland because its in the EU and transferring from the UK as we are no longer the gateway to Europe. The EU have pumped millions into Ireland transport network and major shipping now goes directly there before distribution. Holland is another big beneficiary of Brexit If you want to promote growth you do it via targeted investment, blanket tax cuts cost the treasury approximately 80p in the £ in lost revenue
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  117. The average person now has less disposable income than 2006 so threatening people with going back to square one won't work were already at square -4
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  118.  @1anhunter1  Labour will be socially centrist and economically centre left. The overriding problem you had was the lack of the centre right standing up to the hard right. My own MP was One Nation with the spine of a jellyfish. Our current economic plight needs interventionism it has done for 14 years which is why the economy has remained stagnant and has shrunk in real terms over the last 2 years and that means abandoning the economic tenants of Thatcherism.
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  119. Fascism relies on the removal of critical thinking, I re read Animal Farm recently the current path is scary
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  120. He's promising to reverse 14 years of cuts, the Tories have also hollowed out our military we have a tax base that has risen from 33% to 37% and still rising with Sunak freezing thresholds till 2028 and a future Tory government raising the pension age to 67 how much Tory waste is in there? Outsourcing is expensive and Ideological
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  121. There was someyhing on about enabling them to be replaced with agency workers from Shapps, like that worked well for P&O maybe we should get some Filipino train drivers on £2 an hour and have their contracts offshore. With a bit of effort we could go back to serfdom if they like
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  122. Remote working was already coming in due to various reasons its just accelerated because everyone upgraded their systems during covid to keep working
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  123. If you have a renewable grid it has mass storage nodes on it, these nodes would save their infrastructure cost in just over a year. and Wind, Solar energy input is free and not subject to inflation unlike Fossil which has extraction, processing and transport costs so will always keep rising in cost. The estimated cost saving to consumers is -20%
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  124. SNP put in a motion to try stir up trouble in the Labour Party The CON's put in an amendment to Block Labour submitting one, they do it all the time so no meaningful amendment goes forward and the whole debate becomes pointless on an opposition day motion. Well done speaker is what I say less of this political shenanigans
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  125. This is the worst government in UK history of any stripe if you look at the economic numbers I'll give you a few for free Lower living standards after a 5 year term (again never been recorded in UK history) Biggest drop in living standards in a 2 year period (4.2% of falling GDP per Capita) highest inflation in a 2 year period average 20% etc
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  126. ​ @chrisj9700 pull the other one our economy was 90% of Germany's in 2016 its 70% now As backward logic goes try studying macroeconomic data I have plenty were that last one came from rather than parroting Daily Mail Boosterism Here's a freebie the EU gdp is > now than when we left
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  127.  @haraldschuster3067  :) Sad but true
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  128. Quote Chancellor Rishi Sunak held a US green card - allowing permanent residence in that country - while he was chancellor, his spokeswoman has said Quote US green card is technically known as a Permanent Resident Card. ... Sunak was responsible for negotiating with the US on behalf of the British people while holding the residency card of that nation
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  129.  @lestrem11  What the NHS staff? The government could have used internal NHS procurement lines to get quality PPE at a fraction of the cost and within a shortened timescale instead Billions has been wasted pretty much the same story with test and trace
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  130.  @ce017  He's living in a different reality to what is on the ground in 2022
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  131. My Brother moved to Norway 8 years ago the standard of living over there is light years better off even the prices are about par since 2022 A 3 bed house in the country with 9 acres 1 1/2 hours from Oslo 40 minutes from a ski resort and near a Lake cost him 400k
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  132. The benefits of membership of the single market are vast Cost of membership 14 billion received back 5 billion pa Additional Cost of Brexit to businesses still able to trade with the EU 27 Billion pa Cost of lost trade with the EU 44 billion Cost to the City of loosing the Euro derivative market alone is 2.3 trillion There are multiple cost savings through joint programs which are too numerous to list but go look up how much its cost the UK to peruse an alternative to Galileo so far
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  133. smoke and mirrors fiscal drag on Thresholds which are frozen till 2028 claws most of it back and some more to boot 12250 should be 15000 accounting for inflation
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  134. Every economist outside of Tufton street Libertarian network has been saying this sine 2012 when the data came in on how disastrous Austerity was. It ended up being political so Cameron and Osborne doubled down on ideology over fact and gaslight themselves to a 2nd term, the political fallout from that was the rise of UKIP and "It was the EU honest Guv"
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  135.  @markwelch3564  Why would someone on PAYE think they needed to get involved with a tax accountant
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  136. Your getting fiscal drag with 20% rates frozen till 2028 currently its 12250 it should be 15000
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  137. no they don't The problem the Tories have introduced is we still need supply side labour for a Thatcherite Tory economy but that now has to come from places like Nigeria and India and the people won't come without dependants You can't have a low tax Tory economy without the low wage supply side immigrant labour source that fuels it If you want to reduce immigration change the economic model to one with a fair progressive tax system and fully fund social and physical infrastructure moving to a demand side economic model
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  138. Now Now I voted not Tory don't paint all pensioners with the same brush What's weird is I've got more Left wing as I got older not that I was ever right wing just a moderate like most people
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  139. You can get an EU VISA for a whole range of Jobs
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  140. England Football team are more consistent
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  141.  @goot-if4km  what's that got to do withh the near 1 trillion lost to the economy since 2016?
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  142. Pensioners don't pay NI so freezing thresholds and using the money to reduce NI has a net affect that those on 32 - 55k have a few pounds while everyone else including pensioners saw their tax rise. What's even more galling is with all the outsourcing and bad management were getting less but paying more AND they had +2 billion in extra borrowing
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  143.  @Jw._02  Boris's economic record is way worse than Brown's by a country mile in fact you'd have to go back to the Napoleonic war to find real wage growth in the negative for such a long sustained period.
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  144. 2 times fk all is still fk all
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  145. It's political posturing All parties have backed the 2 state solution for decades the motion is pointless the uk has no political sway over Isreal, all this does is breed more contempt for the snp
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  146.  @tmc1054  My 1st job out of Uni was working in a factory in an ex mining town, given what Thatcher did to those people I've voted tactically against the Tories ever since and always will.
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  147. JC was the worst you've had saw the bleed away of older working class voters away from Labour
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  148.  @FionaHedges  and why wouldn't we? Nothing labour have done so far is perticulaly radical. My local hospital got 20 million to remove RAAC My son got a pay rise.
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  149. not bad I'd put it on the list
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  150. Quote TCI launched a campaign against the Dutch bank ABN Amro in 2007, which resulted in its sale to the Royal Bank of Scotland (RBS). The deal loaded RBS with crippling debt and led to a £45.5bn government bailout.
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  151. Most people were appalled at the terrorist attacks on Jewish people. Most people are appalled at the indiscriminate bombing of Palestinian civilians. Israel has had 50 years to sort this out since taking over parts of Palestine instead they've allowed more and more settlement of occupied territory.  YaakovAltmann 
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  152.  @dufud  Starmer is a technocrat stuff happens in the background you don't hear about he's not a gob on stick like Nige
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  153. I dug a bit deeper into this and there a whole host of Issues bar the Dublin Accord there's information sharing through EU bodies as well. What seems to have also happened is any safe country agreement with the EU for repatriation say to the llikes of Albania is now null and void with the UK. The Albanian authorities claim the Albanians turning up on our shore haven't come from Albania they appear to have been floating around Europe for a number of years what seems to be happening in the EU is security has been ramped up over the last few years with frequent ID card checks for travel and work. We have no ID card so they can disappear into the dark economy easier.
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  154. Blair. / Brown +25% average wage growth Cameron / May / Johnson -6% There's also been aa steady decline in average disposable income since 2010
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  155. It's called a Rhisi-session
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  156.  @coderider3022  And what difference does that make? IHT wasn't going to be changed and the NI cuts were just making people like me worse off because of frozen thresholds. Worse still it was pretty clear they were going to ramp up retirement age to pay for the shortfall
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  157.  @chatham43  Average wages falling by -7% since 2010
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  158.  @Deathwish026  it doesn't save money though, a fit and healthy workforce produce more gdp hence more tax It's the same dumb argument they use with public transport The Tories have been killing off there main voting block anyway the average age people are dying at is going down
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  159.  @colliehouse3133  Where the loosers The benefits of membership of the single market are vast Cost of membership 14 billion received back 5 billion pa Additional Cost of Brexit to businesses still able to trade with the EU 27 Billion pa Cost of lost trade with the EU 44 billion Cost to the City of loosing the Euro derivative market alone is 2.3 trillion
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  160. Since we left the EU the illegal immigration problem has gone through the roof funny how working with ur partners and allies kept the numbers pretty stable and Since removing FOM our legal migration has exploded because we can ship people in from the 3rd world at knock down salaries but there now permanent and fetch their dependants. Nige talking BS in the 1st place given he's partly responsible the Visa points system was a UKIP policy before the Tories adopted it
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  161. ​ @chrisj9700 our economy hasn't grown in 14 years maybe you should take a primer in macroeconomics GDP per capita has fallen 7 quarters straight what's propping up Real gdp from a technical reccesion into a full blown depression is immigration
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  162. they increased average wages by +25% the NHS, Justice System and Schools where well funded which is what the vast majority of people care about. I read a lot of Economic papers and a few have charted a Brown tenure to 2019 using economic models of his policies post 2008 and give the economy a +15% growth in real average wages as opposed to the utter stagnation of 13 Tory years
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  163. He wasn't sacked for being on the picket line
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  164.  @margaretfarrell5137  Blaire was a centerist new labour was in response to Thatcherism the whole of the Labour Party are a lot further left than Blaire's new Labour Starmer and people like Reeve, Nandy are Centre left and appear pretty pragmatic the Left wing of the party keep getting thrown out of the shadow cabinet for having the discipline of a two year old they have a lot to contribute but they need to move on from Corbyn stop trying to push 1001 policies all at the same time.
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  165.  @banky4943  It has already the Tory government Chaos has stopped
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  166. His defence spending commitment is unfunded as well as the 75 billion being made up from data from 2 different data sets, there defiantly tough on defunding spending on the justice system and quote Amid the ups and downs of technical recessions is a bigger picture of stagnation. GDP per capita grew in early 2024 for the first time in two years, but it is still down 1.3 per cent over this period, and has grown by just 4.3 per cent over the past 16 years in total. In contrast, during the 16 years running to the financial crisis in 2008, it grew ten times as much – by 46 per cent in total.
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  167. were short by around 5 million, also around 2 million need to be council houses Councils spent 20 billion on housing support last year, Tory low wage Britain for you
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  168. ​ @gordonsmith8899 we're back to the damage done by Austerity the constant cuts degrading pay and burgeoning workload leading to low moral high turnover which impacts quality.
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  169. ​ @rewdwarf123 brexit really screws over SME'S sole traders farmers & fishermen so 60 % of the working population with little to no chance of expansion
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  170. Its only if your in the EURO zone
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  171. Corporation Tax isn't driving Multi National Business from the UK its the Loss of the On-Demand Supply chain what once was friction free overnight delivery can take weeks and involve thousands of page of paperwork and red tape. Where also a regulatory basket case who knows what standards will apply tomorrow. Regulatory Alignment = free flow of goods tariff and paperwork free with a single tax points for VAT Regulatory Divergence = CHAOS I'll give you an example my wife deals with the company exports as well as all the paperwork and the bulk of exports no longer reaching the 60% threshold VAT codes have gone up from 3 to 27
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  172. Around 20% of the people in the UK economy have done pretty well under them, their house prices have risen 25% in the last couple of years and 66% since 2010 and they have no mortgage. Blame it on Boomers
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  173. I live near a load of private schools one of them has large stables they all have loads of foreign students, there businesses and removing charitable status will have zero affect on their business model. EX the nearest charges £36,000 pa for borders £15,000 for day pupils like how many nurses have 15K spare for school fees?
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  174.  @CB1000FP1  Just by moving to renewables and ditching Fossil subsidies saves us a fortune The FT 250 is already up +1.18% on a landslide Labour win and anticipation of easier trading relations with the EU
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  175.  @QwadLuzr  Renewable energy is cheaper by some considerable margin its also not sensitive to world commodity markets. As an example offshore wind costs £40 per kilowatt hour OffGem spot price with the gas peaker stations is £200+ As you have more EV deployment you can use their batteries via smart meters to load balance the grid reducing the need for so much gas standby. The fossil companies have a multi trillion business to protect so will use any lie or lever influence on government to slow down transition.
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  176. Marr is pretty much a centerist the current Tories have moved far right into Ukip territory He's given a fair shout to Conservatives its not his fault they won't be interviewed by him
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  177. Still doesn't validate stealing stuff
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  178.  @leolion9535  Pensioners and the people I grew up with that got a council house near free and believe its all foreigners fault
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  179. @user-sd3ik9rt6d  not 60 + billion you could build a tidal system for less Qoute ‘Europe’s biggest’ battery in East Yorkshire opens The project has the capacity to store enough energy to power around 300,000 homes in Yorkshire for two hours It's not that big it only cost 75 million but it doesn't need staffing it's turbines aren't idling ready to fire up and can take in solar as well as wind I'd also add modern turbines spin in winds as low as 8mph and when you look at reports of a no wind day the stats are still putting in around 1/2 total capacity
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  180. Make it April the 1st
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  181. working class voters abandoned Labour in the 2010's and started voting UKIP accelerated even quicker by appointing Corbyn catch up
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  182. According to an LSE study the economy would have grown by 15% from 2010 to 2019 without Austerity In Real terms the economy completely stagnated in that period and debt rose from 62% to 92% so taking growth into account debt to GDP would have been around 60% as we entered the pandemic Disposable income is now down to 2006 levels and we wouldn't have had Brexit which has reduced the value of our currency by 30% and depressed GDP by 6%
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  183. Your statement is completely untrue about the last Parliament Johnson received £36,000 for wallpaper in one donation alone, his list of freebies is a mile long. You scratch under the surface and your talking here around £20,000 per annum which is chicken feed to most Tories who were being given second jobs to lobby for various things.
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  184.  @hoxtondave9619  Brexit put economic sanctions on every Importer/Exporter from the EU which is vastly increasing the cost of food and other goods. The bill to do this is estimated o be 10 billion per annum. Not only that UK farmers are producing less because they can't get seasonal workers by the time everything shakes out economists are predicting food will 50% higher in the UK than in the EU.
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  185. here plan won't work We have Supply Side Corporate Inflation on inelastic essential commodities, creating more demand balloons the cost which in turn increases Inflation if you wanted to grow the economy you'd address the shortage of energy by both increasing supply (onshore wind is the quickest) and reduce demand ( insulation) address the food shortages by growing more food in the UK because of leaving the EU our gdp has fallen by 4.5% we have 1.3 million vacancies exporters have a red tape and tarrif bill of 10 billion per annum and net exports are plummeting with sales to the EU falling by 30% gilt yields have risen sharply by 2% adding 15 billion to the uk debt bill basically while the Tories are in power as a country where fked.
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  186. Labour's stance on Gaza is a ceasefire and a 2 state solution and there a Unionist party Just take a look at brex1t then amplify it by 10 if you want to know what economic independence would look like
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  187. What's he going to say about Sue Gray's proposal to ban alcohol at Westminster or when Westminster is run more as a 9-5 instead of starting at lunchtime and finishing in the middle of the night? How is he going to complain when Kier recalls parliament early to get to work on the peoples priorities
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  188. If you want less immigration change the economic model institute an equitable progressive tax system and properly fund Social and Physical infrastructure to create a demand side economy You can't have a low tax Tory economy without the low wage supply side immigrant labour source that fuels it
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  189. @Pegaroo_  the council near me allowed a large development in one of the surrounding villages. 70% were bought up by people renting them out as Air B n B One of the main issues is during Cov the 3/4 of a trillion that was pumped into the economy to keep it ticking over all trickled up. Me personally we didn't go on around 5 foreign holidays, no restaurant's for nearly 2 years, were comfortably off and I'm over 60 probably didn't spend around 50k There's a lot of money sloshing around in the older generation.
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  190. ​ @jjefferyworboys8138 do you understand what socialism even is? Without a socially funded army we would be defenceless
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  191.  @cal7168  No they didn't the people rioting were the usual collection of scumbags that collect round large gatherings trying to take advantage and cause chaos. Among the arrested were white nationalist trying to inflame the situation, Anarchists who want to destroy the system Criminal gangs trying to loot and steal. Lets also be clear that there is a direct correlation between inner city poverty and rioting that even the Victorians recognised and did something about but successive US administrations have not. The corporate Tax giveaway in 2017 reduced food stamps and money to city budgets to part pay for it this has a knock on effect to urban decay. Again you pour gasoline on a fire you started and what will happen?
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  192.  @Iybraesil  I have had multiple conversations with people who have somewhat way out views. The approach I take is to try and inform and get them to engage in Critical Thinking. Far right ideologies rely on ignorance and propaganda they can easily infect those who do not Question the validity of the arguments being made.
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  193. Totally agree there's a paper on it somewhere fleshing out a complete policy
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  194. If Truss leaves corporation tax low then rates will have to skyrocket to compensate the current inflation isn't like the Thatcher era which was Demand side inflation which fuelled ever spiralling wage inflation. Its Supply side inflation with corporations getting spiralling profits we already have one of the lowest rates of corporation tax and higher rate band tax rates in the G7.
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  195. If you dig into what Starmer has been saying he's obviously read and been influenced by this book Mariana Mazzucato, Mission Economy: A Moonshot Guide to Changing Capitalism Hopefully he's read her latest book as well The Big Con: How the Consulting Industry Weakens our Businesses, Infantilizes our Governments and Warps our Economies
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  196. ​@johnhumphreys4265 the plan was to gut regulations for sewage cleanup, shifting the cost to the state or basically do nothing and get more pollution in the rivers from run off or have to pay millions in mitigation costs
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  197. It's bullet points for activists when there door knocking and canvassing The manifesto will have detail, given the shalacking Tories have gotten since the last election there's not many tory activists left
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  198. The Conservatives are losing their grip on power and will do anything to hang onto it even produce performative legislation which will never be enacted but is designed to fuel grievance politics even if it means people getting killed by amping up the rhetoric. Othering minorities in Germany lead 1st to labour camps then to concentration camps then to death camps what is the rwanda policy anything other than othering refugees and putting them in a labour/concentration camp
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  199. The numbers there presenting don't take into account tactical so why does James think that after 14 years of gross incompetence that the penny has finally dropped with the public. Boris was broadly popular with conservative voters reminding them Sunak is a back stabbing weasel how's that going to improve his poll ratings?
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  200. Guess we'll have to call him Blojo from now on Wonder if it's on security cam
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  201. I don't think he's anti immigration but there are some rather bad stats 2010 - 2019 Real wage went down by -3% Austerity put large cuts to services At the same time we had 7% in population growth that's despite having a low birth rate of 1.6 and emigration of 40,000 pa needing +400,000 to stand still. To Joe Blogs he's seen himself get poorer at the same time as services where squeezed and a huge increase in foreign labour with zero economic benefit with a toxic right wing media salting the earth. In fact we've had a decade of stagnation you'd have thought with that much growth in the employment base our economy should have been flying so why wasn't it? I'm all for FOM but the numbers needed to swing elections are narrow and Joe Blogs is probably uneducated older and male. I will as usual vote tactically for the least worst option with my only hope of unseating the Tory in my constituency is voting Lib-Dem Anyway I really like Labour's Energy and Green policy just what the North needs as well as an elected HOL and an Agri agreement to sole the NI issue I'm glad he fetched it up made me go look at the data and try work out how the Tories had knackered the economy so completely.
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  202. Brexit is a force multiplier not the cause think of it like this (Austerity + Thatcherism) × Brexit = Stagnation
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  203. According to an LSE study the economy would have grown by 15% from 2010 to 2019 without Austerity In Real terms the economy completely stagnated in that period and debt rose from 62% to 92% so taking growth into account debt to GDP would have been around 60% as we entered the pandemic Disposable income is now down to 2006 levels
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  204. the Energy Sector is making around 170 billion in EXCESS profits over the next 2 years the Tories are refusing to fully implement a windfall tax The price of energy on the Tories manufactured market is geared to the price of GAS its sheer madness
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  205.  @Cat10980  ? You can't stimulate the economy by pumping money in at the top there is a Supply Side Shortage of essential commodities (Food and Energy). You need to solve the energy and food shortages first by I dunno increasing renewables ASAP And Sorting out domestic farm production increasing home grown supply.
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  206. don't you get tired of pedalling that trash?
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  207. Pushing the date forward means there preparing to cut infrastructure spending on charging The reason the date matters is 80% of people buy second hand and it puts the 2nd hand market tying the less well off to fossil vehicles The other big change was ditching housing insulation targets for Landlords this loads all the cost of a draughty rental on tenants, the standard was p1ss poor anyway it was only to C+ New houses and extensions need to be built to A+ Insulation Standard have a large heat store (Hot water tank) Underfloor heating installed + preferably Thermal solar to be heat pump ready or compatible with a heat pump system We are still building new houses that are NOT heat pump compatible Heat pumps in general are NOT suitable for older buildings see above for corrective work to make them so if you HAVE to go electric focus on insulation as high as you can with focus on the floor (20%) + Windows then look into Infra Red Radiators
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  208. Russia changed its industrial base decades ago switching to a Petro economy It doesn't have the soviet era capacity anymore
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  209. You need money to do stuff, over the last 14 years the Tories have cut services and racked up borrowing from 62% gdp to 100% gdp for a total spend of 1.6 trillion GDP per capita has fallen 3 times in the last 14 years this last bout is 7 quarters straight so no one is doing anything without fixing our economy first
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  210. Based on demographics from exit polls 4 million leave voters are no longer with us so your talking nonsense If you count at the other end there being replaced with young rejoiners the vote would be 55% in favour and that doesn't count switchers which you've admitted would be substantial.
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  211. UKIP Reform policies are directly responsible for the explosion in legal migration you'd have thought being conned once was enough?
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  212. He wasn't sacked for being on the picket and line
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  213. At least you got a rise in the bottom tax rate threshold, since 2016 that threshold has been eaten away by Tory chancellors and should be 1570 Also in 2010 the IMF and the EU were pedalling Austerity only the US didn't try it though everyone abandoned it by 2012. You kind of need context anyway since then the Lib-Dems have drifted back left and abandoned NeoLiberal economics.
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  214.  @richardgallagher4880  leaving is costing us around 100 billion a year that's just the up front figure Our car industry is collapsing there won't be one come full electrification The central issue is that in Europe they have an on demand supply chain we don't anymore so industry just can't compete and no one will set up export factories in the UK anymore unless the government pays for it
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  215. He could have put a meaningful windfall tax on the 140 billion in excess energy profits which is a major contributor to our current inflation
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  216. @markwelch3564  since when do estate agents or solicitors give tax advice for one its illegal ?
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  217. I'm a retired boomer bought my house cost 3.5 times my salary Interest rates were at 8% at the time though. I also got free higher education, tax free savings and low tax paid for by Maggy with oil money and asset stripping. Granted I had a decent job but there is little excuse from my generation about paying more tax and given how ISA'S are tax free i don't pay much of that either
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  218. the vote share for Centre Left parties has stayed fairly constant for months at 58%
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  219. He reminds of a below average middle manager i used to work with forever making the wrong calls because he was always trying to be non confrontational with everyone
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  220.  @chatham43  Off the hook for what exactly? You don't have to live at the address to not pay CGT Electoral roll address isn't the same as primary address for HMRC purposes The daily mail is just throwing mud at the wall to see if it can confuse you enough to think there was something wrong
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  221.  @MCDONALD6969  We're comfortably off but wife's bonuses disappeared because of Brexit when the company she works for business dropped but my son after 4 years at work is on 30p above minimum he'll never be able to move out or afford to have a family like many of his generation that the Conservatives have sold down the river.
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  222. Starmer has had to tack to the centre and over correct because you elected a fantasy populist and wasted a decade The Tories are about to do exactly the same but to the right
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  223. He's an Independent now
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  224. ​ @alanwatterson2850 suppressed the vote though. Also date was chosen to corral the student vote in University towns
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  225. Why would they do better? If Labour picks a hard left candidate again they'll not win and it squeezes the centre vote who are put off a Lib-Dem Lab pact. If there's an election there will be some policies coming out of Labour
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  226.  @JohnDoe-hm2zz  Whats net zero got to do with it, decoupling your economy from fossil fuel removes the inflation ravages of world commodity prices. Sweden have 4 % inflation and 65% renwable we have 7% inflation and 35% renewable coincidence I think not
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  227.  @johnrussell3961  I was making the point that the best way of tackling the inflation isn't just by putting up interest rates and that lowering corporation tax makes it worse.
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  228. It is because now over half are dependants before with FOM there was an ebb and flow most years it was around 200,000 and you can reduce that with economic policy and regulations ex ban zero hour low wage jobs which fuelled migration into the gig economy, increase minimum wage etc
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  229. Why be a Tory apologist?
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  230. what's the point on a virtue signalling when you have no power, all UK parties support the 2 state solution
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  231. I think even he has given up on the Tories
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  232.  @CB1000FP1  don't be so closed minded things change rapidly in the Tech age quote 29 Aug 2023 — Between 2010 and 2022, solar and wind power became cost-competitive with fossil fuels even without financial support. Quote enabling a more flexible energy system with storage would save the UK up to £16.7 billion a year by 2050 in electricity system costs
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  233. IMF called for a wealth tax to pay for Covid months ago The complete lack of coverage it got was akin to tumbleweed
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  234. And they would loose support from the centre which greatly reduces there appeal in 100's of seats
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  235. agree a policy with the EU on refugee sharing commit to between 30/40,000 open an application centre in Calais prioritizing Afghan and other war torn areas we've fked up in Agree safe country repatriation deals with the likes of Albania Introduce ID cards which police units can check to get a handle on the dark economy This is what's being floated around, the lack of ID card is what's allowing say Albanians people traffickers to sell people into the dark economy there's not enough checks and security in the EU has been massively escalated in the EU
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  236. PAYE is fine you need to look at a property tax
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  237. @lestrem11  ? There with volunteers campaigning I campaign for the Lib dems if we're at Central its casual there's no restrictions as such your really off on one here you need to take your blue scarf off
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  238. Here are the 5 pledges he should have gone for 100% on all fronts Increase UK Debts (currently 100% Ratio of debt to gdp and in 2010 it was 62%) Reduce living standards (Currently were below 2006 levels) Give rich people more tax breaks by taking it from the less well off (Millionaire pensioner tax break paid for with Fiscal Drag) Shrink the Economy (Thatcherism + Austerity x Brexit = economic contraction)
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  239. GDP per capita has been shrinking for the last 7 quarters, were in a full blown economic reccesion the headline number is propped up by migration. The longer he leaves it the worse it will get mostly because its a reccesion of thier own making
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  240. Your energy bills will reduce in real terms the more renewables we have on the grid simply because wind and the sun aren't affected by inflation, extraction processing and transport costs + The cost of the infrastructure is still falling in real terms + Energy providers are embracing new tech to enable consumers to time shift demand onto cheaper off peak tariffs
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  241. It's been ongoing since 2016 and meeting the standards isn't hard
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  242.  @R3tr0v1ru5  Since when ? The biggest periods of growth in the UK where Atlee post war and Blair, 3rd was Thatcher but she had 3.5% GDP in oil revenues and asset stripped the country.
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  243. here plan won't work We have Supply Side Corporate Inflation on inelastic essential commodities, creating more demand balloons the cost which in turn increases Inflation if you wanted to grow the economy you'd address the shortage of energy by both increasing supply (onshore wind is the quickest) and reduce demand ( insulation) address the food shortages by growing more food in the UK because of leaving the EU our gdp has fallen by 4.5% we have 1.3 million vacancies exporters have a red tape and tarrif bill of 10 billion per annum and net exports are plummeting with sales to the EU falling by 30% gilt yields have risen sharply by 2% adding 15 billion to the uk debt bill basically while the Tories are in power as a country where fked
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  244. Population in general don't have a view on Israel Palastine
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  245. Each year the US disaster relief budget goes up way more than inflation
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  246. A moderate Tory?
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  247. He's definitely in the pocket of the fossil lobby and the billionaire class through Policy Exchange and the IEA
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  248. Lower than a snakes belly ! love it
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  249. Austerity actually shrank and is shrinking the economy by more than was saved by the cuts Each tax and spend action by a government has an economic multiplier, the OBR calculated it for Austerity at 0.5 (for every £ saved you only really save +50p due to economic contraction) Real world data showed back in 2013 that the actual multiplier for Austerity was 1.6 (for every £ saved it cost -60p so you were actually contracting the economy more than was being saved in cuts by making the cuts)
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  250. we've just been through the biggest fall in living standards in UK history at -4.2% down and our trade is down and we have a spiralling debt crisis UK trade volumes suffer record five-year decline Financial Times 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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  251.  @carlisroy6666  what's honest about gesture politics we've had it for 5 years with the Tories there's 4.3 million children in poverty this will only help 250k at a cost of 3 billion
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  252. Tax property + double on 2nd homes
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  253. That was during his Kermit the muppet phase before he went to Peppa Pig world and I'm not making this stuff up
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  254. Why does it help the UK economy to be run by Tories?
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  255. SIPPS are tax free and your allowed free to spouse primary residence with 325 limit +175 making £500,000 if its to a sibling If the house was worth 1 mill and the 2 pensions where 400,000 each if both parents died you'd have a tax free sum of 1.8 million You can get round it all sorts of ways as well using trust funds
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  256. He'll have gone to boarding school, nuff said
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  257.  @Gph0367  there a recent podcast at politics joe
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  258.  @SmithyD86  The Root cause of our economic problems are Austerity and Trickle down economic policy. Did you know we spent 20 billion on housing support last year? The reason why is councils being asset stripped by right to buy and then not replacing social housing stock also the Cons have pumped over 100 billion into these types of schemes over thier 2 main stints in office. House prices since 2010 have risen by 66% Average wages have fallen by -7%.
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  259. well said
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  260. In what way the FT 250 is already up 1.18% business is happy the Tory psychodrama is over
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  261. ​ @OKnotOK09 the government then has to service the debts Total cost for nationalisation is around 80 billion and to fix the system you need +40 billion Your also reliant on funding from the City where currently 100% leveraged in debt to gdp thanks to the Tories
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  262. Rage how dare they try and clean up the air we breath its outrageous and only having since 2016 to sort out a compliant vehicle how dare they charge my old pollution belching diesel van? I just checked euro 6 diesel was mandatory back in 2015 this is a nothing burger
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  263.  @alidawson6118  no there not there left of centre Thhe current lot in power aren't even Conservative there that far right
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  264. ​@kevinsimpson-dw6vuAs of 2026 all UK EV have to be 60% made in Britain to qualify for tariff free export to the EU We don't make batteries so all UK car manufacturing will close
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  265. here plan won't work We have Supply Side Corporate Inflation on inelastic essential commodities, creating more demand balloons the cost which in turn increases Inflation if you wanted to grow the economy you'd address the shortage of energy by both increasing supply (onshore wind is the quickest) and reduce demand ( insulation) address the food shortages by growing more food in the UK because of leaving the EU our gdp has fallen by 4.5% we have 1.3 million vacancies exporters have a red tape and tarrif bill of 10 billion per annum and net exports are plummeting with sales to the EU falling by 30% gilt yields have risen sharply by 2% adding 15 billion to the uk debt bill basically while the Tories are in power as a country where fked
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  266. Why did the SNP waste parliamentary time on a pointless vote? We have a cost of everything crisis
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  267.  @amirmxd  If you look at their voter demographic there to widely spread across England The 2 seats won by Tice and Farage are a couple of he most deprived areas in the UK, Reform feed on misery
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  268. Trade barriers create additional costs its not rocket science Your also getting increased legal migration because dependents also predictable Our SME economy which is mostly outside London has been absolutely hammered they employ 60% of the British workforce, prices will continue to climb for the foreseeable future
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  269. He was kicked for not towing the party line just like he didn't under Blair Brown but Starmer had the bottle to suspend him
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  270. they've set in motion a housing crash and a really deep recession
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  271. According to a new report from the Pensions Regulator, the value of assets held by pension funds fell by around £425bn over 2022, equivalent to a 24 per cent fall in the overall value of scheme assets. “This fall in assets is primarily due to the loss in value of gilts, corporate bonds and property,” the report said. Asset values hit their lowest point in September, pointing to the impact of Truss’s fiscal event. thats 425 billion reasons not to vote Tory
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  272. what difference does political virtue signalling do? They've been at war in some shape or form since before I started voting 50 years ago
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  273.  @philmartin5689  he was sacked for making up policy on the hoof in a Sky news interview
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  274. Then we joined the EU and our Economy improved
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  275. They can't escape economics Every year fossil gets more expensive as it's subject to higher and higher extraction costs, processing costs and transportation costs The capital cost of renewables is still falling in real terms and the input energy as in wind and the sun are free and not subject to inflation Just had a solar and battery system installed it will pay back capital costs in 6 years, reason the battery and it's cost has plummeted in the last few years
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  276. This budget alone 2 billion on a millionaire pensions tax break 8 Billion on a tax break for bankers 6 billion on a tax break for fossil fuel companies 2022 40 billion (cost of Truss Budget) 11 Billion (cost of not insuring against rate rises - Sunak) 2020/21 60 billion in Fraud (report just out) Sunak 37 billion Track and trace privatised and less than useless Covid VIP lane? collapse of Greensill Capital 5 billion (Cameron) Quote from Bloomberg Brexit is costing the UK economy £100 billion a year ($124 billion), with the effects spanning everything from business investment to the ability of companies to hire workers. WAKE UP
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  277. Going renewable cost 6% gdp staying as we are cost 13% gdp due to gas prices. Energy costs 30 billion in 2021 in.2023 it will cost 170 billion GAS
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  278. @markwelch3564  again cgt doesn't apply if its your primary residence, you do not have to live there
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  279. currently electric from wind turbines is at least x10 cheaper than that generated with gas and it's not solely down to current price rises it became the cheapest source on the grid in 2019 and where are they going to get the 10 million gallons of water to turn into toxic goop from?
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  280.  @Trendycosmetics-os6gh  Our taxes have gone up under Sunak it was estimated by £13,000 per household as a pensioner I'm extremely p1ssed off with his attack on NI which there going to have to pay for by raising the pension age to 68 catching my wife in the net which is a £24,000 hit
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  281.  @chrisj9700  If you live in a 1 million £ house you can afford to pay tax on it. We could set up a student loan type system they can borrow from if there cash poor and the money is taken from the estate. This also encourages pensioners who's kids have left home to downsize freeing up multi-bedroom properties onto the market.
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  282.  @jimmyguitar9873  The money that doesn't go offshore gets locked up in assets such as houses in Mayfair, stocks Art etc
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  283.  @carolewynn9407  how dare they selfishly live in a 5 bedroom property and freeload off the system that's enabled them to accumulate so much property wealth. No one's forcing them out if there prepared to pay the tax. Successive governments have pumped 100's of billions into enabling people to buy property its time to pay the ferryman.
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  284. ​ @markabrahams2191  Octopus are getting round it by offering peak rates for people with batteries to export between 4-7pm as well as a standard Feed in Tariff + cheap overnight but you need to have invested. I have solar + Battery + solar diverter for hot water, capital payback is 6 years. Why can't the grid do that?
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  285.  @timthetiny7538  It gets more expensive to extract with each passing year making it uneconomical. We passed that point in 2020 it's just our grid and infrastructure needs to transition.
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  286. He's appealing to the general public who don't care what he promised Corbyn's Faithfull The majority are glad to see the back of Jeremy
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  287. Its an overreaction to the wasted and lost years of Corbyn and Jamie Driscoll wasn't ousted he didn't make a long list for a different post and has been going around crying about it ever since
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  288. You don't fuel a conspiracy theory, your trying to turn incompetence into some shadowy plot
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  289.  @BeeBeeCJr  no there not One is trying to pivot the economy towards renewables and reshore jobs The other pumped 3 trillion into debt for a tax cut for the rich
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  290. If he knew how to turn things round he'd stop asking the Ghost of Thatcher and Brexit Jesus for advice
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  291. What's a mere 6% GDP and hundreds of thousands of small businesses trade ruined. At the rate there going they'll even loose the pensioner vote the NI cut doesn't affect pensions fiscal drag does though many will be paying +£400 for the 1st time with energy costs trebling and food prices through the roof.
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  292.  @CLARKE176  They've made such a pigs ear over it we'll be back in the common market in no time
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  293. The FT 250 is up significantly this morning, business people don't share your pessimism, every year of the Tories 14 has just seen the level of chaos building to what has been a complete collapse of anything bordering sanity.
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  294.  @oneoflokis  true I was surprised at the shift to younger educated urban voters but on reflection its down to the raising the educational threshold and getting more people university educated. And the destruction of workers networks through WMC and loss of Unions.
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  295. That will turn of the Blue wall to the Lib-Dems and pump Reform by a couple of points
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  296. You have the best economic recovery in the G7 + 400,000 manufacturing jobs reshored last year Blue collar and working class wages are shifting upwards
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  297. If you create trade barriers things go up, trade by volume is 7% less than in 2018 the tax shortfall has to be made up from other sources We're increasing legal migration because we left reason dependents given the numbers since leaving the EU you'd need +8 billion for the NHS just to stand still on a per capita basis.
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  298. ​ EvropaAeternvm they lost because they were cr@p Reform aren't Conservative there economics are Libertarian thier other policies are national populism. Chasing Reform alienate moderate Tories as seen by 72 lib dems seats
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  299. People don't understand economics. I've had numerous conversations over the years explaining economic multipliers on government tax and spend explaining how cutting services with Austerity actually shrank the economy producing less tax revenues Ex defunding the justice system by Osborne increased crime, increases in unsolved crime especially theft has negative effects on the population and companies in relation to GDP > than the savings made by Austerity
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  300.  @ignoranceisbliss6259  I'll give you an even worse example defunding nurse and doctor training leads to exponential growth in the need for migrant professional workers They can't cut net migration because a huge chunk of it is driven by Austerity and would take a decade to rectify
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  301. It won't happen as you think. Currently US oil is at around $70 a barrel the break even point is $65 it's pointless extracting more they will sit on the leases + Every year renewable energy gets cheaper in comparison as capital costs fall while Oil and gas are subject to rising costs + inflation
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  302. The lead is baked in, Starmer isn't regarded as a threat to middle England who will vote tactically to destroy the Tories because of their chronic ineptitude
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  303. Why are labour finished they've just started repairing the Tories mess
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  304.  @billybobthornton9668  reduced waiting lists = increased productivity + companies paying out less in long term sick pay which = higher gdp & more tax
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  305. 1 in 5 apparently
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  306. ​ @ozzy8286 we have an ex dpp in charge. This lot will learn the hard way
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  307. net zero will reduce energy bills, the reason there high now is were tied to gas
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  308. the economy would collapse faster than its currently doing
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  309. ​ @JamesSmith-gj2ho you could automate fruit picking , plant the trees in the right way invest in the machinery
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  310. we've had a Right wing - then Centre Then Right wing government for 50 years and you wanted to reverse 50 years of policies in 5 do you not know how silly that sounds and why you lost by a lot in 2019?
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  311. Do you have any idea on how bad her economic views are? Lower corporation tax to boost growth? This is a complete fairy tale corporate profits are up 12.5% and are fueling inflation lowering corporation tax is like throwing gasoline on a fire. Disaster capitalist privatise the profits socialise the loss
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  312. Thatcher stripped around 1.2 trillion in assets from the country a lot now owned by offshore interests If you have an asset such as a house, water company, energy your expecting a return, so the value to the country of ownership is a loss of around 60 billion per year
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  313. Reform pedal supply side economics same as the Tories which needs a supply side labour pool to function Fantasy economics meets Fantasy immigration policy
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  314. There was a government paper in 2023, if you don't do it it will cost more than waiting because we need to upgrade the grid infrastructure anyway and by sticking with gas your ballooning your operating costs. At the end of the day renewable energy is the cheapest on the grid + it's input energy cost is zero Gas is subject to extraction, processing & transport costs times inflation
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  315. Starmer will be the next PM the question is by how much or with supply agreements. Reasons the economy is tanking and will continue to get worse were a long way off the bottom
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  316. ​ @Noel-ji8nm there's no such thing as a red Tory Osborne changed economic course completely in 2010 leading to the shthole economy we have now
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  317. It was politically dumb to put a number on it The number becomes the issue everyone talks about not the policy
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  318. By importing 1.25 million workers we only got a technical recession rather than a full blown depression
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  319. It's the UKIP ification of the Tory Party Backing a channel that is opinion at best propaganda at worst that pushes conspiracy theories and tries to bully and degrade anyone that doesn't agree with it
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  320. I thought we were moving on from a law breaking liar to someone honest She lied through her teeth to frighten pensioners about Turkey joining the EU from the Guardian Readers should recall that the Tory leadership candidate Penny Mordaunt is best known for persistently purveying falsehoods during the 2016 EU referendum campaign. During a TV interview with Andrew Marr, playing on fears of mass immigration, she claimed that Britain would not be able to stop Turkey joining the EU. As a former EU ambassador to Turkey, I can confirm that Turkey was not and is not in line for EU membership. Its membership of the EU customs union does not grant it free movement of people. Britain always had a veto over any aspiring member, and if Mordaunt had previously had any credibility, her infamous dishonesty about Turkey destroyed it. I thought part of the reason for ditching Boris Johnson was his habit of lying.
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  321. We always had the tools to control migration Cameron especially failed to do it. A cullis example was GiG work, totally unregulated with over a million workers pouring in from the EU
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  322. You'd rather have the Tories?
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  323. The economy has got progressively worse since the last election, Truss's mini budget salted the earth with the Gilt markets, Sunak is already overborrowing so there is only 1 option Labour.
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  324. Reform are a protest party with zero structure platformed by billionaire media interests quote The Liberal Democrats have just over 3100 councillors across the UK, currently leading 69 councils across England and Wales.
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  325. fiscal drag with 20% rates frozen till 2028 currently its 12250 it should be 15000
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  326.  @johnrussell3961  The bulk of the inflation is Corporate inflation this has nothing to do with workers salaries its completely different to the Thatcher era inflation which was a revolving door of demand side followed by wages. This is Supply side if Truss cuts corporation tax then the BOE will need to raise rates to 8/9% to even make a dent and that will plunge the country into a recession like its never seen before way worse than 2008 and the banking crisis.
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  327. Like many he doesn't understand the full impact of economic policy on immigration Couple examples Train less doctors we need to import Doctors to import less would take 7 years. Deregulated GIG work during the Cameron Years fuelled low pay zero hour contract migrant workers - Answer regulate the GIG economy ban Zero Hour. I pre one post Brexit Immigration issue  @MoireFly 
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  328. There improving all the time some makers such as Tesla & Nissan have many years in the field there expecting to get 3-400,000 out of the new Tesla's not seen how nissan are doing but I'd expect to see 3rd party replacements as the market mature
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  329. ​ @williammore558 they have 5 missions central to any is planning reform The mission philosophy is based on Mariana Mazzucato and her book Mission Economy Your Mission is based on goals not cost as in the moon Mission which ended up paying back economically x7
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  330. One of multiple quotes pointing out why the economy is shrinking and you can't grow it Hint it doesn't involve tax cuts for the rich Post–Brexit labour shortages risk 'permanent' damage to UK Economy Labour shortages caused by Brexit and accentuated by the COVID pandemic have badly affected businesses across the board From the FT Brexit intensifies labour shortages as companies struggle to hire. Report finds big drop in EU workers with no evidence of rising wages Labour shortages: the ‘most urgent problem’ facing the UK economy right now Britain is currently in the grip of an ‘employment crisis Anyone going on a UK break this month would do well to book pubs and restaurants well in advance, said The Sunday Times – and even if they get a table, they shouldn’t expect a full menu. It is more than a year since the last lockdown, but the hospitality industry is still facing acute labour shortages – and it’s not the only one. So unfettered banking bonuses will cure the labour shortage and increase wages at the bottom? Your answer on your last piece of firewood as you freeze to death this winter.
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  331. If you remove FOM and run supply side trickle down economics aka Thatcherism then you need migrant Labour and if its not coming from the EU then your giving permanent visa's to Indian and Nigerian workers who quite rightly won't come unless they fetch their families. Over half the immigration total is dependants If you want less immigration change the economic model institute an equitable progressive tax system and properly fund Social and Physical infrastructure to create a demand side economy
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  332. It points to high levels of tactical voting
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  333. ​ @Dynasty1818 average wages are -7% lower than in 2010 The only reason Real gdp is below zero by a small fraction is the staggering amount of immigration over the last few years GDP per Capita is falling like a stone
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  334. The proposed legislation is under discussion to ensure it doesn't have unintended consequences I'm retired and do zero hour invigilator work at my local school which isn't fixed or permanent, zero hour should have been properly regulated by Blair he got talked out of it by Mandelson. We then saw the issues in the Cameron era of lack of regulation with the gig economy and huge numbers coming from Eastern Europe on zero hour low wage undermining established businesses and offshoring profits.
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  335.  @johnrussell3961  the Tories have put 1.8 trillion of debt into the economy. If you look at the corporate tax cut by Osborne it was spent on share buy backs ceo pay and dividends
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  336. As someone reasonably comfortably off the Conservatives have never served anyone other than the ultra well off's interests since Cameron took power there just not bothering to hide it anymore. If your centre right leaning they've offered nothing for the past 12 years
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  337. If you remove the right to strike what else do you have left we know the minimum service level legislation will be abused to punch down even harder on workers and this is the government that turned a blind eye to Fire / Rehire (P&O) and is allowing companies to import workers at -20% of current staff wages + allowed the explosion of low paid zero hour unregulated gig work that undermined established UK businesses while offshoring all their profits
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  338. They may have been in the past but the Boris/Cummings purge pre election got rid of nearly all the moderates. What's taken thier place are the lunatic fringe of the far right. Thier populist banter may go down well with a certain crowd but dig under the surface and just the sheer rank aragance and incompetence is staggering.
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  339. except planning reform, rail nationalisation, GBEnergy and lower bills, business confidence to invest now the Tory chaos has gone (FT 250 up 1%)
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  340.  @infosuge  it's +66% since 2010 with negative wage growth of -7% on average wages
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  341. He's got a large property portfolio
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  342. He's socially centre and fiscally Centre Left as far as I can make out
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  343. Every point of lost GDP = 8 billion in lost revenue to the Treasury Brexit is an economic car crash there was zero plan back i 2016 and there's zero plan now As for democracy there busy giving away sovereignty to the CPTPP by agreeing to ISDS and reducing standards by the back door YES IT IS ALL YOUR FAULT CLINGING TO THE ROTTEN CARCASS OF THE BIGGEST BAG OF LIES EVER FOISTED ON THE UK PUBLIC
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  344. First off if it's a business then it looses thousands of volunteers the salaries would need to rise by 30% and everyone would pay 50-100% more in insurance premium A private system helps the wealthy not your average Joe public
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  345. Been following the focus groups on Times Radio, they've gone from a soft labour lead to baked in we need change
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  346. Its already 5.2% smaller than its projected it should have been from 2017 onward and we've devalued the pound by 25% The loss alone is 140 billion in trade and 40 billion in taxes to the exchequer and thats just for last year which includes about 1.5 - 2% of that Brexit depression
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  347. he didn't say he was buds with Rhishi
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  348. He isn't Conservative and brings along the failure of his brex1t baggage + A majority of Conservative activists who do all the work dislike him to the point they would quit
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  349. The cause of our economic problems are his and his parties policies, yet again we're back to Austerity and moneteris you would think after 14 years of it failing that they would twig and change course? Fundemantly he's a cr@p Tory who's economically clueless
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  350.  @johnrussell3961  Both Starmer and Reeve are left of Blair Brown the thing is Starmer is the ultimate pragmatist he will push but not force unlike some he isn't going round telling people they are wrong
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  351. 90% windfall tax on energy companies redistributing the tax to customers which would lower core inflation Oh that was Labour plan
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  352. You can still download the pdf on safely campaigning during Covid But your not interested your just spaffing off guff you've picked up
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  353. @lestrem11  go read the pdf I campaign for the Lib dems its like normal if your working late. Go read the guidance pdf
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  354. We all know it won't he's going to try get as much alignment as possible. There's a lot of stuff you can do to ease the pain ultimately well be back in the single market but it would take decades.
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  355. Anyone know what Sunak's plan is beside building a train that doesn't go to London and doesn't go to Birmingham?
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  356. This has been ongoing since 2016 not much of an excuse not to be compliant
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  357.  @jujutrini8412  They don't want a National Abortion ban and restrictions on contraception Trump is nuts anyway people know that from his 1st term
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  358. ​ @weswheel4834 Reform voters won't vote Tory for the most part Reform aren't Conservative they liked Bojos populism
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  359. No it won't its about the economy And if you grew a brain you'd understand that the reason legal migration is high is because we've left the EU And the Tories have pursued economic policies which relied on immigration which would take years to reverse
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  360.  @JohnnyRingo-c5v  split left right is currently 58-36% in 2019 Left still had >50% and that was with Corbyn Brexit and Boris against them
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  361. from a party that's claiming to be more Tory than the Tories bit rich
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  362. He could have done a huge amount to curb inflation by having a complete energy plan which moved us from gas a breakneck speed as Germany have
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  363. Theres a broader problem with the 28 billion figure. It was always a theoretical figure, Sunak and Co have maxed out borrowing to 130 billion last year and debt to gdp is rising + The tories have baked in 10% cuts to services in the next budget to salt the earth. The quickest way of getting green investment going at warp speed is changes to planning to stop grid upgrade roll out being stalled, the best way to get retro fit insulation is to have a body composed of experts + builders come up with cost effective solutions alligned with tax breaks. No vat on solar + installs etc ​@BCync
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  364. @jasonhughes638  that figure is based on property, a lot of pensioners are asset rich cash poor And 20% live in poverty that figure is rising by the day as people enter retirement and get dragged down by high food and fuel inflation. I'm a pensioner but have never voted Tory I know what there like and it's been estimated by economists that 40% of that property value is down to government subsidies and policies.
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  365. @jasonhughes638  since 2010 house prices have risen by 66% and average wages by -7% The 1st thing labour needs to do is change the planning system and build like it was post war, the value of my property is irrelevant to me its where I have lived since 1985
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  366. He's just cynical and ruthless, decided to cut his losses so there is no chance of an Abbot Gaffe mid campaign, +3 points in the polls today, aside from the Westminster bubble this will have zero affect on the polls. At 70 she could have gone of her own accord and would have been bumped to the HOL, probably still will be if she doesn't stand as an independent
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  367. He isn't an incoming US official DOGE is an autonomous advisory body outside the Federal government If he was a US official he'd have to sell all his businesses
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  368. They were all part of the worst government in history The 1st time you have been worse off after a five year term on record
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  369.  @bigfisher4354  Thatcher / Major tax cuts were paid for with Oil money and asset stripping public services. Osborne never reduced the tax base below 33% and the Tories borrowed over 1 trillion from 2010 to 2019 stagnated the economy and increased the population by 8 million.
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  370. I think there missing a point the labour market is tight and if you work from home you can work anywhere in the country. My mate has just got a job in Southampton he lives and works from home in Leeds southern salaries means he's just had a 1/3 pay rise. He's expected in the office couple times a year for social reasons more than anything to do with work
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  371. Not implementing an energy windfall tax has increased inflation prioritising the private sector
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  372. ​ @BoredomIncarnate1 when Nick is fed up you know the Tories are in for the mother of all gubbing
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  373. They won't increase taxes for the average person in the middle and working class at all. Their tax plans focus on non domes shutting down the 42 billion in uncollected, closing loopholes realigning tax codes, removing subsidies, cutting outsourcing etc.
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  374. ​ @turntheblueiris4626 If you dig into what Starmer has been saying he's obviously read and been influenced by this book on mission driven goals but let's be honest hrer the economy resembles a skip fire and we're not over the worst of it Mariana Mazzucato, Mission Economy: A Moonshot Guide to Changing Capitalism Hopefully he's read her latest book as well The Big Con: How the Consulting Industry Weakens our Businesses, Infantilizes our Governments and Warps our Economies
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  375. He's already admitted that whips use bullying tactics that go beyond the legal limits ohh very suspicious
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  376. You can't have a low tax Tory economy without the low wage supply side immigrant labour source that fuels it If you want to reduce immigration change the economic model to one with a fair progressive tax system and fully fund social and physical infrastructure moving to a demand side economy Sunak and the Tories are too embedded in Thatcherism to even move a scintilla away from that if we don't change governments soon the economic spiral will increase Hunt put in 10% spending cuts into next years budgets to pay for the recent tax cuts which will further shrink the economy. Sunak & Co can certainly make the whole situation a lot worse
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  377. Tice you complete m0r0n net zero will save uk consumers billions Stop lobbying for your backers the fossil industry In the US ercot replaced a gas peak plant with grid scale battery storage it cost 750 million saves 1 billion EVERY YEAR i've refurbished my house brought it up to A+ insulation standard replaced the old tierd heating with underfloor energy usage down -80% My friend has thermal solar 75% of his hot water is FREE
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  378.  @catherinemontgomery7130  The government are giving out Visas like confetti there just not bragging about it. Go look it up I think its funny all those bleating about migrant workers Patel Tub thumping about taking back control and there getting in Filipino workers for the NHS by the boatload
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  379. ​ @pwimbledon labour aren't pro imigration in fact they want to invest in uk workers which will reduce net migration
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  380. I've got one for them F*** The Tories
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  381. Labour's position is moving it towards a May style deal if the EU will let us
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  382.  @kevinhamilton1177  I've lived through a number of them there fine, Blair's even raised average wages by +20% best of any parliament in history
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  383.  @tonyb9735  The security services were ordered not to look
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  384.  @dianecameron137  He's offering overtime to health workers to help clear the backlog and I'm sure many people will be glad of the money given the mortgage crisis mad worse by one Liz Truss
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  385. Its one way of reducing the pension bill Yet They couldn't even do that properly If you put a Clown in charge of Government the Clown doesn't become a Leader the Government becomes a Circus
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  386. I'll go with Labour over far right supply side trickle down economics aka Thatcherism + Austerity any day
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  387.  @boltonpictures9034  I have savings and assets of over 1 million with my wife CGT won't affect us, IHT is frozen but there are ways round it and the limit is 1 million per couple
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  388.  @hughjohns9110  have thier say about what exactly?
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  389. I looked this up the Euro 6 diesel standard was mandatory for new reg in 2015 so 6our looking at 8 year old and above vehicles being penalised it's not a very high bar
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  390. Theres a broader problem with the 28 billion figure. It was always a theoretical figure, Sunak and Co have maxed out borrowing to 130 billion last year and debt to gdp is rising + The tories have baked in 10% cuts to services in the next budget to salt the earth. The quickest way of getting green investment going at warp speed is changes to planning to stop grid upgrade roll out being stalled, the best way to get retro fit insulation is to have a body composed of experts + builders come up with cost effective solutions alligned with tax breaks. No vat on solar + installs etc
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  391.  @Batters56  The economic multiplier on Austerity was calculated in 2012/3 to be 1.6 when Osborne put it forward the OBR estimate was 0.5 One of the starkest figures was from defunding the Justice system (police, social services, courts, prisons etc.) the current estimate is the increase in unsolved crime not dealing with crime etc. has a cost from 2010 to present of 500 billion.
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  392.  @DaveyNaples  They'll build more council houses, Andy Burnham has already outlined how it would be possible
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  393. He would have been just as useless as Truss. Stop ulegising the guy
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  394.  @ianbarnes9947  reason for the gaffe that got her into trouble in the 1st place is she looks to be having memory problems
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  395. The nickname is Blunder Truss
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  396. Patel, Johnson, Raab, Javid, Sunak, etc all children of imigrants The Queen Prince Charles etc children of immigrants What's the difference now?
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  397.  @PJH13  The tax burden has risen in real terms by 33% over the 14 year term and it's not just 2020 If you look at income tax alone the thresholds have been eroded till they were frozen in 2021
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  398. No they wouldn't there's not a single viable policy on their manifesto, they'd get ripped to shreds in an open debate
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  399. alcohol at work a drinking culture I believe was Ms Gray's word A wine Fridge a suitcase to go down the Off Licence with a Karaoke machine the term Wine Friday being the order of the day if she tightens that blue scarf any more round her neck she'll throttle herself
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  400. You've got a hard brexit which has tanked the economy increased migration and raised taxes
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  401. SNP put in a motion to try stir up trouble in the Labour Party The CON's put in an amendment to Block Labour submitting one, they've do it all the time so no meaningful amendment goes forward and the whole debate becomes pointless on an opposition day motion. Well done speaker is what I say less of this political shenanigans
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  402.  @darrens2601  It improves GDP per capita over time which translates to better wages and increased tax take. Investment has been sorely hampered by Tory Chaos which in turn has seen a 2 year recession in GDP per capita
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  403. You can take money out of the economy by raising taxes we have one of the lowest rates of Corporation and top band tax rates in the G7 all the pain has so far been piled on the bottom.
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  404. Boat people are a distraction no idea why you and others bang on about it so much its 60,000 given asylum per year at the moment from a population of 70 million
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  405. Reeve has already dispelled that myth with her Mais speech
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  406. The Cons Elected an Economic Lettuce that was in Thrall to a Libertarian Think Tank the IEA
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  407. Tory lies about trade to get elected Tory goes on TV to blame his lies on someone else Tory lies about the economy Tory goes on TV to blame his lies on someone else Its a 12 year running script yet the public fall for it time and again
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  408. House prices have risen by 66% since 2010 and average wages have fallen by -7% GDP Per Capita has fallen for 7 quarters straight the headline gdp is boosted by 1.25 million visas The Cons have broken the system
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  409.  @Gph0367  I like Gary but he does give you the Downers Look up Economists Torsten Bell and Mariana Mazzucato, there's podcasts at Politics Joe as well as a recent one with Gary
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  410.  @SmithyD86   There's a paper over at the Resolution Foundation called Ending Stagnation give it a read
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  411.  @captainfrandad1138  Doesn't even have to increase taxes on unearned wealth the Tories have spent 14 years creating a labyrinth of trickle down tax breaks for the wealthy
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  412. The 13 does't take into account tactical voting or Elphicke reminding the Tory faithful that Sunak is a back stabbing weasel
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  413. ​ @TheOutsider840  there was a huge imbalance because the Tories run an economic principal called Supply Side to even stand still economically it needs loads of cheap labour. Thatcherism needs a constant stream if you turn it off the economy melts down as is currently the case were short of over 1.3 million workers
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  414. The FT 250 is already up 1.18% in anticipation of a more small business friendly environment
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  415.  @The_Phoenix_Saga  the one that looks at a privileged thick as mince Etonian who's had everything handed to him on a plate over the years and has subsequently lied his way to the pinnacle of politics and thinks how did we get here The Tories are always bangging on about the working class making something of themselves when someone does it's bring out all the old tropes time
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  416. @keithparker1346  take the last estimated purchase and debt figures and adjust for inflation its not the purchase price which is the issue its the debt of the 80 billion 62 is debt
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  417. The working class voted UKIP BREXIT BORIS And that trend accelerated during Corbyn's tenure most of those votes are permanently lost, Labour are doing what the Democrats did over in the states appealing to the middle class and younger educated vote + women in general
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  418. He's following the US lead as far as I'm aware Blikin is pushing every lever he can to stop it escalating into a wider conflict and free the hostages quite a few Arab states would like Hamas destroyed Geopolitics is a messy business
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  419. In 2019 the economy didn't resemble a skip fire And You where always going to get evolution not revolution because the Corbyn agenda was nostalgic socialist fantasy land But from what Starmer has been saying he at least appears to understand the gravity of the situation if you think its bad now by spring BOE rate will be 6.5%
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  420. After the initial stages its an economic war as in who runs out of resources The Russians are poorly equipped winter will be bad for them, how bad we shall see
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  421. The media in the UK is heavily right wing biased what this is designed to do is not let them whitewash 12 years of failure and present Sunak as something new oh look were not the ones that crashed the economy and ran the Justice system into the ground with Austerity I'm not a fan of the approach but it is generating a lot of Airtime and Labour have been responding by highlighting the true cost of Austerity
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  422. What's your point? We need growth and efficiency gains unions don't invest businesses do you can create a level playing field for both not do what the Tories do play everyone off against each other
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  423.  @keithparker1346  Cut the trickle down Cr@p Last budget alone 8 billion to bankers 6 billion to fossil 2 billion millionaire pensioners Match private and public funding on infrastructure projects such as GBEnergy, If you processed All the Asylum claims you'd deport 20,000 a year and have 60,000 extra working in the economy generating taxation and reducing spend by 2 Billon If you raised the minimum wage + 20% tax threshold you'd reduce in work benifit if you empower housing associations to build social housing you'll drive down rents boosting money circulation in the wider economy etc.
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  424. Over 14 years they have borrowed 1.3 trillion and Real GDP has risen by a mere 100 billion to achieve that paltry rise they increased the population by 8 million making gdp per capita sink from 50k to 45k Everything is worse than 14 years ago
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  425. this is the culmination and embodiment of Brexit Truss is the champion of the ERG and the Brexit Ultra's, Kwerteng is the vehicle of the ultra right think tanks wanting to move to this utopian free market City vision of Singapore on Thames. Both visions are economically unworkable and batshit crazy what Johnson did was play the English Nationalist off against them his mistake was hollowing out his party of one nation Tories and absorbing the dregs of UKIP. The Tories have a major problem the longer blunder Truss and Kami Kwasi are in power the more damage they will do to the UK and possibly world economy
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  426. Our economy was 90% of Germany's in 2016 its now 70% pull the other one GDP per capita was 50,000 in 2010 its now 45,000 we've been going backwards for 14 years @lestrem11 
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  427. No they didn't we had large numbers from India and Pakistan during Thatcher
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  428. The numbers are irrelevant its the % debt to GDP and GDP per capita Ratio Debt to GDP was 62% in 2010 its gone up year on year for 14 years its now 100% @charlievarley 
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  429. Its 100.6% and were not in "Death Debt Spiral" that theory has been widely debunked. If Sunak actually wanted to deal with the inflation which would reduce debt repayment he would tackle the energy crisis and the Cost of Brexit Crisis @madam9736 
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  430. GDP & GDP per CAPITA are globally represented in Dollars same as Oil @Demun1649 
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  431. I think so the missions are based on Mariana Mazzucato's work Mission Economy, as far as I'm aware she will be an adviser. The mission approach is cross departmental I'm assuming Sue Gray was brought in to formulate how it would work
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  432. The question is why do you pedal such an obvious lie? Labour policy will reduce migration by investment in the domestic workforce
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  433. Infrared heating is a method for heating materials that uses electromagnetic waves to transfer energy from the infrared source to the product without heating the air in between. The emitted infrared energy is between 0.7 microns (µ) and 6 µ. At peak efficiency, wavelengths are selected for the product to be heated to minimize energy usage. They Heat Objects not the air, conventional Radiators work on Convection, Underfloor is radiant. Twinned with A+ insulation they are probably your best bet for older properties @rogerphelps9939 
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  434. She is only pushing trickle down supply side which is seen as the onlly way to grow economically by the Libertarian think tanks (funded by billionaires and multinationals) Quote  a 2015 assessment, the International Monetary Fund rubbished trickle down and said governments should instead focus on policies that would directly help those on low and middle incomes. “We find that increasing the income share of the poor and the middle class actually increases growth while a rising income share of the Top 20% results in lower growth
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  435. The reason the Tories are so bad is the candidates they stood at the last election A lot were ex UKIP everyone had to worship Brexit Jesus but the UKIP bunch are populists wanting spending and the free market bunch want no spending Anyone just looking at it from an economic point of view could have told you it would be a complete train wreck, so far since 2016 its lot the economy around 1 trillion, long term investment ie 3-5 year plans all started getting stalled post 2016, the £ dropped by 30% and the latest forecast is an overall 6% hit to GDP
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  436. Starmer has control of selection a massive majority will see change not factionalism unless the Starmer clones go feral  @olaa5534 
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  437. Checked the polls the Tories have slipped 4 points since the election to 21% There voter base is aging out at around 20% their seat total collapses to under 50
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  438. Id focus on the economic benefits of getting cheap labour from the 3rd world Then I'd point out labour will remove things like the millionaire pensioner tax break Id also double down on the Rwanda show pony while ponting to the benifits of tying our economy to wold traded commodity prices with fossil which can be manipulated by cartels especially at times of political instability. Giz a job Rhishi?
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  439. Yea but tell that to the Taxpayers Alliance or the Institute for Economic Affairs the think tanks that are guiding these two puppets sorry is that muppets maybe I was right 1st time
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  440. Starmer's is his own man just ask the left of the party which he's culled ruthlessly.
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  441. Top priorities for the electorate are Cost of living NHS Energy crisis Just why does everything seem to be falling to pieces under the tories while taxes are going up? Sewage in rivers RAAC in hospital and school food inflation rent inflation etc No time for luxary voting
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  442. ​ @mobsiesixsixsix9785 media don't want Labour they'd boost BNP if they were allowed Latest attack Labour will spend 110 billion on green policies! Oh wait it's over 10 years and is virtually the same spend the Tories have budgeted
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  443.  @paulembleton1733  if you believe you can drive a lorry to the Asia Pacific just as easily as to France you'll believe any old pice of cr@p
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  444.  @Matt-ou7tu  Who says there going to run Austerity I could get another 100 billion to spend by ripping out all the Trickle down Cr*p
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  445.  @TheOutsider840  The demographic of the the leave voters was 70% of over 65's voted leave in the U20 category were 90% remain. So there has been no majority among the voting population in the UK for some time. Johnson's deal was always a political one it was never about what was best for the country. Also the Brexit Ultra's wanted Singapore on Thames which includes large numbers of migrant labour which is at odds with what the UKIPers were promised so you now have the worst of all worlds high legal migration and a shrinking economy Enjoy
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  446.  @TheOutsider840  We would never join the Euro so that poll is pointless. Reason - The City. The economic and cultural damage is done by leaving the single market.
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  447. Try living in the south east, I live up north but my entire career my company had me shuttling down there every so often beer is like double housing is through the roof
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  448. Whoever came to power was either going to raise some tax or make draconian cuts to services
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  449. The reason the threshold happened in the 1st place was a Lib Dem condition of coalition as soon as they had total power it started sliding
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  450.  @iangascoigne8231  In 2012 Osborne was told Austerity was shrinking the economy and the economic paper it was based on was debunked at that time Clegg needed to dissolve the coalition for a mandate for more pain. Even the IMF a bastion of neoliberalism was making the case for more investment
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  451.  @iangascoigne8231  no they did wrong the electorate punished them for it now they've changed tack
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  452. so you'll vote Tory instead over something we have zero effect on?
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  453.  @pallascat1743  at least we have something in common. I'm 67 and never had the privilege of voting for who I want just tactically.
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  454. ​ @nickbrian5141 labour manifesto didn't contain any of that As for reform they'd do the same as the Tories pretend there's an easy solution and not process claims so we end up with thousands in hotels or in camps or on barges
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  455. Blair +25% rise in average wages + well funded services Since 2010 Debt to gdp was 62% now 100% in 13 years the Tories paid off nothing and NEVER balanced the books
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  456. Gosh why didn't I think of that the 5% of Russian gas @ 140 billion Jeez you people are mugs @tims9434 
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  457. Their voter base is primarily uneducated men, that means very spread out with no national appeal.
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  458.  @hammertic  The level of freebies is around £20,000 a year on the Labour side not enough to buy anyone off on the other hand Farage is getting over 1 million a year from an offshore billionaire, Jenrick has received foreign dark money donations recently.
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  459.  @MinkieWinkle  It's got nothing to do with the solar and everything to do with the batteries and the diverter for hot water I can timeshift and open up special tariffs with my supplier including ultra low overnight tariff. All the flexible tariffs are below what I was paying + I'm saving on GAS for heating water. Hence 6 years without them it's 15+
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  460.  @MinkieWinkle  Let me elaborate further In 2023/24 the cost of domestic batteries fell by 20%. The Government this year Zero Vat rated battery packs as part of a domestic install. I was just as surprised as you were at the estimates a few months in and even with minimal sun it looks like the estimates from the solar company were reasonably accurate
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  461.  @MinkieWinkle  Goldman Sachs Electric vehicle battery prices are expected to fall almost 50% by 2026 quote Sodium ion cells, produced at scale, could be 20% to 30% cheaper than lithium ferro/iron-phosphate (LFP), the dominant stationary storage. My Battery cost 1500 + install my tariff went from 24p to 13p overnight 21p during the day and 34p from 4-7pm My total install cost £7500 including 4.2 kwh of panels, 5.2 kwh battery + inverter You can easily set up a spreadsheet and work out
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  462. Why would anyone ever vote Con over the last 50 years since Thatcher when i started voting? They've never been for the people just asset stripping ghouls
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  463. In what alternative reality?
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  464. There not Conservative there more Libertarian in their outlook free market etc.. Remember what the Covid review said Group Think Fatalistic British Exceptionalism
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  465. @Diana-007  the Tories have pumped billions into right to buy completely distorting the housing market, from 2010 to present housing inflation is 66% alone It has become the only way low / medium income earners can get a home It is robbing councils of around 40 billion in funds
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  466. @Diana-007  the Cons have flogged off around 2 million council homes pumping over 100 billion into subsidies over the years creating uncontrolled property inflation while asset stripping around 200 billion in today's money from council assets.
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  467. @markwelch3564  In the context of money, giving “Advice” is a regulated activity. Only firms that are regulated by the Financial Conduct Authority (FCA) can offer this I sold my mother's house recently and got zero financial and tax advice on inheritance or cgt tax, neither the solicitors or estate agents were registered with the FCA why would they want the burden
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  468.  @carlitor4173  she hasn't lied as far as I can see she is not liable for CGT and The Cons have pumped over 100 billion into the housing market inflating prices to the point that a working single parent's only hope of having a permanent roof over there head is to use the same scheme that is destroying council budgets and causing out of control housing inflation.
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  469. He's not Conservative and even more clueless than honest Bob and BadEnoch
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  470. So we have no real energy policy bar leave it up to the private sector no farming policy bar run down UK agri and buy substandard cheap from abroad and no moves to Curb greedflation with anti profiteering regulations and windfall taxes Sunak has even slow balled net zero which would save 10's of billions on energy and given 10's of billions in subsidies to Fossil fuel companies Sunak is doing Sweet FA to help and actively making it worse
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  471. @Christina-g4s We paid low tax during the 80's because of Thatchers asset stripping and blowing all our oil money. My son will inherit enough that he will never have to work again. Last year our government spent 72 billion on energy subsidies, our energy bills were sky high as it was. The water companies she flogged off are loaded with 80 billion in debt and aren't fit for purpose.
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  472. @ I just poured all the money I could into a SIPP tax and NI free Also Stocks and bonds rose by 25% last year I'm now retired if when my son inherits he will be made for life
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  473.  @chrisj9700  No they won't its been calculated that a property tax of 0.5% will only increase tax on 10% the other 90% will either pay the same or less. Currently a detached property in Burnley will pay 1.5% of its value in council tax.
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  474.  @chrisj9700  If 90% will see no change then how is the 10% cash strapped? The reason its needed is the Government have pumped over the last few years near on 700 billion into the economy House price inflation is way over standard inflation due to government policies and on top of that various housing initiatives like right to buy have pumped over another 100 billion into the housing market over the years. People on PAYE are taxed enough its time to unlock some wealth and pay back what has been gifted them by tax breaks and government incentives over 1/2 a decade of Thatcherism so we can do something for younger people in the economy.
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  475.  @PaulStargasm  Renewable energy is cheaper by a long way we just haven't invested in upgrading the grid to take advantage of it
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  476. Because he knows the cost of everything and the value of nothing He's a devout Thatcherite who can't see the destruction short term Thatcherite thinking has done Why have our energy bills trebled? Why are our rivers like open sewers? Why is the housing support bill 20 billion last year? We flogged of and asset stripped council houses so now pump 20 billion a yearintonthe private sector
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  477.  @ravd8082  why would he do that there a bunch of Billionaire sponsored no hopers spouting populist drivel
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  478. Populism = promising the undeliverable Reform economic policies are the same garbage we've had for 13 years - Trickle down Thatcherism, it doesn't work never has never What are there other policies? Fracking Privatise the NHS @jeffsimon9594 
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  479. He's probably one of those millionaire pensioners collecting their 40,000 tax break on the back our our tax hike @matty7758 
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  480. They will not they will sit on the leases reason US oil is $70 a barrel and the break even point currently is $65 a barrel
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  481. ​ @jjefferyworboys8138  Truss and Kwerteng are Libertarian dancing to the tune of big business lobby group that are thinly disguised as think tanks such as The Tax Payers Alliance there's nothing Conservative about them or the ideologues they've surrounded themselves with
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  482. I don't think so he's not into the ultra right wing garbage there currently pedalling
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  483. SNP put in a motion to try stir up trouble in the Labour Party The CON's put in an amendment to Block Labour submitting one, they do it all the time so no meaningful amendment goes forward and the whole debate becomes pointless on an opposition day motion.
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  484.  @TheTwosliceToaster  get yourself a proper hero for the Left not some half baked London intelectual that was living in the past. Until you stop wallowing in this false veneration for an absolute failure where stuck with Beer Korma
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  485.  @scooble  I would suspect Driscol doesn't have the 1st clue about economics especially government economics which is in line with 99% of MP's and 99.9% of the public. And stop using neoliberal as a throwaway comment when you don't appear to know what it means
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  486.  @EileenHall-j9f  what difference does political virtue signalling do? They've been at war in some shape or form since before I started voting 50 years ago
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  487. What do you mean by low taxes? If you vote for a Right wing Party they will implement Trickle Down supply Side Economics If you look at the start of this process with Cameron and Osborne the 1st thing they did was increase VAT unless you are Rich sales taxes have a disproportionate impact on the total level of taxation you pay on your income and assets. Go look up the charts. The cheapest method of funding healthcare by a country mile is through taxation a flat tax or Insurance policy goes into the same bucket as sales taxes again it hits disproportionately middle and lower incomes. Basically if you reduce the size of the state unless your a millionaire + you will pay more tax as a total of your income + assets through regressive taxation. Small sate deregulation exaggerates this effect by removing workers rights and bargaining power as well as using external supply side labour pool to put downward pressure on the labour market. Fire and Rehire + zero hour are legal whatever the government claim
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  488. It cost the state £6,000 per private pupil in tax breaks that's without the gift aid because they have charity status and £9,000 to educate a state pupil so the Government is still quids in with this policy
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  489. There not soviet anymore and their offensives have completely failed also their economy is now in long term dire straits quote Russia stares into population abyss as Putin sends its young men to die · Experts believe Russia may see fewer than 1.2 million births this year
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  490. After the election Starmer will have to deal with Israel who are a strategic western ally Hamas are a terrorist group who are more than happy to use 2.3 million people as human shields with some on the right happy to oblige Blinken is pushing all the levers he can to try deescalate Israel's response and stop a wider conflict spreading across the Middle east Geopolitics is messy
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  491. That particular base is defecting to Reform because the Tories aren't bigoted enough all he's doing is burning down the Blue wall voters
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  492.  @GregOrCreg  The 2 child cap polls well in the red wall, Labour's core strategy is to maximise the vote in target areas to gain an overall majority
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  493.  @joebloggs1574  There are ways of avoiding tax but you need to plan ahead Here's one we used last year my mum died and left quit a bit of cash I put a lot of it into my wifes unused pension allowance to put it into her SIPP gaining +20% tax rebate
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  494. Why aren't they comparing it with Starmer speech which was full of substance.
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  495.  @gen_x_dad  Not all of us are mediocre or only have a single language.
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  496. It's complicated, the realignment of politics as we went through brex1t was masked by a single issue. currently People Under 50 are identifying more with left of centre views especially in urban suburban areas. Older working class especially male are becoming extremely socially Conservative It's soft in that there will be a new coalition formed, the one Boris gained power with is completely busted and the one that Corbyn failed with is now reforged moving towards the centre.
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  497. we can always replace them with migrant labour eh?
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  498.  @CLARKE176  tthe only way of fixing Brexit is realignment with EU standards to remove paperwork Johnson's brexit is only half implemented at best there's way way worse to come
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  499. ​ @chrisj9700 if you dig deeper into the numbers were now into an economic doom loop
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  500. You don't have to live somewhere to use the address for tax purposes. My brother lives in Norway for hmrc purposes and his uk bank accounts he's registered at my house. Rayner owned the property and was registered with hmrc as her primary residence It's the biggest nothingburger I've ever seen
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  501. The government is spending 20 billion on housing support and 40% of people on benefit are in work 3 billion on 250k children when 4.3 million are in poverty just looks like gesture politics to me
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  502. There not investigating the CGT stuff that's froth and nonsense
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  503. ​ @zeeone4492 there not the puppets of Policy Exchange (Sunak) IEA (Truss)
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  504. ​ @malcolmrowe5031 end of capital,punishment, legalising birth control, vast improvements in public services then the witch got in and destroyed everything
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  505. You have wealthy people with vast estates these need breaking up or they perpetually expand at the expense of everyone else
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  506. Renewable energy is the cheapest on the grid both here and in the US has been since 2020 It's about rolling out next gen infrastructure to support it, even the Neanderthals in the GOP can't stop it
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  507. Osborn cut nursing bursaries and doctor training places in 2010 as part of Austerity It will take over a decade to turn that decision around
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  508.  @doghouseriley4732  Quote from the LSE in 2008 The National Minimum Wage is one of the most significant labour market interventions that the Labour government has made, raising the pay of well over one million low paid workers by about 15% overnight at the point of introduction. • Since 1999, the minimum wage has been increased by 30% after adjusting for increases in the retail price index, well above the increase in average earnings over this period. • Prior to its introduction, there were claims that it would not only destroy up to two million jobs but also push up inflation and interest rates as better paid workers sought similar pay increases to their low paid colleagues. • None of these fears have materialised. So far, there is no evidence of significant job losses for the workers most affected by the minimum wage and there have been no obvious knock-on effects on the wages of better paid workers.
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  509. what difference does political virtue signalling do? They've been at war in some shape or form since before I started voting 50 years ago
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  510. The FogHorn of ignorance rides again conning the gullible Biggest driver of legal migration loosing FOM with 2 million in 2 years 50% now being dependants and the average age of the worker being older Biggest driver of illegal migration leaving the EU and the Dublin accord so were not working with our friends and allies to resolve a common problem
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  511. We have a demographic crisis our birth rate is 1.6 which is why we have immigration so your solution is have less kids make the crisis wose and import more workers? Conservative thinking at its finest
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  512. Who funds think tanks that lobby for low taxes for the Billionaire class? Errrrr let me guess And this same think tank influences Truss and Kwerteng which leads to the bond market tanking. Its fkin useless advice and they've as much credibility after what's happened as a circus clown
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  513.  @emilymccartney1593  I'm a pensioner too we are the generation that got everything subsidised house buying low tax from oil money and asset stripping Free higher education and Tax free savings I feel embarrassed that my generation voted in the complete shower that has wrecked the country for 14 years
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  514. We can realign standards without having a new deal which will vastly reduce friction I'ts in both our interests to remove as much friction as possible within the current framework Europe with the UK need a border force that can operate across borders that is well funded to smash the people smuggling gangs
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  515.  @karstenbalamagi8463  The traffickers money is more than likely Laundered in London. Its a massive cross European criminal enterprise worldwide it's estimated to be worth $250 billion
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  516.  @karstenbalamagi8463  money laundering, it's estimated that people trafficking is worth around $250 billion worldwide
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  517.  @oneoflokis  the Corbyn vote of 2017 was pretty much an outlier due to a whole host of reasons, although Labour increased their vote in other demographics they were bleeding working class votes.
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  518. This isn't a new story it's fake outrage by the media, if you don't want them accepting hospitality then write to your MP to change the rules. I'd rather it be declared and above board rather than under the table
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  519. You get less immigration by investing in your economy, the reason its currently high is the Tories invest in nothing
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  520. Data says on average people are 10% worse off than in 2010
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  521. Diversity in that claiming something is true or possible iwhile it plainly isn't?
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  522. ​ Ashwin Varghese  there's all sorts of battery options now from vehicle to grid, sand battery molten metal liquid air etc. there all scalable you just need to accept that's the direction to go in rather than doubling down on oil and gas. 2019 wind became cheaper than gas before the current price rises its now 10x cheaper
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  523.  @goldeneagle99  there's a > 50% voting left leaning parties which means most of his policies will a majority support
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  524. Britannia Unchained straight from the Donkey's Bottom Quote The British are among the worst idlers in the world. We work among the lowest hours, we retire early and our productivity is poor. Whereas Indian children aspire to be doctors or businessmen, the British are more interested in football and pop music. The book is written by Kwasi Kwarteng, Priti Patel, Dominic Raab, Chris Skidmore and Liz Truss The text sets out their vision for the United Kingdom's future as a leading player in the global economy, arguing that Britain needs to adopt a far-reaching form of free market economics, with fewer employment laws
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  525. When are the media going to stop sanewashing a geriatric 80 year old with dementia? DJT should be in a care home not the WH
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  526. The right wing in this country wanted Brexit they conned people into voting for it now one of the consequences of that vote is a tight Labour market yet Right wingers are backsliding on the inevitability that shortages in Labour supply means they have to pay more to retain staff. There are over a hundred thousand vacancies in the NHS at 10% of the workforce and a Billion being spent on agency workers so wake up to reality and give people pay rises
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  527. This is factually untrue, you will have already filled in this form or more likely your daughter or son to claim benefit already You won't be filling this form JUST to claim the fuel allowance
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  528. Welcome to the New Leader of the Conservative Party once Sunak gets booted out as they rebrand Cruel Britannia how toxic can you be UKIP ification of the Tories will be then complete
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  529.  @paulgollum1  There was plenty of money left it was a joke Borrowing was 800 billion of which Brown was responsible for around 250 billion since 2010 borrowing has shot up to 2.4 trillion an increase of 200%
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  530. ​ @MCDONALD6969 if you hadn't noticed the Tories have doled out trickle down tax breaks like sweeties Last budget 4 billion on millionaire pensioners 8 billion on bankers 6 billion on yet another fossil tax break Just pumping money into the NHS won't fix it - example social care for the elderly Planning reform will have a huge impact from enabling quick roll out of grid infrastructure to new social housing, just moving away from developer led housing will have a big impact.
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  531. For tax purposes you don't need to live somewhere to use it as your primary residence. Notice Dowden's careful use of language, they really fear her and thier media dogs will do anything to pull her down
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  532.  @AA-uf3bl  It's not turning Labour because of her but because middle class younger voters are moving out of London into the suburbs, I'm not over happy with Starmer's inner circle doing what they can while they have maximum but this isn't Hakney were talking about.
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  533. what difference does political virtue signalling do? They've been at war in some shape or form since before I started voting 50 years ago
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  534. What eu game playing? Johnson got the sh1test trade deal in uk history
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  535. We issued 1.25 million visas last year with 50% being dependants, if you reduce the number of dependants to 100k because your recruiting from a pool of workers 20 miles away in the EU your net number goes down to 250k Instead of reducing immigration removing FOM tripled it to net 750k Which bit about snake oil salesman does he not understand
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  536.  @haydenhoodless2055  like more scanners and analytical equipment?
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  537. If they only get 3 why did they waste 1 on politicing to try stir up trouble in the Labour party? Surely Scotland has a cost of everything crisis too?
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  538. The country as a whole is socially centre right and fiscally centre left, there's no buy in to sweeping social change, the Tories can get away with imposing all sorts on us with 36% of the vote Labour can not
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  539. Corbyn agenda was pure socialist fantasy it had no chance. Also his foreign policy was absolutely toxic.
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  540. 46 Presidents before her haven't bore any children either
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  541. ​ @nigeltrigger4499 probably all the fake tax ones in project dystopia labour nightmare
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  542. They went hard right chasing reform votes and just stirring up a hornets nest Brexit is a complete failure there is no benifit to leaving only negative
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  543. We have a huge tactical vote and sniping from the left over everything including lying about Labour's Gaza stance Corbyn would never be PM under FPTP or PR, he was a protest vote in 2017 and lost by 62 seats
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  544.  @karlhinze  statute of limitations on this is 4 years, HMRC can only go back 20 if its a deliberate pattern of behaviour, even then you don't have to live somewhere for it to be your primary residence for CGT purposes and Ange would have been on PAYE so there's no paper trail
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  545. @karlhinze  The normal time limit for making assessments is four years following the end of the tax year. This is termed a 'discovery' assessment. The time limit for making an assessment on a person in a case involving a loss of income tax brought about 'carelessly' by that person is six years following the end of the tax year. The 20 year limit is for exceptional cases of knowingly repeated tax fraud
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  546.  @eljay5746  The information we have is that for tax purposes the property was designated her primary residence so CGT doesn't apply (you don't have to live there). Being on PAYE there is no declaration or paper trail.
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  547. The issue is inefficiency all over the system its not even fully computerised, you need to map out the processes to improve productivity by investing in the support infrastructure If you have a machine that reduces time and aleviate staff shortages BUY IT
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  548. The lie about Starmer was started and promoted by far right white nationalist groups on Telegram and Gab Throw gasoline on that fire and it was almost guaranteed to blow up the fact that it has done so so quickly shows how corrupted the Tory alliance with UKIP and BNP voters to get Brexit done has become.
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  549. Corbyn was useless the guy couldn't run a bath let alone the country he'd have an intellectual argument with himself about weather to walk the dog clockwise or anticlockwise round the park He was a populist that gave you fantasy socialism and nostalgia no more use than a right wing populist both doomed to failure
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  550. ​ @alexritchie4586 London South East I've worked in IT my entire life I could have doubled my pay moving down there at double the cost of housing
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  551. Labours insulation policy will provide grants and help reduce bills as well as altering planning so new homes don't have to be retrofitted with insulation @markwelch3564 
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  552. Just under 1 trillion and ownership of a social media platform which he changed the algorithms to benifit trump
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  553.  @seanbowe5529  Russia
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  554. any vote by us is just virtue signalling it has zero effect What would help is if we took Palestinian refugees but that is politically toxic I dunno why so much air time is wasted on this
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  555. He could never attract the votes of older left leaning people like me who thought his economic policies where completely unworkable intellectual nostalgia and his foreign policies where a total car crash.
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  556. I'm so proud of the boys, they didn't play well but Philips Rice and Mount where in their first tournament, this is England's first appearance in a Euro final Congrats to Italy
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  557.  @atomiccritter6492  I'm 64 to me there boys.
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  558.  @atomiccritter6492  what a weird thing to say
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  559. Make America Garbage Again - how quaint You can't escape the economic reality that renewable energy is cheaper those states embracing it will have a huge competitive advantage of cheap energy Will the sh1th0le red states just keep sponging forevermore?
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  560. If you remove FOM and run supply side trickle down economics aka Thatcherism then you need migrant Labour and if its not coming from the EU then your giving permanent visa's to Indian and Nigerian workers who quite rightly won't come unless they fetch their families. Over half the immigration total is dependants If you want less immigration change the economic model institute an equitable progressive tax system and properly fund Social and Physical infrastructure to create a demand side economy The Tories can't fix it its baked into their economic ideology
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  561. part of the Libertarian network worldwide that lobby for low corporate and wealth tax + deny climate change and want to turn human capital into disposable units. GBN billionaire owner is Libertarian with connections to the Legatum institute which in turn has links to the Heritage Foundation in the US bad bad people
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  562. Go read up up Stockholm Syndrome
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  563. To people on the Centre centre-right and centre-left it's about getting real and stop trying to promise a socialist fantasy Most people in that bracket would admit to Thatcherism privatised utilities as a semi failure but there not going to sign on to wasting 1 trillion renationalizing them
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  564. Johnson is a complete Rake The guy is a serial liar and cheater with his partners how about the daily hate mail looks at that
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  565. @keithparker1346  the core problem is Thatcherism aka supply side trickle down + Austerity and we have a supply side shortage of Energy, Food, Housing & Labour Starmer has railed against a number of trickle down policies and the billions given in fossil subsidies + at the macro level is proposing GBEnergy to increase supply, reversing the current farming policy and housebuilding especially social housing Just by reversing some policies and chipping away at the above shortages by a few % points will have a huge macro economic effect the cost of the on demand gas generation for electricity is eye watering in price distorting the whole market there's just under 100 billion in fossil subsidies baked into the system etc.
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  566. @keithparker1346  I've just said GBEnergy and you've put your fingers in your ears it may not be as much as people want but it's a complete reversal on current government policy increased energy supply will have a ripple effect throughout the economy if combined with planning reform. Gas spot price during winter is up to x6 more expensive than renewable the biggest problem is planning and grid connectivity at the momment
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  567.  @buddha1736  The Cons have made that impossible by forcing a hard Brexit if you had the equivalent of the Irish Protocol or we were still in the single market it would be possible but now there shafted like everyone else.
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  568.  @JohnDoe-hm2zz  Vote leave promised access to the single market Daniel Hannan and Nigel Farage both said we would be crazy to leave the single market and there not wrong. Thee rhetoric before the vote was of a Norway style deal. The Brextremists now want Singapore on Thames which is a complete fantasy based on the heady days of the British empire when we could force trade via gunboat diplomacy. Also the EU put plans in place in 2016 to decouple the City as much as possible from the single market. We are now stuck in limbo where farmers fisherman and manufacturing are getting crushed the City has had trillions in business yanked from it with no feasible plan to move forward bar endless worthless policy initiatives that don't have any money in them. Even refugee numbers have trebled duhhh borders have 2 sides
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  569. If you remove FOM and run supply side trickle down economics aka Thatcherism then you need migrant Labour and if its not coming from the EU then your giving permanent visa's to Indian and Nigerian workers who quite rightly won't come unless they fetch their families. Over half the immigration total is dependants If you want less immigration change the economic model institute an equitable progressive tax system and properly fund Social and Physical infrastructure to create a DEMAND side economy
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  570.  @manvbees  the tax base remained at 33% for the last 2 decades till 7 bins came along what proof do you have that taxes will rise for the average person under Labour given you have no historical data to back that up?
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  571.  @manvbees  Over the last 2 decades till Sunak took charge the tax base was 33% so what evidence do you have that a Labour government would be worse than the current lot in terms of taxation for the average person?
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  572. Farage gets endless free publicity on TV, the Lib-Dems have huge numbers of activists getting the vote out on the ground as well as thousands of councillors. quote The Liberal Democrats have just over 3100 councillors across the UK, currently leading 69 councils across England and Wales.
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  573.  @williamwilson8582  There was a window of opportunity in 2019 the Tory rebels would have supported a government to sort out a deal and a 2nd referendum just not with Corbyn in charge. The only way for that to happen was for Corbyn and his supporters to swallow their pride and do what was best for the country they wouldn't do it and called an election instead with 2 years still left to run. What really winds me up is this constant ulegising of Corbyn he was was a complete failure when the country needed true leadership he went missing
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  574.  @leshazell6050  He would have been removed there was no Tory majority. There was enough Tory moderates willing to back a national unity government to break the Brexit deadlock
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  575.  @kinginthenorth5267  there's still 50 billion in unfundeded tax cuts debt to GDP at > 100% and a market response which has increased government borrowing costs by +2% in the last 10 days We have now thanks to this bunch the real spectre of housing market crash as the base rate is likely to go to 5.5% and borrowing rates will be 7/8%
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  576. World beating Stagflation The week that the cabinet decided to remove caps on fat cat City pay, manager of Birmingham Airport had a 49% pay rise, Heathrow Airport director got 85% pay rise and Manchester 25% If the fat cats get any fatter they'll be unable to move for all that money
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  577. Badenoch lies a lot as well This skirting with the truth seems to have mushroomed with brex1t and Boris
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  578. I couldn't have ever voted for him nor would any of my family my Dad was a paratrooper in the war lost half his immediate family to Russian atrocities, there's no way a peacenik Socialist Intellectual idealogue who has never solved a political problem in his life or compromised to get anything done could ever persuade me to support him. I'm socially Liberal fiscally left leaning yet he was electorally toxic to a huge swath of the voting public especially elderly voters like me.
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  579. Conservatives economic model is Trickle down supply side to work it needs globalization and a continuous supply side cheap labour force otherwise you need to invest in physical and social infrastructure with a fairer tax system which deals with wealth created by wealth which is pretty much untaxed. 750,000 is a result of hard Brexit and loosing FOM in 2019 we had net 200,000 an EU worker comes over here without dependants sometimes temporary in 2023 we have net 750,000 with wives husbands and kids coming from outside Europe
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  580.  @31Blaize  He's an MP for the home counties the South East and London are a different country in terms of investment and the political leaning is Centre/ Centre-Right. This was brought home to me when I saw the figures for transport investment it's something like 800 per person in London the South East and 300 per person in the North East.
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  581. What gets me is the toadies that cling onto his coattails like Mogg how subservient do you have to be to lie constantly to defend BoJo
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  582.  @batcollins3714  The Lib-Dems have over 3000 councillors and a huge ground game just think what they could have done with the media exposure and boosterism of the MSM
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  583.  @michaeladkins6  we need factory built homes there isn't enough builders and trades people round period. And the Tories have used manpower to paper over lack of infrastructure investment in the NHS also did you know we have invested the least in the developed world in robots I'm not saying we don't need some migration but we have to find sustainable solutions to our problems
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  584. 9 billion is the whole of the public sector not just civil servants and under 12 years of Tory rule nurse's for example have had a 10% cut in average salary
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  585.  @banana_necessary  The Lib Dems have a huge ground game and dedicated activists I saw zero Tories campaigning and had 3 visits from a Lib-Dem including on election day to get out the vote. Reform are just a national foghorn that the media promote ceaselessly
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  586. what difference does political virtue signalling do? They've been at war in some shape or form since before I started voting 50 years ago
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  587.  @johnburrows3385  selling off assets then leasing it back to fund tax cuts has got to be the dumbest thing this country has done bar Brexit The idea that Trickle down even remotely works is completely busted by 13 years of economic stagnation quote from a US study 2012 Three Decades of Empirical Economic Data Shows That Supply-Side Economics Doesn’t Work When put to the test in the real world, supply-side policies did not deliver as promised. In fact, by every important measure, our nation’s economic performance after the tax increases of 1993 significantly outpaced that of the periods following the tax cuts of the early 1980s and the early 2000s.
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  588. You can have lower immigration but you need higher taxes to pay for the social and physical infrastructure needed to support it Its a much more managed economy completely Alien to Conservative Thatcherism
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  589. They have some Con apologists on Nik Ferrari Iain Dale Rachel Johnson Even if your right leaning why you wouldn't rip into this complete shower is beyond me the current migrant policy is for optics nothing else it doesn't deal with the problem in any shape or form
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  590.  @darrenwilson146  There's opinion and fact the main issue is right wing spouting opinion when it contradicts known facts Fact Brexit will severely damage our economy so why come on a radio station and argue otherwise. Fact Sunak's small boats bill will do nothing its purley for optics
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  591.  @dave07drummer  he's a rampant leftie just coz he thought the Corbyn agenda was completely unrealistic? Corbyn would never deliver a majority even in 2017 he was 64 seats short before his disastrous 2019 showing. His foreign policy stank to high heaven he had zero chance of attracting moderates by 2019 he was an albatross round the party
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  592. Right wing economics needs migration to work If you want lower migration you need to put taxes up invest in your domestic workforce and properly regulate the labour market. Farage is promising low tax deregulation as well as low migration these are mutually exclusive, he wold turn the economy into Argentina on the Channel trying
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  593. @DoggleBird  sorry to burst your bubble but high migration is the result of decades of Thatcherism You can't run low migration with a low wage deregulated labour market with low tax. We're already seeing a huge brain drain then having to replace skills with migrant labour.
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  594.  @DoggleBird  Yes it does if you want low taxation and low regulation. EX the GIG economy under Cameron - no regulation of gig work so over 1 million came in from Europe and tripling student fees so we went down from a 38% high to 35% now and have been moving inexorably to a low wage economy.
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  595. What about people with Autism and special needs?
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  596. Family farms in Yorkshire near me cost around 2.5 million Well under the 3 million a couple
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  597. ​ @space.youtube Bernie has tirelessly campaigned to raise the minimum wage and expand healthcare access to low paid Americans as well as fight for decent regulatory standards and have a fairer tax system. One of the drivers of Bidens green agenda which will transform the US economy Working class middle class who cares he's an absolute hero
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  598. For tax purposes you don't need to live somewhere to use it as your primary residence. Also There's nothing connecting your address for voting to your tax address That's why Dowden was careful to say primary residence, the whole thing is a mud slinging exercise which you appear to have bought into
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  599. So you think supporting a pointless amendment that doesn't do what everyone claims it does because it's written wrong on your 1st vote after 14 years out of power is a smart move?
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  600. In the last 2 and 1/2 years our living standards have fallen 4.2% most of it under his watch and cumulative inflation is 20% Also Food staples have doubled And Over 14 years rent and housing has risen by 66% whilwages have stagnated or declined
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  601.  @willrichardson519  the bulk of the inflation is Supply Side Corporate on inelastic commodities (essential food and energy) the issue is zero control of the supply chain with large multi nationals essentially able to operate in Cartel conditions We need to ditch fossil and produce more sustainable food instead pig farmers are going bankrupt and we're going to start fracking
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  602.  @segue2ant395  The Big Bang was the deregulation of financial markets effected by UK Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher in 1986. Quote Prime minister Gordon Brown has apologised for reducing regulations on banks in the years leading up to the financial crisis, admitting that the Labour government ‘should have done more’. Its kind of 1 - 1 on responsibility the Tories where all for Brown's approach what made it so bad for the UK economy was the heavy reliance on the service industry after the Thatcher years. The Tories have been talking about Big Bang 2 so there's plenty of mud to sling given the Tories seem to have learned nothing about deregulation and its consequences
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  603. Thatcher reforms where paid for by Oil revenue Asset Stripping Globalisation and giving away free houses tax cuts have never worked it funnels money to the asset class and corporations put it into share buybacks returning somewhere in the region of 20p in the £ its a complete CON Here's how successful 13 years of Thatcherism + Austerity has been 2007 GDP 3.093 Trillion 2023 GDP 3.113 Trillion Disposable income 2007 £6554 2023 £6053 Debt to GDP 2007 40% 2023 100%
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  604. ​ @ravd8082 if you put up trade barriers you increase red tape and paperwork that cost is passed on to the consumer. We also have less choice again that raises prices we trade less so less GDP that raises taxes
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  605.  @johnrussell3961  government debt has a number of main components. Its size relative to your economy (% debt to gdp) What that debt is invested in + Your ability to service that debt. The issue is Austerity has shrunk/stagnated the economy so your debt to gdp has risen and the debt itself was used on trickle down tax cuts NOT infrastructure. The easiest way of lowering the ratio is tackle the energy, housing and transport crisis but to do that you need to invest in infrastructure. What costs more than an infrastructure project with escalating costs? Cancelling an infrastructure project with escalating costs Reason it needs doing in some firm anyway
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  606. Corbyn completely unelectable 62 seats short on 40% While Starmer coalition looks thin it was watered down from the hard left coalition of the corbynistas which allowed electoral success across the country including the South and Scotland
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  607. The solution is to reform modernise and rip out all the outsourcing 10% of the admin budget goes on liaising with the private sector We still have paper records etc. @Human_Herbivore 
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  608. Drip Drip Drip how low can there polling go drip
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  609. It will be as late as he can get away with The Tories have broken the economy because Thatcherism Sunak is doing more Thatcherism our Tax is going up he's cutting squat current 20% threshold = 12250 if it had gone up with inflation it would be 14350 that is the NI threshold as well
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  610.  @TimComley  statute of limitations on this is 4 years, HMRC can only go back 20 if its a deliberate pattern of behaviour, also you don't have to live somewhere to claim it as your primary residence & Ange would have been on PAYE so basically this is all Tory froth and nonsense
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  611. Corbyn was a foreign policy car crash
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  612. Argggggh the reason pensioners are going to pay income tax is because you muppets froze the 20% threshold, you have already cost me an extra £560 last year in additional tax through fiscal drag and My wife is nearing retirement age you will cost us 12,000 straight off the bat because your going to update the pension age to at least 67 rumours say 68
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  613. this is the culmination and embodiment of Brexit Truss is the champion of the ERG and the Brexit Ultra's, Kwerteng is the vehicle of the ultra right think tanks wanting to move to this utopian free market City vision of Singapore on Thames. Both visions are economically unworkable and batshit crazy what Johnson did was play the English Nationalist off against them his mistake was hollowing out his party of one nation Tories and absorbing the dregs of UKIP. The Tories have a major problem the longer blunder Truss and Kami Kwasi are in power the more damage they will do to the UK and possibly world economy
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  614. 46 presidents before her haven't bore children either
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  615. He lost as soon as Harris walked over to him and shook his hand he couldn't look at her. Just a complete aura of dominance and command we've not seen since Obama.
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  616. Since when did either Labour or the Cons have any political power over Isreal? Everyone has been coling for a 2 state solution for decades Owen calling for gesture politics as usual
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  617.  @zoltanbarath7371  that's >100 years ago
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  618. Over 14 years they have borrowed 1.3 trillion and Real GDP has risen by a mere 100 billion to achieve that paltry rise they increased the population by 8 million making gdp per capita sink from 50k to 45k Everything is worse than 14 years ago
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  619.  @stuartparker6838  it's a relic of empire and the original residents ended up in Mauritiam shanty towns with no compensation
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  620. your joking right this is important to you I have one thing to say your speaking for no one but yourself Get A Life
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  621.  @PFB-yo6wi  Its a plan it will never get enacted because we are 2 years away from an election If they were or had been in power we would have had a more resilient generating profile and better insulated homes this is from carbon brief Updated Carbon Brief analysis shows that energy bills would have been £9.5bn lower under the October price cap and £13bn lower in January, if successive Conservative-led governments had not rolled back climate policies over the past decade.
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  622.  @johnsartmaterialguidestuto7757  I did read it properly. The Tories promised the business community a Utopian land with brexit, this would be better than Thatchers big bang the remaking of Britain. We are all aware now that they didn't have a plan still don't have a plan and that Boris is a big gasbag. Contempt for the conmen, compassion for the conned even if there multi millionaires
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  623. Kwasi Kwarteng made the right decision in swiftly cutting taxes, Nigel Farage said, dealing a blow to global economic institutions which have warned against the economic policy.
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  624. Its not a critical issue for you loosing the election that's long gone. So your answer to people trafficking is to do illegal people trafficking
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  625. She could start a fight in an empty room Zero temperament for leadership And Part of the worst government in this country's history So Dream on
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  626. Reform aren't Conservative Libertarian economics with National populism. The bulk of the Con base is modetate the bulk only stuck with them because of project dystopia fear on a labour win plus thier over 65 vote will wane
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  627. In what way our defence capability has been hollowed out by Tory cuts to the point you'd expect the Con's to outsource it to he Wagner group
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  628. The Tories are going crazy look at the Rwanda plan nearly 1/2 a billion on nothing there a complete skip fire
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  629. No they won't there economic policies are just rebranded Thatcherism the same policies that are driving us over the cliff
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  630. They didn't even understand what they were voting for the 2 child limit is a universal credit not a benefit, anyone on benefits has different rules applied
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  631. They lost 2 more points in the polls Labour gained 3 last week its a sign there at least trying to shore up a few blue wall seats before the election wipe out
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  632.  @korayven9255  you will get large numbers of local activists abandoning them, I live in what was a blue wall seat that went lib dem The Tory ground game has already fallen apart any further erosion will see it become electorally irrelevant and its numbers dip further. Farage isnt Conservative
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  633. There not doing anything on the energy bills that makes sense the bulk of the cost should be on taxing Super Profit and why are we giving energy subsidies to companies such as Octopus that are providing 100% renewable energy which is a fraction of the wholesale gas price?
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  634. Trump surrounds himself with grifters and yes men, even the non cov years where chaos
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  635. ​ @tompearce3610 Corbyn sank Corbyn he was unelectable to large swathes of the population His popularity when he handed an 80 seat majority to the Tories on a plate was at Truss like lows
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  636. Migration both legal and illegal has skyrocketed because we removed FOM and left the EU you were told by experts this would happen but you labelled it project fear and yet your supporting doubling down on what's causing the rising numbers, Why? 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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  637.  @janickpauwels3792  I could run 90% of the time off grid if I had a battery How you may ask I added an extension last year and refurbished my house to A+ standard double insulated + underfloor heating on the ground floor which hasn't tripped on since April. My solar far outstrips usage at the moment (I have gas heating but hot water is solar thermal) It's not just about big windmills there's tech around to use EV batteries for grid stabilisation with V2G offering low off peak in exchange
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  638.  @spotcatsteve3752  indeed apply logic I installed thermal solar last year 75% of hot water is now free. Accounting for capital costs it's paid for itself in 8 years aaaand less if inflation keeps as it is. This is the economics of net zero
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  639.  @tyromenobber-fb2ls  that whole tirade is completely delusional. Our economy isn't growing. We have a whole service and banking sector disconnected from 90% of the population. Who cares if banking profits are up and let's also be aware that part of that economic growth is the increase from 30 to 170 billion spent on energy costs.
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  640. @alanhat5252  go read the labour motion that was passed, I don't get what you people want?
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  641.  @alanhat5252  Owen is a champagne socialist London elite he needs to realise that a lot of working class people are socialy quite Conservative especially the older ones and stop trying to ram a paecenik has been in Corbyn down their throats.
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  642. In the Boris Johnson levelling up government ooop
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  643. Clacton is one of the most deprived in the country, lets hope Kier can turn round places like this that have sunk into the Abyss under the Tories
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  644. They put a 90% windfall tax on the energy companies and redistributed the money to customers lowering core inflation Error No wait that was Labour's plan thy elected Liz Truss instead
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  645. She asset stripped the country of in today's money around 1.2 trillion to the private sector. If you have an asset such as a house power station, water company, you're expecting a % return on that asset. 5% of 1.2 trillion is a huge amount to pull out of an economy much of it going offshore.
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  646.  @PaulineLittlewood  The form is a generic claim benefit form, you will already have filled it in. You wouldn't qualify based on fuel payment alone
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  647. @amcc5887  the Tories and FPTP They had an 80 seat majority with 42% of the vote Cameron had only 36% twice It needs to be cross party before we even start talking about
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  648.  @keithparker1346  Johnson was offered a recipricol performing artists agreement within the framework he wanted as hard a Brexit as possible and its still possible within the TCA. The visa system is completly broken if you need fruit pickers your mired in paperwork and the visa length doesn't cover the season. No service sector agreement
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  649.  @keithparker1346  unless you have a tug to pull us round to pacific then trade gravity will drag us back into some form of single market and 3.5 trillion trade in Euro futures isn't meaningless stuff or the 10 billion lost in performing artists 61% of the working population is employed by SME'S thier only for growth is their nearest market the EU we either move back towards Europe or we don't grow
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  650. accept what? we will move toward Europe for trade that's the nature of Trade Gravity. It isn't interested in meaningless slogans empty rhetoric all your doing trying to defy it is wasting energy and causing Economic pain. So how much economic pain do you want to inflict before the inevitable turn back to Europe because our Current course is economically unsustainable. The Brexiteers promised Singapore on Thames they Delivered Argentina on the Channel  @keithparker1346 
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  651. You've gotta laugh at the faux outrage
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  652. She's an out and out disaster capitalist, her economic viewpoints are completely toxic to 90+% of the workforce
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  653. cancelled HS2/3 abandoned the green agenda Put in no end of trickle down tax breakes Hiked taxes up to post war levels What could he have done? Removed block on onshore wind, changed planning to allow rapid deployment of the renewable grid, increased insulation requirements on new builds and extensions, turb9 charging our push to renewables which would have reduced the 72 billion spent on energy support
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  654. Our economy is tied at the hip to fossil commodity prices how about we have a concerted effort to disconnect that link
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  655. Net zero prioritises the British people @jaybee4288 
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  656. People voted to leave the EU not the Shengan Area or the single Market We have next to no trade deal on goods and zero trade deal on Services Norway is not in the EU neither is Switzerland both have access to the market
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  657.  @lizdocherty3067  Reform policy that's a bit of an Oxymoron who would vote for Giving up your human rights fracking privatised NHS indoctrinating my grand kids with Her Farage's version of British studies Liz Truss style tax cuts Privatise the BBC it's completely off the charts right wing insanity
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  658.  @thereselite  Older voters even if they are left leaning don't want anything to to do with a peacenik London elite wannabe socialist talking shop My mum voted for Atlee post war she thought JC was a complete joke wanted nothing to do with him wouldn't even vote labour switched to lib dem
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  659. The Con brand is toxic Complete economic failure with Truss and brexit Complete failure on immigration And Immigration is a consequence of right wing low tax low wage deregulated labour market, both Con and Reform reckon you can have your cake and eat it, all they'll do is wreck the economy further trying.
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  660. If we were a truth loving nation Johnson and his Cabal would have had the drubbing of a lifetime at the election instead they elected a lying con man and his handler
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  661.  @domispablo7992  the Blair project created 40% of school leavers to graduates and while the Tories are actively trying to get that number down education creates a more critical thinking Liberal mindset which the right are actively trying to put down. Yougov put the demographic switching to Reform as 50+ male uneducated basically your older working class
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  662.  @jasonuren3479  Rail not striking and being nationalised into a coherent transport system what's not to like
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  663.  @oldfogey4679  If you really were a Dem you'd vote for a dog with a blue rosette over trump
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  664. As a leader Corbyn was worse than useless his biggest failing was allowing himself to be manipulated by those around him. The guy is an intellectual stuck in 1980 selling nostalgia The country needed leadership and it got Corbyn May bot and Bojo Don't come back and say but principles he was still useless get a proper hero for the left someone with vision and leadership who can compromise and actually get things done
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  665. Better than Putin having control of all that land and 40 million people to conscript
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  666. The Tories are UKIP with a new name. The public will vote centre a bit left or a bit right Johnson got in because Labour had Corbyn and lied through his teeth
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  667. People with an economic background have already called his defence spending plan an unfunded work of fiction, the numbers presented to make up the 75 billion were taken from 2 different data sets. When Brow tried it back in early new Labour days he got rightly hauled over the coals for it.
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  668. Tory activists that do leaflet drops and canvassing would abandon the party in droves if Nige is welcomed in The voting core they have left get warm and fuzzy over Thatcher and are Cameron like socially Liberal, Badenoch and Jenerick are a gift for the other parties
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  669. ​ @chrisj9700 this is capital expenditure dolled out by Whitehall
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  670.  @JohnnyRingo-c5v  58% are breaking centre left, 35% are breaking right. Even with Corbyn in charge the left vote was >50% if you add up all the parties on the left
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  671. Our deal with the EU lapses in 2026 and ev has to be 60% made in British or it gets tariff Port Tolbot was the same coked steel ​ @rb1062 
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  672. Reform have serious policies? Where did they find that joker from? Quote An earthquake with a magnitude of 2.9 has been recorded near the UK's only active shale gas site in Lancashire. The tremor near Blackpool was stronger than those that forced Cuadrilla to suspend test fracking
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  673. And an increase in tax due to fiscal drag of £550 + Pensioners are affected more by food and energy inflation as the average pension income is 18,000 with 4 out of 10 reaching 66 and retiring into poverty
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  674.  @allip4226  I've lived where I am since 1985 and aren't going anywhere but agree I should pay for that decision. 2 million houses have been flogged off on the cheap and not replaced this will increasingly affect pensioners thers around 1 million people over 55 currently renting
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  675. Totally naive if you think Israel is remotely interested in a ceasefire either the far right who make up part of the current coalition want the west bank and gaza ethnically cleansed Also Israel doesn't have the ground troops to subjugate an Urban area the size of Birmingham with 2.3 million people in it @SueCarr-q8n 
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  676. If you have assets they accumulate, my SIPP pension has risen by. 11% in value since Jan due to the stock markets around the world rising, the question is at what point do you pay tax and by how much? We need a meaningful property tax not the post poll tax fudge we have and CGT needs to reflect income tax, also stop offshoring and offshore trusts
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  677. with extreme heat comes climate disaster in the form of ruined crops therefore food shortages glad your OK with spiralling food prices stop listening to the propaganda and use some critical thinking this is about money and power renewable energy has been cheaper than the alternatives since 2019 the current energy crisis is siphoning 170 billion in excess profits out of our pockets to the energy companies aided and helped by the UK government
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  678.  @NB-nk1qy  why define yourself as right wing? The reason the economy is in the toilet is Ideology and following it no matter what the data. The state of the country is in is because it's been hollowed out for 14 years trying to get a tune out of Thatcherism, all Reform promise is the same on steroids
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  679. If you follow US politics then Corbyn is a nothingburger compared to Bernie the guy got things done All Corbyn did was ruminate endlessly try sell nostalgia for a world pre Thatcher and loose 2 elections he achieved ZERO ZIP NADA
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  680. @craiga657  what are MP'S supposed to do to with regard to talking to industry leaders not engage in corporate hob nabbing Also for the likes of Starmer he's a publicity known figure he's not going to holiday at Butlins And 20k in freebies buys what exactly a mere few hours for various interests to put thier points over. The problem is fake 2nd jobs not some tickets to a corporate box or free use of a holiday apartment and why now this has been par for the course for like forever
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  681.  @HarryNottings  This deluded liberal has already invested in insulation upgrades + solar and a battery, fk em let them freeze and leave this mortal coil from heatstroke
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  682. He knows the cost of everything and the value of nothing He's a devout Thatcherite who can't see the destruction short term Thatcherite thinking has done Why have our energy bills trebled? Why are our rivers like open sewers? Why is the housing support bill 20 billion last year? We flogged of and asset stripped council houses so now pump 20 billion a yearintonthe private sector
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  683. difference is the Toryies talk the talk Labour will actually fund stuff and not gaslight so no there polar opposites
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  684.  @britnatzaredemocracydenier5922  reduced waiting lists, investing in insulation for domestic properties, green lighting Mayors to build council houses
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  685.  @britnatzaredemocracydenier5922  every economist outside of Tufton street thinks Austerity is the Root cause of our economic stagnation lowering living standards. All the think tanks that Reeve and Starmer consult with are on the same page with regard to reversing Austerity opening up Transport in the North and kick starting a full scale house building program.
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  686. There bricking it because the privileges committee will find him guilty and recommend a 30 day suspension triggering a recall petition and Boris loosing his seat
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  687.  @chatham43  because they've destroyed the economy doing it average wages are -7% since 2010
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  688. wealth taxes are notoriously hard to collect and administrative cumbersome easier to reband council tax and have a share transaction levy
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  689. You know with the ulez thing the Cons will go full climate denial
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  690. statute of limitations on this is 4 years, HMRC can only go back 20 if its a deliberate pattern of behaviour Anyone looking at this can see it's just political and will backfire
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  691.  @bigfisher4354  Joined 5 Mar 2024 = tory troll. Tax base = 33% during Blair / Brown so it has as much credibility as 7 bins and meat tax
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  692.  @bigfisher4354  propped up by oil Money and Asset stripping the Tories blew the lot on tax cuts. 2010 to 2019 base was 33% Osborne repeatedly tried to cut tax with zero economic success all he did was blow a 1 trillion hole in public finances.
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  693.  @bigfisher4354  we are now 8 Quarters straight of negative Per Capita GDP growth
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  694.  @bigfisher4354  The consumer spend on energy in 2020 was 30 Billion in 2023 it was 170 billion equivalent to increasing the 20% threshold to a 40% tax rate
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  695.  @R3tr0v1ru5  so the economic lift that Labour gives the economy is just a coincidence? All you get with so called Conservative or what are called pro capitalism is Socialism for the rich with endless tax cuts and breaks paid for with capitalism for the poor who are locked into paye.
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  696.  @Trendycosmetics-os6gh  Sunak has done zero to affect inflation and has no plan but a set of flailing promises to try keep his backbenchers from oustinghim. 1st any tax cut won't create growth and is unsustainable with borrowing last year at 130 billion and debt to gdp rising, second to actively cut inflation he'd need to address the energy crisis. 2 years on the price gauging by the energy Companies is at an all time high with British Gas recording 950% increase in profits in a closed public monopoly market thanks to Sunak and the feckless Tories. You wanna be poor keep voting for the likes of Sunak whi is clueless
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  697.  @sherbertufo5247  rejoin the single market then
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  698. @sherbertufo5247  untrue, an economy recovers and grows with its small and medium businesses Take performing arts a multi billion £ industry cut off from its main market with no alternative Port Talbot closing because of 3rd country status Supply chains going from on demand to next month if your lucky Stick your head in the sand if you want but it's economic term is trade gravity which never alters and the only way of fixing our economy is to revers as much of brexit as possible
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  699. My son has Autism, it took nearly a year of hard graft from me and I'm retired to get him a job, his main issue is he can be very non verbal. I read books went through online material putting together a package for a prospective employer, got him some voluntary work for experience and then wrote around. He is now 4 years employed been employee of the year and is happy, BUT he needed so much support to get there this year at 25 he past his driving test thanks to his boss insisting he needed to take it to drive the estate machinery. H now drives to work and is nearly independent. I retired early and had endless time and resource to throw at this but without support with detailed knowledge of Autism a plan for employers this would never have happened. People with special needs NEED support not kicking off the benefit system because they don't have it.
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  700.  @hoxtondave9619  the 2 countries that locked down properly NZ and Canada are on for 3% growth next year so stick your lockdown theories the nearest garbage bin The UK and Russia are the only 2 countries in the G20 who won't have growth the connection being one is under sanctions and the UK put trade sanctions on itself with Brexit and there both suffering a brain drain
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  701. any vote by us is just virtue signalling it has zero effect What would help is if we took Palestinian refugees but that is politically toxic, with Labour on a +20 point lead the MSM need to try make it look like the next election is some sort of contest
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  702.  @simondavies2262  They've been pumping billions into right wing politics to try derail net zero including in this country It breaks their business model if a country has control of it's own energy ex 40% of world shipping is dedicated to moving fossil around
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  703. General political push from all parties has been a 2 state solution for decades none have any power over Isreal
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  704. Brexit the biggest driver of migration ever implemented 2 years 2 million visas go figure
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  705. If you where investing in the future of this country university would be free
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  706. ​ @julianshepherd2038 in 2019 we where still in the EU and our debt to gdp was 92% Today we've applied severe trade sanctions with our closest market leading to a hit to GDP of 5.5% (or = 50 billion in lost tax revenue) the economy resembles a skip fire with raging inflation from supply side shortages of Energy Food Housing Labour + The current government's position is to let the BOE apply a demand side policy to crush the UK economy further if you think its bad now wait till next spring when rates will be 6.5% because Sunak is doing fk all to increase supply of any of the above
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  707.  @chrisj9700  Your having a laugh the paperwork red tape and tariffs has destroyed the On-Demand Supply chain we used to have through Europe were now the customer of last resort for many firms delays are in weeks before we got goods overnight or next day. were completly fked as a destination for large multinational businesses. as an example my wife deals with multiple countries in the EU each one has different systems for trading with a 3rd country (UK) the paperwork regarding VAT alone is the stuff of nightmares its gone from 3 VAT rates to 27. The waste is in the 10's of billions and its only 1/2 implemented there is worse to come
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  708.  @chrisj9700  inflation Quote Adding up the impact on all British households suggested they had paid an extra £6.95bn as a consequence, they said. “Between December 2019 and March 2023 food prices rose by almost 25%. This analysis suggests that in the absence of Brexit this figure would be 8 percentage points (30%) lower,” the report found.
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  709.  @TomMAF4  I wish the public where more active in finding out how there getting skinned senseless by Thatcherite trickle down policies + Austerity but they've voted the Tories in 13 years straight. The IMF recommended a post pandemic wealth tax way back wrote to my MP about it Crickets in the political ranks and crickets in the Media. I have very little faith in the public sad to say
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  710.  @Jay-cp9kd  Gaza is the size of Birmingham with over double the number of people in it blockaded at every side. (2.3 million as opposed to Birmingham at 900,000) There is nowhere to go
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  711. If you want lower imigration you need to pay public sector workers the going rate And Pay suppression as well as creating a high migration PULL factor also suppression wages in the private sector
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  712.  @missaj5623  The Conservatives have inflated the property market by pumping billions into right to buy to the point anyone on low medium income it is now the only way of ever owning your own home. Cameron pumped billions into the scheme and since 2010 house prices have risen by 66% while real wages average have fallen by -7%
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  713. Nick Ferrari actually holding the Cons to account things must be bad The level of tactical voting was off the charts and no one expects the Lib-Dems to get 20% in the General or the Greens to get much at all so vote share is irrelevant
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  714. better than the +10-20 billion in rebuilding our armed forces to defend against Putin invasion
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  715. ​@johnrussell3961 no they won't those that are in the blue wall are going to vote Lib-Dem and Starmer is seen as mostly harmless
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  716. 20% is around the % of the population that have prospered under the Tories in the last 14% years, what is starting to bite into that number is healthcare
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  717.  @domispablo7992  If voting for complete failure is regarded by you as the only option maybe you should reevaluate your political leanings? Try these websites Resolution Foundation Joseph Rowntree Foundation and these publications New Statesman New European Byline Times
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  718. An 80 year old london elite and his inner circle talking shop, give it a rest the guy was the worst labour leader at the worst possible time
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  719.  @goych  Thatcher and the Tories created the housing bubble and the Tory voting pensioner is mostly working class bribed by the Cons who asset stripped the country to do it. I'm under no illusion that the tax system benifts me bigly by taxing work over wealth, I'm all for a fair property tax but there is an ever increasing group of pensioners who are slipping into poverty
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  720.  @goych  I'm fully in favour of a property tax to replace council tax but don't think anyone would dare to be so radical
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  721.  @goych  since when? House prices have risen 66% since 2010 wages have fallen by -7% The Tories have deliberately created low wage generation rent
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  722. Brilliant campaigning by Sunak your going to see a mass of youngsters sign up to vote in this election to make sure these clowns get no where near power Sunak's Truss moment you couldn't write it
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  723. Reform are bought and paid for by the fossil lobby Who Don't want us to have cheap renewable energy and energy independence It Breaks their business model
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  724. 2 million live in poverty and 4 out of 10 reaching pension age will be joining them.
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  725. There bleeding too many votes to the centre by pandering to the nutters, Reform aren't Conservative in any shape or form
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  726. It will be as late as he can get away with The Tories have broken the economy because Thatcherism Sunak is doing more Thatcherism our Tax is going up he's cutting squat current 20% threshold = 12250 if it had gone up with inflation it would be 14350 that is the NI threshold as well NI cuts don't help pensioners many are on low incomes and are getting swept into the tax system because of the rate freeze
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  727. Because Brexit was always a lie its depressed the economy by 6% Immigration has gone up because more dependants now FOM has gone Thatcherism hit the rocks with sewage in rivers, triple energy bills, collapse of local councils whose housing stock has been stripped with rents through the roof The average person now has less disposable income than 2006 so threatening people with going back to square one won't work were already at square -4
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  728. So we have a housing crisis coz Thatcher sold off council houses on the cheap and didn't replace them An energy crisis part down to a dash for gas but also down to having utilities privatised Water companies that haven't invested in the victorian pipes that was the whole reason for privatisation but have debt loaded to the tune of 50 billion while paying out 57 billion in dividends and if the interest rates go up they may well go bankrupt. So Truss wants to cosplay Thatcher and Sunak claims to be Thatcher incarnate are the going to completely crush all manufacturing and have 13% unemployment just for old times sake?
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  729.  @janicebirch7522  why do Tories leap to whataboutisms? It really wastes a shed load of thought on nothing
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  730.  @stefmanbrett91  Did you read the SNP motion? It contained language that neither Labour Nor the Cons could sign up to and was presented at the last possible minute "collective punishment " is a legal term under the Geneva convention its no wonder it got superseded it needs deliberating via a court. Starmer is a Human rights Lawyer You should be happy a call for a ceasefire who's language didn't break international protocol was passed unanimously?
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  731. @unguhbungah Libertarianism descends very quickly into monopolies and and 95% of the people in economic slavery while the 5% are fabulously wealthy at which point you get a dictator who the libertarian elite support out of sheer greed
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  732. Welcome to the next leader of the Conservative party her mantra of Cruel Britannia and hate fueled toxic politics The UKIP ification of the Tories is complete
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  733. He created an unholy coalition that was fragile at best of English Nationalists (Red Wall) and the Brexit Ultra's absorbing the dregs of UKIP and taking the Blue wall for granted. He lied to all parties in the coalition keeping its head just above water, people forget before his demise there was a long string of by election failure where the Blue wall was being eaten by the Lib-Dems
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  734. The exemption from iht has created the problem in the 1st place. Anywhere you create a tax loophole the rich flood in to abuse it
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  735. That's crazy talk about the gold standard. Every major economy printed money during the pandemic that's why we have inflatiion The IMF have said everyone needs a wealth tax to rebalance but government ignores it.
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  736. A health service pay rise will have an economic multiplier of a minimum of around 0.8 and if the pay rise enables less recruitment and fewer days spent on agency staff + higher patient throughput that value can be > 1 Anything over 1 pays for itself 0.8 costs the treasury 20p in the pound The 1st thing that happens with any pay rise is the government take their slice back for a graduate that's near on 50% these days  @MCDONALD6969 
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  737. Conservatives have always been about the wealthy Thatcher used Oil Money Asset stripping and bribing people with government owned housing to get votes what have the current bunch done beside line their own pockets
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  738. Us pensioners are home most of the time, my house is well insulated but that doesn't apply to the majority @johnpatrick1702 
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  739. The Conservatives have inflated the property market by pumping billions into right to buy to the point anyone on low medium income it is now the only way of ever owning your own home. Cameron pumped billions into the scheme and since 2010 house prices have risen by 66% while real wages average have fallen by -7%
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  740. So lets get one thing straight you CAN have lower immigration BUT you needto invest in social and physical infrastructure for your domestic population THAT means higher taxes You cant run lower immigration in a Thatcherite model its a highly state control model
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  741. Immigration has gone up because we removed FOM and illegal has gone up because we left the EU experts said it would and was labelled as project fear
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  742. For whatever reason a complete trolly of a PM that would fk anything and has is somehow virtuous. Johnson has real mental issues with self esteem and anxiety his relentless pursuit of women, the constant cheating and lying to his current partner
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  743. What solutions? This was a dead cat thrown out to save big dog and cause a distraction it was never meant to go anywhere, it's a complete waste of money time and effort.
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  744. George is a poundland Farage populist
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  745. Its just a temporary problem? No it isn't Brexit was hauled over the line by Racism and Xenophobia and is one of the core tenants of this extreme right wing government. Lets stop trying to normalise what a complete bunch of xenophobic liers are now in power. Between 1.5 and 2 million people left the UK due to Brexit over the last few years, as well as low paid seasonal workers we've also had a Brain Drain as companies have relocated part or all of certain operations into Europe. Just push through more tests? According to this guy the average age of the UK HGV driver is 57 at what point are you going to be able to even recruit test and train enough to replace the thousands that are leaving the industry monthly due to retirement and ill health? Replace with GB workers? The current rate of deaths in GB is now higher than the current rate of births we now have both an aging and a shrinking population, more people retired less people available to pay Tax. This isn't going to end well and this appears to be the tip of the storm 8 months in with suppressed demand due to the pandemic.
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  746. The Cons put in an amendment purely to Block the Labour one the SNP new what was going to happen it was just a wasted a day of political sh1tsturing
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  747. ​ @hbt739 yougov have done polling on Reform only 1/3 Rd of thier vote would go to the Cons, the rest is split all over the shop The Tories have taken on ukip policies and look where its lead them
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  748. There full you need another line to move intercity traffic onto its own dedicated line to expand local services and freight
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  749. High speed rail to nowhere
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  750. Labour don't need to raise taxes the Tories have done it for them tax basis in 2019 was 32% 2022 its 33% by 2027 it will be 38%
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  751. Change planning to permissive and allow councils to buy land and change usage, Councils and Private sector build an estate with % social housing, prices are fixed by the council. You then have lower priced housing + social housing Where I live 50% of the house price is the land and 20% is the profit
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  752. Pension funds saw their valuations plunge by nearly a quarter in 2022, partly due to the bond market turmoil that followed Liz Truss’s mini budget, new research suggests. According to a new report from the Pensions Regulator, the value of assets held by pension funds fell by around £425bn over 2022, equivalent to a 24 per cent fall in the overall value of scheme assets
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  753. If we don't fund Ukraine Putin has a stranglehold on world grain supplies and we'd have to increase our defence budget to 3 even 4%
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  754. It isn't a group of 5 60+ white men stuck in the past. Labour benches average age is 42 The 23% held together on fear and a core voter base 65+ We have had 8 years of chaos in 2029 voting Right will just be to go back to that Chaos
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  755.  @akal8775  in what reality? They had socialist sent to the camps tattooed and processed then disposed of
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  756.  @chrisj9700  The issue with the tax system isn't tax on income its tax on wealth generated from wealth. Ex Sunak paid 22p on the £ on 4 million in income for which he did nothing but sit back and watch his portfolio go up
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  757. think its an admission of failure and trying to shore up a few blue wall seats last week saw their poll numbers dip to 23% and Labour up 3 to 47%  @Bolachas25 
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  758.  @hughjohns9110  so why did we leave the common market remove freedom of movement and put economic sanctions on ourselves to become the North. Korea of Europe? No one voted for economic suicide?
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  759. ​ @infosuge Thatcherism needs immigration without it you'd get economic implosion If your prepared to move to a more socially managed economy you can reduce immigration that means higher taxes especially on wealth you'll hear squat from the media on the real cause of high legal migration
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  760.  @sadjaxx  The PO is the result of a culture of outsourcing. When you outsource you loose control and over time the service levels degrade, for services this makes no economic sense but is a tenant of Thatcherism
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  761. ​ @gawkthimm6030 were not going full in best we would ever get is single market and that would be at a price. FOM and Shengan would reduce legal migration if the government wanted it to, we always had the means to control it we just didn't do it.
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  762.  @williamhurley8407  One of the problems caused by money printing is Asset inflation the only way to get rid of it is tax rich people to get the excess out of the system Energy is a lot of Supply side inflation (corporate) oil and gas companies are making super profits a lot of energy demand is baked in raising interest rates will leverage demand but is unlikely to reduce it by much. Food is Supply Side but we have Brexit as a force multiplier
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  763. there are 4.3 million in poverty this is just gesture politics which would cost 3 billion and deal with only 250k at a cost of 12k per head
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  764. ​@pun-inator6075 I don't disagree with we need immigration but the Tories use it to prop up a low wage economy and are using it to level down the middle class.
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  765. The reason Reform numbers rose was the Rwanda scheme, the reason the Cons lost traction from the centre was the Rwanda scheme Karma all round Its not hard disliking Sunak after he spent the debate throwing Johnsonian levels of bullsh1t everywhere The Spectator calculated Tory spending commitments would add 3k per household Sky calculated Tory tax rises have cost 13k per household already
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  766. Johnson was indebted to a Foreign businessman to the tune of 800,000? Security risk? Compramat? He also used to go to Ledvedev's Castle for a the Parties cough
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  767. with extreme heat comes climate disaster in the form of ruined crops therefore food shortages glad your OK with spiralling food prices stop listening to the propaganda and use some critical thinking this is about money and power renewable energy has been cheaper than the alternatives since 2019 the current energy crisis is siphoning 170 billion in excess profits out of our pockets to the energy companies aided and helped by the UK government
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  768.  @zeuseditor  The language used by the SNP was designed to make sure the motion failed. Playing politics with such a sensitive subject shame on you and your Party
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  769. Were in a Rhisi-cetion Anyone thinking reform are the answer are deluded
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  770.  @NoOne-le2jv  China makes stuff to CE mark and the US accepts it Brexit was pointless its just putting sanctions on ourselves
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  771. ​ @Batters56 the economic multiplier for renewable projects is between 1.1 and 1.5 so a 20 billion investment creates enough GDP to increase tax take beyond what the government invest. In reverse fossil subsidies have an economic multiplier of between 0.5 and 0.6 having an increase in GDP below the cost of the subsidy.
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  772. ​ @chatham43 renewables are cheaper than fossil by a country mile we don't have more because of lack of investment especially in the Grid
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  773. The guy is a joke, It's 3 clowns and your out time His big achievement will be a high speed train that doesn't go to London and doesn't go to Birmingham
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  774.  @Ed-rg4do  46 presidents before her haven't bore any children
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  775. Johnson lies all the time and he's corrupted the whole of his cabinet and now media apologists to do the same for him Why throw your dignity under a bus defending these people, from £30 pound rolls of wallpaper to non dom spouses, from VIP crony contracts to writing off billions in fraud these are some of the unworthiness bunch of liars to hold high office in UK history.
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  776. Starmers a lawyer we were all given the government's pdf on conducting a safe election the food and drink is irrelevant it was classed as a work based event they were phone banking Johnson's parties were conducted in tier 2 lockdown and the 1 he got done for had a load of non work freinds attending
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  777. There 20% in the polls if they lost the bigot vote as well theyd be down to 13-5 with zero MPs They cant run on the economy which they've trashed and turned into low wage, services are falling apart and 1/2 the councils are going bankrupt including Conservative run ones
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  778. ​ @aion5837 I have 2 degrees one in economics why would anyone believe a word Farage or Johnson said Brexit was always going to increase net migration under Tory economic policy and badly damage our economy, Johnson solution is about as bad as you could get bar no deal. We're now in a no growth shrinking gdp per capita debt spiral
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  779.  @mattg5878  Labour couldn't get elected before they shifted to what was called the post Thatcher/Reagan NeoLiberal consensus. It was used to control the huge inflation and unemployment of the 70's
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  780. The US is a federal system of 50 states each has it's own economy The most deprived states in the US are run by Republicans so no there in for a bit of a crash
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  781. There committed to some form of renewable policy and taxing the polluters
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  782. Why is it the BOE's fault that we have runaway inflation caused by Conservative energy policies which did a dash for gas and Brexit which put economic sanctions on every Importer/Exporter from the EU which is vastly increasing the cost of food. Not only that UK farmers are producing less because they can't get seasonal workers We also have excruciating personal taxation at the bottom and one of the lowest rates for corporation Tax and Upper wealth band tax in the G7 If you don't want to cure inflation with interest rates then put the Upper band and corporation tax up till it hurts the fkrs badly enough if brings down inflation
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  783. He's just the least worst option
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  784. He's following the US lead If he is elected he will have to deal with Israel who are a strategic western ally Hamas are a terrorist group and after what they did a ceasefire would be unacceptable to the Israel people Geopolitics is messy
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  785. Matt Hancock couldn't Dodge a granny with a zimmer frame he's that slow. Only the most incompetent for Boris's cabinet.
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  786. and your not going to do alternate investment planning in the interim? If I get to 75 then ill count myself lucky @silversurfer6758 
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  787. In what way any vote by us is just virtue signalling it has zero effect What would help is if we took Palestinian refugees but that is politically toxic
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  788. You had less migration when we had FOM, my brother lives in Norway the labour market is highly regulated they have a centre left managed economy and near zero net migration Put the pieces together
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  789. @Shaun-ju4gn Norway invested thier oil money in a sovereign wealth fund which they used during the gas and oil crisis to peg fuel costs resulting in 3% inflation The current mess is 50 years of Thatcherism, New Labour may have been miles better but they never fixed the long term issues caused by privatisation and asset stripping
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  790. Sunak has Uturned +23 times on tax alone the economy is sinking and the Tories are unable to get out of there Thatcherite mindset to stop it
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  791. so only 100 billion in uncosted tax giveaways The banks deposit 480 billion with the BOE there is some talk among economists that given it's money generated by QE were subsidising the banks by paying interest on it but it's a major policy shift and 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.
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  792. He doesn't have a choice were stuck with the TCA for the next few years and if Truss or Mordaunt is elected we won't even have that there all in for blowing up the Protocol to get the EU to nullify the TCA
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  793.  @The_Phoenix_Saga  They all accept freebies this isn't a Labour thing and Starmer's 24k averaged a year isn't particularly noteworthy given he is leader of the opposition and would be wined and dined by various groups. You could try ban it then transparency goes as it goes under the table and The biggest transgressors were the likes of Farage and Boris, Nige gets over 1 million a year from an offshore billionaire and Boris was hand out central he didn't pay for anything
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  794. this is an article from 2023 Aug More than 100 MPs have enjoyed free hospitality to concerts and sporting events worth more than £180,000 this summer, with tickets given away by banks, oil companies, the gambling industry and media firms. The chancellor, Jeremy Hunt, the deputy prime minister, Oliver Dowden, and the Labour leader, Keir Starmer, are among those who have benefited from a growing trend for politicians accepting giveaways. If we want to change the system then we need to lobby for it and They all accept freebies this isn't a Labour thing and Starmer's 24k averaged a year isn't particularly noteworthy given he is leader of the opposition and would be wined and dined by various groups. You could try ban it then transparency goes as it goes under the table also The biggest transgressors were the likes of Farage and Boris, Nige gets over 1 million a year from an offshore billionaire and Boris was hand out central he didn't pay for anything.
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  795. If you dig into what Starmer has been saying he's obviously read and been influenced by this book Mariana Mazzucato, Mission Economy: A Moonshot Guide to Changing Capitalism Hopefully he's read her latest book as well The Big Con: How the Consulting Industry Weakens our Businesses, Infantilizes our Governments and Warps our Economies Tories don't read books on economics
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  796. That ship has sailed we are where we are and the Cons will have shat in the pool multiple times to try destroy any going back
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  797. You not seen her CV?
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  798. I looked at electoral calculus it doesn't even take into account Tactical voting they are in deep doo doo
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  799. Roll on Roll off takes 20 seconds per vehicle as a 3rd country we need passports stamping checking and there not even asking if you have a return ticket It now takes on average 1:30 minutes per vehicle that's over 4 times as long so you need 20+ booths minimum
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  800. If you want to know what's up with the economy go listen to Gary Stephenson from GarysEconomics
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  801. @CIMALord  quote from Bloomberg UK gas producers and electricity generators may make excess profits totaling as much as £170 billion ($199 billion) over the next two years EndQuote Quote North Sea oil and gas industry offered ‘get-out’ clause on windfall tax Jeremy Hunt hopes suspending energy profits levy if Brent crude falls below $71.40 a barrel will aid investment EndQuote The cheapest form of energy on the grid by miles is Wind yet appantly were levying a windfall tax on those suppliers because the price is set on the cost gas you couldn't get a more broken fked up market
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  802. The IHT on farms is to stop people like DYSON buying up farms and driving up prices to avoid IHT Family farms have a limit of 3 million quote The updated relief can in fact be even more generous for true family farms than the £1m headline. A married couple owning a farm together can split it in two, meaning it qualifies for £2m of agricultural property relief, plus another £500,000 for each partner if a property is involved. That means a farm worth £3m might pay zero inheritance tax, said Arun Advani, associate professor of economics at the University of Warwick and a director of CenTax.
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  803. No they won't Abbot was a liability to the majority of voters in the centre, the last thing Labour needed was an Abbot Gaffe mid campaign. She was a PR disaster as a shadow cabinet member
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  804.  @susannahhunt100  what do they want now Labour have already called for a ceasefire and a 2 state solution? and it looks like Diane is going a bit loco
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  805.  @AndrewWilliams-ry6tb  The lib dems won more seats because they had more people on the ground canvasing for them and they are known to be able to run stuff through being in power at council level. Reform are a gobsh1te mouthing off about migration and selling snake oil the level of dumb to vote for that is evenly spread
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  806.  @oneoflokis  It's a non competitive seat and will vote Labour no matter what, given her gaffe ridden career its no surprise that Mr Ruthless cut his losses so he didn't get an Abbot special mid campaign.
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  807.  @ItsDeffoScott  The SNP motion was kept back and presented last minute and has problematic language in it. Labour's motion was legally watertight with international Law "collective punishment " is a legal term under the Geneva convention its no wonder it got superseded it needs deliberating via a court. Aren't you glad a legal call or a ceasefire that also highlighted settler expansion passed?
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  808. Boris is always saying world beating but the only world beating industry we have is money laundering with its tentacles all over the Tories and the current cabinet Oh And Pritti Patel's world beating lack of empathy And Johnson's world beating incompetence, if Russian Oligarchs give you money its for a reason you blonde muppet
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  809. The ft 250 is up 1.18% on the news people are expecting an easier trading environment for small businesses not the ongoing chaos of Tory rule
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  810. The motion is political posturing why even go there Isreal isn't going to listen All parties have supported a 2 state solution for decades yet there's continued expansion by settlers
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  811.  @safariyamaishayetu4144  whatever stance he takes will have zero effect And We will follow the US lead as they have at least some sway
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  812. The point is the indignation by the client media, all MP's accept freebies, the level that Labour MP's have done it is no different to Tories. and The worst sort of bribery is things like Farage getting over 1 million a year from an offshore billionaire
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  813. Great looking forward to some true leadership instead of Wishy Washy
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  814. They've never been Tory Lite Blair transformed the low wage economy Quote from 2008 by an LSE report The National Minimum Wage is one of the most significant labour market interventions that the Labour government has made, raising the pay of well over one million low paid workers by about 15% overnight at the point of introduction. • Since 1999, the minimum wage has been increased by 30% after adjusting for increases in the retail price index, well above the increase in average earnings over this period. Get rid of the 13 years of Tory media brainwashing
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