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

  1. ​ @aleph8888 if it smells like a tax walks like a tax It's a Tax
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  2.  @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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  3. 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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  4. 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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  5. 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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  6. 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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  7. 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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  8.  @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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  9.  @FishingFan2  Your forgetting tactical voting
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  10. 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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  11. 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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  12. They all are
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  13. ​ @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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  14. Labour support a 2 state solution and a ceasefire what else do you want?
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  15. 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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  16.  @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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  17. 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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  18.  @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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  19. Fascism relies on the removal of critical thinking, I re read Animal Farm recently the current path is scary
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  20. 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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  21. 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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  22. 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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  23. 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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  24. 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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  25. 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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  26. ​ @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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  27.  @haraldschuster3067  :) Sad but true
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  28. 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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  29.  @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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  30.  @ce017  He's living in a different reality to what is on the ground in 2022
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  31. 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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  32. 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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  33. 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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  34. 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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  35.  @markwelch3564  Why would someone on PAYE think they needed to get involved with a tax accountant
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  36. Your getting fiscal drag with 20% rates frozen till 2028 currently its 12250 it should be 15000
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  37. 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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  38. 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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  39. You can get an EU VISA for a whole range of Jobs
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  40. England Football team are more consistent
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  41.  @goot-if4km  what's that got to do withh the near 1 trillion lost to the economy since 2016?
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  42. 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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  43.  @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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  44. 2 times fk all is still fk all
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  45. 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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  46.  @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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  47. JC was the worst you've had saw the bleed away of older working class voters away from Labour
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  48.  @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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  49. not bad I'd put it on the list
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  50. 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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