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

  1. 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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  2.  @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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  3. 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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  4. 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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  5. It's called a Rhisi-session
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  6.  @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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  7.  @chatham43  Average wages falling by -7% since 2010
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  8.  @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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  9.  @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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  10. 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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  11. ​ @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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  12. 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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  13. He wasn't sacked for being on the picket line
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  14.  @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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  15.  @banky4943  It has already the Tory government Chaos has stopped
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  16. 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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  17. 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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  18. ​ @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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  19. ​ @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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  20. Its only if your in the EURO zone
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  21. 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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  22. 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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  23. 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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  24.  @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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  25.  @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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  26. 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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  27. Still doesn't validate stealing stuff
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  28.  @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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  29. @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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  30. Make it April the 1st
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  31. 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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  32. 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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  33. 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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  34.  @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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  35. 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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  36. 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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  37. 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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  38. 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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  39. @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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  40. ​ @jjefferyworboys8138 do you understand what socialism even is? Without a socially funded army we would be defenceless
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  41.  @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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  42.  @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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  43. Totally agree there's a paper on it somewhere fleshing out a complete policy
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  44. 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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  45. 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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  46. ​@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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  47. 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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  48. 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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  49. 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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  50. Guess we'll have to call him Blojo from now on Wonder if it's on security cam
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