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

  1. 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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  2. Brexit is a force multiplier not the cause think of it like this (Austerity + Thatcherism) × Brexit = Stagnation
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  3. 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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  4. 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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  5.  @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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  6. don't you get tired of pedalling that trash?
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  7. 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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  8. 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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  9. 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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  10. 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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  11. 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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  12. He wasn't sacked for being on the picket and line
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  13. 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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  14.  @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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  15. 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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  16. @markwelch3564  since when do estate agents or solicitors give tax advice for one its illegal ?
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  17. 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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  18. the vote share for Centre Left parties has stayed fairly constant for months at 58%
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  19. 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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  20.  @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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  21.  @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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  22. 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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  23. He's an Independent now
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  24. ​ @alanwatterson2850 suppressed the vote though. Also date was chosen to corral the student vote in University towns
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  25. 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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  26.  @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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  27.  @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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  28. 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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  29. Why be a Tory apologist?
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  30. 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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  31. I think even he has given up on the Tories
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  32.  @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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  33. 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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  34. And they would loose support from the centre which greatly reduces there appeal in 100's of seats
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  35. 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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  36. PAYE is fine you need to look at a property tax
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  37. @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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  38. 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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  39. 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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  40. 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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  41. It's been ongoing since 2016 and meeting the standards isn't hard
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  42.  @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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  43. 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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  44. Population in general don't have a view on Israel Palastine
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  45. Each year the US disaster relief budget goes up way more than inflation
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  46. A moderate Tory?
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  47. He's definitely in the pocket of the fossil lobby and the billionaire class through Policy Exchange and the IEA
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  48. Lower than a snakes belly ! love it
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  49. 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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  50. 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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