Comments by "Greg Greg" (@SlowhandGreg) on "Jeremy Corbyn and Tory minister debate economic policy | LBC" video.

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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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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@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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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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@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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@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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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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@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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