Comments by "Greg Greg" (@SlowhandGreg) on "“People Really Want Change!” Ben Habib Reflects On Reform UK’s Best Ever By-Election Results" video.

what takes your fancy the Lettuce Liz economic policies or perhaps the fracking maybe the NHS privatisation?
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@hklovejoy My son has a boatload of qualifications and 4 years experience he's on +50p above minimum. I'm sick to the back teeth of Tory Austerity + trickle down which is driving a low wage economy. 14 years on Sunak and Hunt telling people not to have pay rises because its inflationary while average wages are -7% lower than in 2010. By the way migration is symptom of those policies not the cause. Wouldn't surprise me if the Tories didn't try outsource Defence they've done it to everything else.
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@Nora......... you can't lower immigration without training your domestic workforce and increasing productivity, that requires investment not tax cuts. Tax cuts need paying for as Liz found our.
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@SpudsF42 My dad was polish came here after the war when he was demobbed after fighting fascism in Europe is that any good?
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so how will they pay for tax cuts oh crash the gilt market and bankrupt the pension system sorry been there not interested
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@areyoustupid..... You do realise a privatised system would cost the government and the tax payer more? You'd still have to provide free medical for pensioners and families on in work benefits as well as those on long term sick and below the poverty line. By the time you've finished the bill wouldn't be much different to a state run universal system which currently covers everyone.
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@lahtal1 very happy
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@Nora......... You know they could never raise the threshold don't you? There economic plan needs growth and you get growth through investment in social and physical infrastructure which needs MONEY. We are 2.3 trillion in debt and borrowing 130 billion a year Also If you want to get migration down you need to invest in social infrastructure training to your own so your not bussing in migrant nurses from the 3rd world. That means paying them properly and making tthe training FREE So call me cynical for not believing a word that bell end Elite Tice says
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@Nora......... we're 2.3 trillion in debt borrowing 130 billion last year Biden has invested 2 trillion in the US economy and they have +3% growth there gdp per capita has risen from 62k to 74k in 2010 it was 50k same as the uk our current gdp per capita is 45k. Tice and Co can't grow the economy by cutting taxes and neither can the Cons you grow the economy and lower taxation and immigration over time by investment.
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@Eurobrasil550 we stopped training Nurses for free, we now fly in plane loads of Nurses from the 3rd world
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@Tzhz any private system would cost double the current cost and wouldn't reduce government budgets as the elderly and children would be paid for by the state. Privatisation does the following Privatised the Profits, Socialised the losses Look at water/ energy?
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@Tzhz We don't own any of our natural resources so no Fracking won't give us energy stability. It's controversial because it uses over 100 million gallons of water per site, blights the landscape around it and any leakage into the water table will poison the water for a large conurbation such as Manchester. It's also not cost effective the sites need moving on every 2 years with associated build and its estimated the price would have to be x3 the cost it was in 2019 to break even.
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@robertlestylo6085 it's in there manifesto further use of private health care = privatisation Tthe singularity biggest problem with UK government services is the insane amount of money going out to outsourcing. Huge chunks of budgets go on needless paperwork managing it
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Yes we want change not anther version of Blue thank you Ben so go away
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@cathywilson3146 You've had 14 years of Thatcherism why would you want another 5 in a different shade what do you think is causing this economic doom loop?
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@YakovShani Lettuce Liz economics just what we don't need
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they why vote for a cheap knock off when the original has completely failed?
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we want change not another version of blue with yet more unfunded tax cut promises that will crash the markets
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