Comments by "Greg Greg" (@SlowhandGreg) on ""He Was FLUMMOXED!" | Political Expert Analyses Rishi Sunak And Keir Starmer Election Debate" video.

Your only going to pay tax on pensions because Sunak Froze the 20% threshold till 2028 So far that has cost me a pensioner £560 this tax year Under the last labour government vat went down which greatly helps people on low income
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@Iazzaboyce the reason people at the moment can't buy a house is stagnant wages since 2010 while housing has gone up above inflation the difference in average price to wages is +80k Blair period saw 25% wage growth
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@Iazzaboyce Brown Lowered VAT to boost the economy which was starting to work Osborne's 5% hike put us back to zero and negative growth
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@Iazzaboyce I don't get your point no one has built enough houses since the post war period our planning system is archaic and the market and councils have been screwed over by right to buy and billions pumped into it
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@giffgaffnettwork5626 What you fail to understand is the tax threshold was frozen by Sunak till 2028 and Labour will reduce taxes at the bottom end Energy will get cheaper the more renweables are on the grid
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@giffgaffnettwork5626 When Cameron came in he raised the pension age this at a stroke cost my family £11,000 my wife is near retirement in the next 5 years Sunak will pay for any giveaway by raising the retirement age to 67 this will again at a stroke cost my family an additional £12,000. After promising not to raise taxes in 2019 I'm paying +£550 because of fiscal drag. In 2015 I bought a campervan direct from Germany at a 30% discount to the UK price to replace it now would equate to a +50% premium because our currency is -30% of what it was and you can no longer buy direct. My holidays cost +30% more because of these Tory bafoons. They are completely toxic to my and every other middle and working class person in this country's bank balance.
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@giffgaffnettwork5626 I worked for an energy producer for 20 years during privatisation. If you change the grid to renewable you have to flatten the duck curve. Something not possible when I worked there but is now possible due to technical advances both in mass storage and time shifting. The effect of this can be seen in power systems in places such as California and Norway. As the curve flattens and fattens then energy becomes cheaper, the theoretical max drop in prices is around 25% of current cost. The biggest beneficiaries of the Tech will be EV's on domestic overnight charge who will get near free electric if they enable V2G tech allowing the EV battery to be used for grid smoothing at peak time.
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Tory mps got ripped to shreds in the spin room post debate for lying about the 2k being costed by the Treasury, it was done under information and under the supervision of political SPAD's
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