Comments by "Greg Greg" (@SlowhandGreg) on "Sky News" channel.

  1. z Rabinovich calls Odessa: "Aaron, what's going on there?" "Russia is at war with NATO here." "Any losses?" "Yeah, Russia has lost a war cruiser, hundreds of planes and helicopters, over a thousand tanks, a pile of weapons, about twenty-five thousand soldiers ..." "And NATO?" "NATO has not yet arrived.
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  2. If they want a better standard of living why do they vote Conservative? Cameron / May now Johnson national average wage has increased by -3% a feat not achieved since the Napoleonic war and we are in our second decade of stagnation under the Conservatives The highest tax burden since the war (and Rhishi gave the bankers a 5% tax cut worth billions) The worst trade deal in British history (City AM QUOTE "One in three UK business owners fear their company won’t exist anymore in a year as Brexit onslaught intensifies")
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  3. Instead of a NI hike they could have removed the payment ceiling which would have raised more money He could abandon the 2 billion tax cut to the Bankers He could slap a windfall tax on the fossil companies He could have kept his parties promise on the triple lock Did he do any of these did he fk
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  4. Nearly everyone that's been in the news this last couple of weeks has had a pay freeze over the pandemic Your also seeing inflation busting executive pay and bonuses because over 50% of the inflation can be attributed to massive increases in corporate profits
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  5. Why doesn't he blame the EU and the asylum seekers in Calais while he's at it.
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  6. Markets and polls expecting a Labour win for months and Kier is just lucky Things will improve though because the Tory chaos has stopped and we're looking a good stable investment with all the political turmoil in France / Germany
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  7. we shall fight them on the beaches and in the ITV studios He flew back to lie about lying in the TV debate - sums him and his party up really My dad was a paratrooper in the war Tuesday left me angry because all he did was gaslight and deliberately mislead the public in Johnsonian fashion but this just left me feeling hollow
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  8. I thought the party that has had an 80 seat majority and done fk all with it bar raising tax to record levels had a super majority
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  9. Cutting tax doesnt boost growth We have 50 years of data showing that the bulk of these cuts drives inequality people at the bottom get screwed especially on low income Currently since 2010 average wages are -6.1% complete economic stagnation with reduced incomes how have the millionaire class fared ? In 2022, total millionaire wealth stood at $208.3 trillion, accounting for 45.8% of global wealth. That represents a 138% increase from 2011, when millionaires held $87.5 trillion in wealth
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  10. Days into the Sunak premiership and where back to square 1 defending the indefensible that didn't take long
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  11. What did she get wrong? A bigger bunch of liars that currently sit in the cabinet you'd be hard pressed to find including the chief BS merchant in charge
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  12. This is the week it emerged that the Cabinet were lobbying for City pay caps to be removed and the Chairman of Birmingham Airport had a 48% salary rise Boris's broken Britain World beating Stagflation
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  13. ​ @davidyare8465 that's good coz it will stop the brain drain due to low pay
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  14. meanwhile were loosing millions in lost duty
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  15. Everything Johnson touches turns to sht Did he not tell the north that he's taken the word UP out of the promise
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  16.  @PAUL-wv6vu  2010 GDP to debt was 62% due to the Cameron Tax cuts 2019 GDP to debt was 82%, so don't talk to me about borrowing at least labour spent it on something other than lining the pockets of their rich mates 2022 GDP to debt 100%+ CAN WE AFFORD THE TORIES?
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  17. its 450 kilometers and there's an air defence ring around moscow and like he says why waste the ammo there are more imprtant targets than flying into air defense central
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  18. He wasn't speaking to parliament or trying to win a debate he was speaking to the people in those constituencies Whatever wide boy Sunak responds with is now irrelevant because people just won't believe him food inflation is still 15%
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  19.  @andro396  The EU and US will impose sanctions if we screw up the peace process, a de facto border will have to go round NI if this isn't re-implemented going against the peace process Like everyone says the DUP are insane
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  20. The defeat was down to spending 14 years driving our economy into the toilet, Austerity, Brexit, tax increases, more Austerity, 50 years of privatisation hitting the fan The Tories are done Rest In Pieces
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  21. voted tactically all my life there's nothing worse or the country and my and my families finances than a TORY government
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  22. Whatever he'd still be a 100 times better than any Tory
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  23.  @JamesMullarneyIsAFraud  in what way? Blair / Brown +25% rise in average wages Cameron / May / Johnson -8% decrease in average wages Thatcherism screws over workers discuss
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  24. why are they clapping this complete failure of a human being?
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  25. Gets off for lying last week comes out and lies about the protocol this week and he's done it in Parliament as well
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  26. Choice 1 Regulatory alignment no border Choice 2 Non alignment hard border if Choice 2 Border down the Irish sea or hard Border in NI (Not happening due to Good Friday agreement) There is no choice 3 or maybe a tech solution or maybe we didn't know what we were signing, while I think Jonson's cabinet are a talentless even they can work out the above. For whatever reason Johnson wanted a no deal.
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  27. Sunak locked thresholds till 2028 I'm around 560 worse off with fiscal drag giving me 95 back is taking the p1ss
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  28. Zehawai- tax dodging Sunak - wife's used non dom status to avoid tax Javid - used non dom status to avoid tax Last 3 Chancellor's Is it now a required badge to serve in the second highest office in government? What's Jermy Hunt done? That didn't age well just looked him up and in 2019 he was reminded of dodgy stuff Quote Reporters  reminded him of the time he broke company laws aimed at preventing money laundering and tax evasion.
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  29. Curing a problem they created in the 1st place Bit like rewarding an Arsonist who puts out a fire he started
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  30. Couple of years back we started a major refurbishment and extension to our 1935 property and I had quite a Net Zero journey with it the additional cost for these over standard building was around 10-15% Solar Thermal tied to a large new type hot water tank provides 75% of hot water of your energy bill about 20% is spent on water heating. Double insulation using a product called SuperQuilt and all the floors had insulation + Floorquilt heating went off in April didn't come back on till end of November Underfloor heating runs at low temperatures uses around 40% less energy than a radiator system would especially given the main extension has a vaulted ceiling Replacement windows all with the latest glass technology All the stuff I've listed should be in new builds the Regs are still C+ standard
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  31. This was from Simon Case the same person that blocked her promotion because of the partygate report The story of Gray’s appointment began with Sunak’s reshuffle in February, where Kemi Badenoch increased her international trade portfolio to include business. As a result, she requested Gray to be her department’s Permanent Secretary. This role is the most senior civil servant of a given department or ministry. However, according to the Daily Express, it appears Cabinet Secretary Simon Case vetoed Gray’s candidacy on a technicality because she was “not of the right grade to be promoted to permanent secretary”. The impact of this was devastating for Gray.
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  32.  @gsuzuki6138  'When a clown moves into a palace, he doesn't become a king. The palace becomes a circus.'
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  33. Such as the UK chancellor using tax loopholes to benefit his families finances? Or setting favourable tax policies that protect unearned income from increases?
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  34. the Tories have abandoned any meaningful renewable strategy. For the record there's around a 100 billion in fossil subsidies in various budgets. Renewables are 2.5 times cheaper than its nearest rival nuclear The UK energy sector will make 170 billion in excess UNTAXED profits over 2 years And The Tories are getting donations from the fossil companies
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  35. Rhishi froze them till 2028 then burnt 20 billion in an unfunded NI cut. Labour are backed into a corner on not raising employees NI and tax
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  36. 80% on benefit are working poor, the numbers of those not working at all are really small (50,000) we have a system where people on benefit are trapped on minimum wage unable to get out of the poverty trap. What is currently being done in your name is the spread of a low wage economy trapping people into economic slavery working but barely able to survive.
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  37.  @indianrider9099  the media is owned by the billionaire class there not going to promote labour get of your lazy backside and find out what labour proposals are instead of carping
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  38. Because there not allowed to spread lies and conspiracy theories dressed up as news
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  39. Where also processing less than 20,000 cases per year and numbers in the system went from 10,000 in 2010 to 80,000 in 2022 with 80% granted asylum there not allowed to work till their cases are resolved creating a huge fiscal drag for political reasons. Rwanda is just Kabuki theatre and a complete waste of money
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  40. They downed 2 Russian special forces troop planes yesterday killing 400 soldiers total the losses are mounting attack / defend stats tend to favour the defender, when clearing a city even more so. Remember Kiev is the size of Chicago if the defenders won't surrender then it could drag on the only way then is for artillery to level it.
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  41. we won't need one at this rate there dropping like rancid flies
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  42. Boris is highlighting the complete inability of Tories to run an economy this goes back to 2010 and is the culmination of 12 years of bad economic policies.
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  43. RMT workers average 30k there are multiple executives across the rail industry earning over 1 million all subsidised by the tax payer
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  44.  @dsutherlarach  Why is the government subsidising million pound salaries and bonuses without batting an eyelid but when lower paid workers want a raise its all there not worthy times are tough we need to tighten our belts. Maybe a review of executive pay and a hefty % reduction till the top people only earn 20x the bottom
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  45. Im a pensioner on low income due to fiscal drag my effctive tax rate has gone from 20% to 33% He's talking complete BS
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  46. Yea well he's pushing his luck stealing nuclear secrets then waving them at Rando guests behaving like an 11 year old
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  47. everyone needs processing so what's your point we keep this facade of pretending we can ship them off somewhere while burning through 8 billion a year on soapbox rhetoric?
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  48. he doesn't but at least he has a degree in economics and there will be an economy left in 2 years
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  49. The SNP wanted a vote on a ceasefire they got one and it was passed unanimously why isn't he happy?
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  50. ​​ @markohenry5891  debt to gdp was 62% in 2010 after 9 years of Austerity and Cameron's corporate tax giveaways it was 92% with near zero growth and an average fall in real average wages of 3% The worst decade economically since the Napolionic wars
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  51. Your CGT allowance is 3k and are your shares in an isa if not why not? Because anything in an isa is tax free and will remain so
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  52. Its Per annum but whatever Fastest vaccine rollout = median Fastest was Portugal and they got the doses at a fraction of the cost through the EU plus their PPE through a joint purchase scheme while we instituted no bid contracts for Tory Donors for unusable PPE product
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  53. The major problem for Russia was Ukraine turning towards the EU greater trade and movement improves people's standard of living, many workers from Ukraine were working in Poland they can see what EU membership has done for that country.
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  54. the energy crisis started last year they could have done something to increase onshore wind insulation and modernisation of old boilers plus an energy saving campaign
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  55. tax is going up whoever gets in Labour won't increase PAYE even on the 100k bracket because there th e spenders in the economy They will tax wealth created from wealth as assets move around the economy
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  56. She can't grow the economy by doing what she's doing First no windfall tax Second all the Utility companies will get subsidised even Octopus who buy 100% renewable and therefore are making huge super profits Third by reducing corporation tax your giving companies that are already price gauging an extra 7% as if they weren't rolling in cash as it was Your policies have 2 chances of growing the economy Fat and None Your removing demand from the lower and middle income households and giving it to higher income households who will more thalikley save it or invest it. We have an acute labour shortage with participation in the workplace below 2019 levels + we put trade sanctions on ourselves with Brexit
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  57. Its a charter to smuggle were loosing millions in duty
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  58. Process them which deports 40,000 and frees up 3 - 4 billion in wasted money There's also an estimate of around +1 billion in GDP if the bulk of the ones given asylum find work give we have a million vacancies that's not going to be difficult.
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  59. I wouldn't bother he's toast he may as well resign as an mp now his political career is burnt to the ground.
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  60. Going net zero is in the national interest it would provide cheaper energy and give businesses a competitive advantage But hey that needs vision and infrastructure investment and doesn't let the energy companies bleed us dry
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  61. No we didn't vote for the removal of FOM orr to leave the single market Norway aren't in the EU but are in the single market this was a political decision by the Conservative Party
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  62. Says a multi millionaire who's party is awash with dark money
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  63.  @acthompson9983  80% on benefit are working poor, the numbers of those not working at all are really small (50,000) we have a system where people o benefit are trapped on minimum wage unable to get out of the poverty trap. What is currently being done in your name is the spread of a low wage economy trapping people into economic slavery working but barely able to survive.
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  64. In 2020 -9.5% to gdp in 2021 +7.5% to gdp leaving a bounce back shortfall 6th out of 7th of the G7 from pre pandemic 2019 to end of 2021 with -1.5% gdp leader is US with +1.5% next is France with +0.2
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  65.  @MusicHoHa  blame Cameron / Osbourne the debt to GDP ratio was 62% when they came in decided on big tax cuts in 2015 the debt to gdp ratio ballooned to just under 90% in 2019. Blame Johnson for the PPE and test and trace scandals
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  66. The economy doesn't have to be a slave to the fossil Oligopoly we have a choice given we are geographically in one of the best places in the world for On and Offshore wind plus Tidal. Both are far cheaper options than gas
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  67. That's the funny part it's 2 The demographic of old angry men are well spread out it seems
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  68.  @gavinbissell8847  nothing compared to the problems we have now
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  69. so your solution is to keep wasting 8 billion a year on performative politics?
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  70. No they don't How about a lecture series on immigration and economics on how it benefits the economy and helps pay for pensions and benefits through taxation The average migrant pays 32,000 more in taxation than someone born in the UK The average EU migrant pays 82,000 more in taxation than someone born in the UK All migrants pay an NHS tax EU migrants are more likely to be transitory The UK has 50,000 people migrating to other countries per annum The Birth rate is 1.6 it needs to be 2.1 to keep a stable population meaning we need 400,000 + net inward migration to just stand still The its all immigrants fault is xenophobic right wing tub thumping fascist crap - Discuss
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  71. Hard Times with all those Russian families sanctioned got to keep the private schools going
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  72. My tax has gone up £600 a year and I'm on 18k
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  73.  @peterhughes506  They've borrowed around 1.8 trillion since 2010 so the bulk of it is nothing t do with the pandemic, it was 130 billion last year alone
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  74. Blair got sucked in by Bush it happens Try the Campbell and Rory Stewart podcast "The Rest is Politics" My view of both of them has gone up it explains a lot of what happens behind the scenes in politics
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  75. GDP per Capita has been falling for 7 quarters straight which means were not in a technical recession its full blown propped up by 1.25 million Visa's
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  76. he trotted out the usual Tory lies though Vaccine rollout is median not leading, the best rollout was Portugal and they used the EU purchasing scheme to pay a fraction of what our government forked out. Brexit is at best 1/2 done and its chaos now plus Bojo sold out the Irish with a border down the Irish sea
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  77. Voter turnout in by elections is always poor why assume its only Cons staying away?
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  78. If there not underplayed why is there 10%+ vacancies and over a billion being wasted on agency staff?
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  79. 1,7% means it's only gone up by 1.7% Deflation is what your wanting only ever seen examples of that during Cov and fossil prices
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  80. It's just so easy to prove Sunak's claim is complete bollox and It gets worse could this be a Streisand effect event quote from SKY The £2,000 figure was "not produced by civil servants" he admits. Sophy Ridge puts to Mr Afolami that taxes have gone up £13,000 per household since 2019, so £2,000 seems a bargain in comparison. He replies: "I don't recognise that number, frankly, because that, I've never seen that calculation."
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  81. It's a very low bar, Bojo has been sacked twice for lying and his speech at conference was Gaslight central
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  82. Austerity is a political choice Look up economic Multiplier Effect For Osbourne's Austerity it was 1.6 and the scale of it has caused all sorts of other economic ripple effects Ex no discharge space for elderly patients with severe dementia and mental illness issues local budgets were slashed and the places closed down, nurses pay has led to a meteoric rise in agency staff at double/treble the cost of an in house nurse
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  83.  @jimbean1196  RT isn't independent Media try reading what was put down
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  84. how about deeply regretting 13 years of Austerity that's lead to the near collapse of the NHS, Justice System, Immigration and Asylum System etc.. There's billions needed for work on crumbling schools and hospitals because repair budgets and replacement building budgets have been slashed
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  85. They've been told to 2 sides everything by their Tory overlord No matter how insane 1 side is
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  86.  @Tpry  It's 5%, Atheists are the biggest group and were chilled
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  87. Yea I mean cheaper energy and more housing can't be eroding fossil profits like that or reducing house values
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  88. Quote The government’s prediction that its Brexit trade deal with Asia-Pacific countries will grow the economy by 0.08 per cent may be an overestimate, it has emerged. Officials working on the Comprehensive and Progressive Agreement for the Trans-Pacific Partnership (CPTPP) deal changed their usual approach to calculating the GDP figure and instead used a new model that “generates larger estimated GDP impacts”, according to the government’s own documentation. Trade secretary Kemi Badenoch last week responded to mockery of the low figure, which amounts to a £1.8bn economic boost, by saying her department's estimate was probably too low and ignored some benefits. But her department’s own small print suggests the number might have been even smaller had the previous model for calculations been used.
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  89. The FogHorn of ignorance has charisma that's a new one, the architect of our exploding migration numbers saying he can fix it is like an arsonist returning to a fire and offering to put it out
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  90. How about a lecture series on immigration and economics on how it benefits the economy and helps pay for pensions and benefits through taxation on TV The average migrant pays 32,000 more in taxation than someone born in the UK The average EU migrant pays 82,000 more in taxation than someone born in the UK All migrants pay an NHS tax EU migrants are more likely to be transitory The UK has 50,000 people migrating to other countries per annum The Birth rate is 1.6 it needs to be 2.1 to keep a stable population meaning we need 400,000 + net inward migration to just stand still The its all immigrants fault is xenophobic right wing tub thumping fascist crap - Discuss
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  91. Tax is higher in the EU
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  92.  @nowisgodinyourlovelylife717  cheap labour was a government policy there still implementing it got nothing to do with being part of thee EU
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  93. I'm a pensioner my taxes have gone up and because my son is on low pay his has as well. on top of that Further NI cuts will keep harming pensioners and we know what the long term plan is it's to raise the pension age to 68
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  94. Just let it drip feed through the press I wan't some of his more important scandals investigating like the Russian money floating around and why Ledvedev Senior isn't on the sanctions list here when he's on Canada's sanction list
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  95.  @maxmoore2788  They proposed to scrap the NI ceiling instead of the additional tax So maybe not brilliant but way better than fkin awful robbin tories
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  96. I've come over dizzy need to sit down WHAT This is impossible I can't believe it did Nige just tell the Truth? There must be some mistake
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  97. There needs to be a permanent taxation and diversification solution to super profit from an oligopoly The fossil industry is a Cartel with huge barriers to other players for entry in the market there is no real competition because the Cartel members are able to control supply. Anything above $50 a barrel for US and UK oil is pure profit with very little risk given the national dependency of major economies. The money raised needs plowing in at the bottom and also needs using for renovating homes up to modern insulation standards especially for pensioners plus infrastructure on fossil alternatives. Sunak was quick to give the bankers a 2 billion tax cut yet the goverment refused to support the Swansea tidal scheme says it all.
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  98. Since when is it settled they only ever had a mandate to leave the EU not the single market or even remove FOM any such radical course should have had a second referendum
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  99. There Conservative self harm has always been a feature Look at GB we've voted in the Tories in the deluded belief that there fiscally good with the economy when every academic economic pointer shows Conservative Supply Side Economics just makes the rich richer and the poor poorer, food banks are a feature not a bug.
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  100. Millions of people were sold a pup by voting for Johnson
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  101.  @maskedavenger2578  Benefits have been eroded over the last 40+ years there's nothing left to cut the numbers on them are 80% working poor with only 50,000 non working. The uplift won't even cost as much as the dropping of the 45% tax rate or the bankers tax break Rhishi gave away
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  102. another 33 to go Good riddance to bad rubbish
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  103. Rwanda is gone border force are recruiting clean water bill had it's 1st reading on friday multiple renewable projects expressed through after being sat there for years waiting for funding
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  104. Yes it's a Con same as there other schemes
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  105. My mate is an IT engineer and he's on 65k I'd suggest getting another job I'm a retired IT data analyst and left on 55k
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  106.  @blackarnold  she's been spouting economic garbage for weeks trickle down supply side doesn't work and she's going for the full package were talking upwards of 200 billion added to debt to fund tax cuts. The last group to do a full analysis on tax cuts v return as in gdp increase put it at 28p for every pound spent + fueling the debt will baloon interest rates
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  107. Starmer will have already done a 10-11 hour day by 6pm
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  108. its about industrial strategy 1st to net zero will dominate the next industrial age its about investment and controlling your own energy costs completely visionless and hollow is all I've got to say not investing in infrastructure is akin to signing up for another RAAC and Sewage scandal
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  109.  @RaRa-eu9mw  his wife works for the NHS and Rhishi can't do maths on waiting lists By the way the 38 billion is 9.5 billion a year or 1 Banker tax break or 1 fossil subsidy
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  110. This supports small to medium family farmers (3 million allowance) NOT the Clarkson's of this world
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  111. It's normally spin, Jonson lying on an industrial scale is on a whole new level. This its everything that comes out of his Mouth, fastest rollout in Europe - lie, fastest recovery in G7 - lie were 6th got all the big decisions right - lie more uturns than at plumbase
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  112. Infrastructure creates economic growth ex the Channel Tunnel is estimated to pay back twice what it cost in increased GDP
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  113. he trotted out the usual Tory lies though Vaccine rollout is median not leading, the best rollout was Portugal and they used the EU purchasing scheme to pay a fraction of what our government forked out. Brexit is at best 1/2 done and its chaos now plus Bojo sold out the Irish with a border down the Irish sea The refugee crisis is 3 times worse than it was (borders have 2 sides and were no longer cooperating fully with EU police forces)
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  114. The economy doesn't have to be a slave to the fossil Oligopoly we have a choice given we are geographically in one of the best places in the world for On and Offshore wind plus Tidal. Both are far cheaper options than gas and pulling us away from oil will boost the economy and curb inflation.
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  115. Fastest growing economy in the G7? 2020 -11% gdp 2021 +7% gdp (-4 over 2 years) 2019 to present 6th out of 7 for G7 growth ONS predicts a -2% hit due to the pandemic plus a -4% hit due to Brexit not adjusted for inflation at 7% for the near future
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  116. ​ @jjefferyworboys8138 75% windfall tax on the 170 billion of expected excess profits
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  117. when is 3 million not enough? and I'm a pensioner with a son on minimum wage we got more out of the budget than was taken as a family for the fist time in a long time
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  118. EV's achieved parity with ICE cars this year and will get cheaper Doing nothing and not building the necessary infrastructure will damage uk productivity even further, reliance on fossil is already bleeding 100's of billions out of the economy
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  119.  @nowisgodinyourlovelylife717  your confused Asylum claims and Ecenomic policy aren't connected a low wage economy is a choice made by the government.
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  120. A study has put the benefit to the economy of allowing them to work while their applications are processed at 6 billion
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  121. Reform have 3 members it's a private company. People giving them money are subscribers. Nige us all gob as usual.
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  122. Total borrowing was around 250 billion and 200 of that was for the banking bailout Since 2010 the Tories have borrowed 1.6 Trillion Our GDP per capita is now smaller than it was in 2010 by 10%
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  123. They got screwed with fiscal drag the 95£ won't even make a dent in that
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  124. Blojo doesn't act decisively about anything he's the true mister wibble wobble More U turns than a U bend factory
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  125. They have higher taxes
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  126. The Tories moreso due to squeezing public sector pay reduction in train8ng and n9t regulating the gig economy ​@jamie_2452
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  127. Back in 2010 local councils had special facilities for people who couldn't be put into an old people's home they were shut down because of Austerity Every Conservative Voter who voted in the Cameron / Osbourne government should be given a 1 off wealth tax bill to reinstate the damage they've done
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  128.  @tjd18  If your allowed to unilaterally change an international treaty then why not?
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  129. Why its not a deterrent and for every person we send to Rwanda we get 1 back
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  130. I wish so your solution is to do nothing but shout a lot and waste 8 billion year doing it?
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  131. It's going down to -10 in Ukraine overnight followed by 6/7 during the day for the next week over 150k military personnel in freeze thaw conditions the bulk of them can't rest up in captured cities and the Ukrainians are targeting fuel and food trucks. If I was a Russian soldier right now the thought of freezing to death after running out of diesel or if I survive that plowing through mud isn't particularly attractive The logistics analysts said that Russia didn't have enough supply trucks to start with and it seems everyone in the Russian system was on the make either substituting cheap alternatives or not buying replacement parts such as tyres at all. Could the corruption that keeps Putin top dog unravel his Ukrainian expedition?
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  132. Move blaming everything on migrants and refugees is so 2016
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  133. The true cost is astronomical they promised improved growth would pay for it there was non so it got paid for with additional debt. 2016 debt to GDP Ratio 62% remember when they claimed Labour had bankrupted the country 2019 debt to GDP Ratio 82% 2022 debt to GDP ratio 100%+
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  134. So I received a flyer from my local candidate It was full of don't vote for Labour because then a complete load of fiction about Labour policy except 1 nugget which was railing against the introduction of Labour laws to create a right to minimum hours, now the thing is the lack of regulation on Zero Hour and the lack of regulation on the GIG Economy and the lack of Regulation on Outsourcing are huge drivers of net migration. We all know where UBer got all those drivers from, undercutting UK taxi and cab firms then offshoring profits and yet were supposed to be scared of regulation? a fair weeks work? a bit of economic stability? and an end to relentlessly driving down wages? Oh and lets not forget the immigration that underpins it
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  135. Voting for Brexit was a mind numbingly stupid idea hope there enjoying their Turnips
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  136.  @brutusbastados4801  Borders have 2 sides and the British have been arsey for years or Rather the Conservatives British exceptionalism is a load of bollox live in the real world not booster Boris's fantasy island
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  137. This was from Simon Case the same person that blocked her promotion because of the partygate report The story of Gray’s appointment began with Sunak’s reshuffle in February, where Kemi Badenoch increased her international trade portfolio to include business. As a result, she requested Gray to be her department’s Permanent Secretary. This role is the most senior civil servant of a given department or ministry. However, according to the Daily Express, it appears Cabinet Secretary Simon Case vetoed Gray’s candidacy on a technicality because she was “not of the right grade to be promoted to permanent secretary”. The impact of this was devastating for Gray.
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  138. There not cutting taxes though, Fiscal drag means the 20% rate should be 15000 not 12250 its frozen till 2028 and there cutting government funding from councils while allowing council tax to rise year on year for the next 5 years. Big loosers are pensioners most on low incomes with 2 million in poverty currently its estimated 4 out of every 10 people retiring will add to that number
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  139. Lynch has a thorough grasp of economics and the choices that are being made. I studied economics at University and for someone who has had no formal education in the topic he's been spot on with every comment showing a deep knowledge of its ebbs and flows. Burley on the other hand and all the presenters should be ashamed of themselves how long would it take to do an Economics crash course given they to spout nonsense based on ignorance on the topic
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  140. Gibber Jabba Johnson the king of the word salad and look over there and it would be worse under Labour
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  141. The last time the US started tariff wars it ended in the great Depression, so much for brex1t now
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  142. Why because Con volunteers would demand paying?
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  143. ​@jrobs1133 taxes are rising anyway for that your getting worse services more crime negative disposable income growth and energy bills tripled The rise in energy costs alone are the equivalent of 40% tax band for anyone on 20% and the Tories are doing fk all about it Things can only get better
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  144. The Tories can't lower taxes without cutting services that includes prisons police the armed forces schools NHS road and rail infrastructure energy infrastructure etc. and Cutting taxes doesn't create growth keeping people locked into a low wage economy so your claim just has no substance
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  145. latest news is incremental gains heavy targeting of russian logistics and backup forces
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  146. Asylum and immigration are 2 different things we need workers to replace the people who die off our birth rate is 1.6 also 1/2 million people emigrated from the UK in 2022 so we need to replace them as well
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  147. There's over 150 getting lobbying money while it's smaller amounts as was seen in the Owen Patterson case it's not chump change
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  148. The lie about Starmer was started and promoted by Patriotic Alternative (PA) is a British far-right white nationalist group which states that it has active branches nationwide. Throw gasoline on that fire and it was almost guaranteed to blow up the fact that it has done so so quickly shows how corrupted the Tory alliance with UKIP and BNP voters to get Brexit done has become.
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  149.  @iqqyplaysgames  90% of vehicles are compliant there scared or stupid or both
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  150. Johnson lies new one on me honest as the day he was born always tells the truth that someone wants to hear
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  151. @paulgibbons2320  I live in a small northern town its cost small companies in the town millions in lost business also a major employer up sticks and moved its hq to Holland with over 100 top salaried jobs. After grants and other payments membership cost 12 billion Economic impact analysis shows 50 billion lost a year its also doubled migration because of dependents
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  152. It was a Star wars reference rather than accusing him of being mr blobby or maybe ?
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  153. ​ @T5Zplayer take a 30% pay cut the come back
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  154. Blair got sucked in by Bush it happens Try the Campbell and Rory Stewart podcast "The Rest is Politics" My view of both of them has gone up it explains a lot of what happens behind the scenes in politics
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  155. There's an 8 Billion tax cut for bankers in the April budget and .... government money spent on public sector workers has an economic multiplier effect as it attracts tax and is spent in the economy, by the time the tax wheel stops going round the Treasury are out of pocket by around 20p in the pound
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  156. Why would anyone want Tories on steroids given their track record
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  157. In what way?
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  158. Government pay awards are subject to a multiplier, it was calculated by 2 leading Economists in 2012 that Austerity Economic Multiplier was 1.6 Long story short money moves round the economy from government spending creating increased GDP all of which is subject to tax in the case of the above multiplier the actual cost to the treasury is between 15-20p in the pound so total cost is round 5-6 billion not the 30 being quoted and it may be even higher given that every penny of the increase will be spent in the employees local area.
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  159. At least Kier is making an effort and there are disciplinary processes in place Unlike Braverman
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  160. All government spend and tax attracts an economic multiplier in the case of renewable energy spend its regarded as 1.6. Investment in infrastructure returns in the short term through money coming in and long term through increased tax revenues This means your investment of 28 billion ends up as 44 down the line.
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  161. How about a lecture series on immigration and economics on how it benefits the economy and helps pay for pensions and benefits through taxation The average migrant pays 32,000 more in taxation than someone born in the UK The average EU migrant pays 82,000 more in taxation than someone born in the UK All migrants pay an NHS tax EU migrants are more likely to be transitory The UK has 50,000 people migrating to other countries per annum The Birth rate is 1.6 it needs to be 2.1 to keep a stable population meaning we need 400,000 + net inward migration to just stand still The its all immigrants fault is xenophobic right wing tub thumping fascist crap - Discuss
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  162. 2 phrases Tactical voting And FPTP
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  163. Fastest growing in the G7? Were 6th out of 7 in economic performance Over the course of the pandemic so far (between the fourth quarter of 2019 and the third quarter of 2021), the UK’s economy has experienced the second worst growth among the G7, contracting by 1.5%. Wages in real terms have increased by -4% under Tory rule as we lurch from one decade of stagnation to another Our Currency is worth 20% less against the Euro from 2016 to present day There are 20 miles of nose to tail lorries trying to get across the channel which will only get worse as Biometric passports are introduced for third countries. There is literally nowhere to go for small firms who have had the rug pulled from under them with billions being spent on customs regulations, tariffs, protocols and procedures. What Fkin planet is this Turnip on
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  164. they won't and after decades of underinvestment we need both I live 3 miles away from the hospital and have to catch 2 buses my Doctor moved from the centre of Town and now is only accessible by Car Bike or a 2 mile walk Public transport its a joke
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  165. ​ @jayp8319 what mess is that? Welsh water have the cleanest beaches in the UK and the NHS is no worse than the UK The fetishisation of the Tories on outsourcing blights the whole system
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  166. I wouldn't trust Boris to tell the truth about anything, at this point its safe to say he's winging it and guessing Then when it goes tits up he'll blame someone else
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  167. She's a qualified economist, thers also another one in there called Torsten Bell We've had 14 years of Tory budgets that don't deliver growth, suppress public sector pay and increase debt
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  168. Labour through multiple administrations since ww2 have borrowed in total 500 billion The Tories since 2010 to 2024 borrowed 1.4 trillion The claim that Labour are the profligate party is completly false
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  169. What's wrong with Starmer? Just stop reading the Daily Mail, Sun, Express or Telegraph without the huge smear campaign against anyone that isn't in their Thrall he seems perfectly normal and wanting a better outcome for everyone not the usual for the Rich Tories
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  170. There going to give him an award when he tells the truth
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  171. Its worse in the Tories looking at the gender imbalance they have.
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  172. Also he's looking at trying to get a Pan European approach to people smuggling like Asset forfeiture etc.
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  173. during her Loud week last week the Tories dropped 2 points in the polls to 23% Labour rose to 47% so the country thinks she's a waste of space
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  174. less than 300 million on Rwanda or the 2.5 billion spent on barges
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  175. Rancid flies
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  176. @@godblessfarage the numbers are 500,000 work visas 500,000 student visas remember education is a big earner for the Universities We have a birthrate of 1.6 -4/500,000 population per annum We also had 500,000 people emigrate from the UK last year Given these numbers why not just process the asylum claims and have done with it
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  177. Sunak is part of the problem as are the Tories there not going to fix jack Just more Austerity for us and unlimited banker bonuses for them
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  178. I have lots of assets budget won't touch any of them, there are loads of ways to legally avoid tax no matter what is in the budget
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  179.  @simonmorgan225  When the Tories talk about tax cuts its for their mates they'll throw the serfs a bone now and again to try and make it look like there being fair. Current proposal from most is a reduction in Corporation Tax, last year Corporate profits rose by 12.5% a study showed that over half the UK inflation is down to increases in company profits using scarcity to jack up prices in a consolidated marketplace. Corporation tax cuts will give even more super profits to the Fossil companies while barely helping the Green Tech startup who won't be making any profit but who need grants.
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  180. Don't worry a lot of the students are learning a foreign language so they can get off Turnip loving Gamon land for good 500,000 permanently emigrated from the UK last year
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  181. He's already cancelled Rwanda saving millions
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  182.  @greymane4030  I realise that after studying economics in the 70's the key to their succes has been the levels of ignorance on how economies work by the MSM in general shown up and spotlight by Lynch's recent RMT interviews.
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  183. yes and she started it selling off assets then leasing them back on a guarantee price + inflation for what a few years of tax cuts now we have constant sewage discharge beaches in the north east unusable
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  184. Boris lost me when he lied about Brexit, when The Haunted Pencil has to canvas Sun readers for Brexit benefits you'd think the penny would drop and the Serf class would wake up to what had been done
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  185. someone with a economics degree from the LSE and experience at the BOE, a bit of competence for a change more like
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  186. Im a pensioner on low income due to fiscal drag my effctive tax rate has gone from 20% to 33% He's talking complete BS
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  187. That was the Supreme court
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  188.  @aaronstorey9712  so what's fair about having a Chancellor running uk tax policy using tax loopholes that he refuses to plug to enrich themselves? His budget specifically didn't touch unearned income or capital gains
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  189. Since when? We're poorer than 14years ago, we've lost the right to move freely in Europe, Brex1t depressed our gdp by over 1 trillion since 2016 and privatisation is a complete failure
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  190. People on low incomes spend most of their money on food energy and rent, all have been above the headline rate Some staples have doubled in price ex pasta
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  191.  @ebillyboi  Economy grew year on year under Blair and GDP per Capita saw its biggest rise on record average wage growth was well over 20+%
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  192. He controls UK fiscal policy so its in everyone's interest to know if he's setting tax policy based on his personal finances Which he appears to be doing
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  193. At Least Blair had a positive economic record of +25% increase in average wages with well funded services
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  194. ​@Canti_MyEverythingOsborne's Austerity strangled any recovery and we've been in an Austerity doom loop on and off since
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  195. There's a really good podcast by ITV News Partygate: The Inside Story Seems they were running a nightclub not a government
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  196. The Tories
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  197.  @lord.of.veracity  at least we won't have this trickle down Austerity nonsense and get a better agreement with the EU
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  198.  @brutusbastados4801  could be because its not an island? Get a grip of reality we have a population of 67 million and a population growth rate of 1.6 loosing 1/2 million people per annum. Also 50/60,000 emigrate from the UK every year. Bottom line is we need immigrants for the economy vacancies are now up over 1.3 million
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  199. At least he has a workable energy policy which would bring down costs if implemented
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  200.  @Pomarium  yes of course it is now go lie down take your medication and watch the Matrix again
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  201. Markets go up and down the latest OBR report showed H unt and Sunak were telling porkies
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  202. Because of Brexit we have amplified the problem by a large degree Fast tracking is done on people coming from safe countries with repatriation agreements and fast track visa applicants from war zones so neither group are stuck in the system sucking up money
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  203. Average wages have fallen since 2010 by -6.1% Fiscal drag is increasing your taxes month on month rates frozen till 2028, schools and hospitals crumbling the river and sea terat like an open sewer Really your on board with that?
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  204. They needed to to cover the sale of Gilts The Tories have spent 14 years trashing our economy and Truss turbo charged the sh1t hitting the fan
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  205. He's increased your tax by 560 with fiscal drag this is worth 95 at most
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  206.  @mclark1515  so true maybe he didn't want Yes for an answer
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  207.  @Acheron666  the question is is he better or worse than the other candidates personally think anyone in the cabinet should have been disbarred from running
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  208. So either Kwerteng and Truss ain't going to be lasting long at this rate
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  209. debt to gdp ratio 2004 40% 2010 62% (Banking Crisis) 2019 92% (Cameron tax cuts or the rich straight onto debt) 2023 Just under 100% So the party of debt is Drum roll please THE CONSERVATIVES
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  210. Since when he's one of the thickest MP'S in the Con party and there are plenty of contenders
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  211.  @stevengladwin-z4p  in 5 years time the economy will have grown for the 1st time under a PM since Blair & Brown. We've had 14 years of stagnation under the Tories culminating in the 1st 5 year parliment in UK history where people were worse off at its end than at its start, things are that bad that our trade by volume has shrunk by 7% in that period another 1st for a government
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  212. Scotland
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  213.  @Razmatazuk  of course there's money there's an 8 billion tax cut for bankers in April's upcoming budget.
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  214. only around 150 billion give or take the odd million
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  215. They could have done what based on rumours? He's in the Conservative party Con being the operative word
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  216. ​ @eyesodd not enough hospital or mortuary space
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  217.  @pandasrules7536  So your keen on another decade of economic stagnation and dropping living standards how strange. Economically they have the worst performance in 200 years but somehow in your head there is no alternative. Sounds like Stockholm Syndrome to me
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  218. council tax system needs replacing but no one dares say it
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  219.  @leebrowning3668  other priorities and your better off taking it over as and when each franchise finishes or they declare Bankruptcy Blair and Brown where both centerist and Brown especially didn't want the political heat of a costly renationalizing program
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  220. There will be another crisis Johnson is lazy and feckless and doesn't do detail the question is will people get used to the stench of his corruption
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  221.  @S-North  neither are these 10 volunteers
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  222. There all but joining with standards realignment It will be a long time and multiple parliamentary sessions before we could rejoin the near future is reduced friction So anyone saying Labour should platform rejoining are living in fantasy land and such a move would guarantee another Tory win
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  223. Plugging in EV's to a V2G system allows grid level load balancing at zero cost bar the software saving billions in standby capacity Octopus are all over this with good FIT and discounted off peak tariff. Did a refurb + extension last year added underfloor and double insulation heating came on last night in the TV room only for the 1st time since April costs where around +10% on budget. A lot of net zero is a complete no brainer win win
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  224. The fact he groped 2 men while hammered or that he'd made unwanted advances using his position neither of those 2 things are rumours
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  225. Process them which deports 40,000 and frees up 3 - 4 billion in wasted money There's also an estimate of around +1 billion in GDP if the bulk of the ones given asylum find work given we have a million vacancies that's not going to be difficult.
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  226. Because it wasn't news worthy enough
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  227. ​ @britnatzaredemocracydenier5922 he's a realist We've left our only real option is to be a rule taker
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  228. Asylum applications in 2018 where below 20,000 there now around 40,000 what has changed over the 5 years is the numbers stuck in the system has gone from 35,000 to 165,000 Numbers have gone up but not to the levels we saw during the Kosovo war or the Iraq crisis I don't think its unreasonable to expect us to take 50-60,000 per year
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  229. blame labour electing Corbyn
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  230.  @emmajones5075  What like the Stagnant economy that's 6th out of 7 in the G7 or the Covid contract scandals with the VIP Lane maybe the 20 mile tailbacks to get on a ferry at Dover. We could talk about the broken promises cancelling of HS3 triple lock busted or tax increases?
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  231. ​ @WouldbeRenaissanceLady6926 the price increases are down to the pandemic and Ukraine war everywhere has had inflation
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  232. Sounds like a Mogg idea he's keen on slavery of the prolls as well
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  233. renewables are the cheapest form of power on the grid have been since 2019 the reason we don't have more is Tory policy which has tied us to Gas The Tories have also baked in 100 of billions of pounds in subsidies to the fossil industry Norway has produced slightly less Oil from its fields yet over the years has collected 500 billion more in tax from them than the UK.
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  234. The UK birth rate is 1.65 it needs to be 2.1 to maintain the numbers as they are currently as well as enough young people to pay taxes for the pensions of all the xenophobic masses they keep scaring with this relentless drumbeat of toxic anti-immigration rhetoric. so without substantial inward migration were all screwed
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  235.  @dermotmcglinchey282  zero hour contracts shouldn't exist, there needs to be an adequate social safety net and rents need freezing. But those are different conversations
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  236.  @MR-X-.  Why would a Protestant or a Catholic waste their vote on a party based on religious grounds? The protocol protects the Unionists from a United Ireland vote while its in place, why do they even care about a trade border down the Irish sea they get to export tariff free to both zones
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  237. its 1 million for a couple and SIPPS are excluded if to a relative Its been calculated that 40% of your house value on average is down to government policies including Right to buy and other government interventions. The Tories have made it far worse in the last 14 years as well with house prices rising on average by 66% and real wages falling by -7%
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  238. Human rights apply to everyone not just boat people either everyone has them or no one does
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  239. The current government are importing labour on the quiet from the Philippines and Indian sub continent then lying to your face there doing something about migration. Its just theatre and expensive at that the AUS scheme cost 2 million per migrant.
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  240. he's Brown there racist not rational they'd vote for Fabricant rather than Sunak
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  241. which we don't we got overtaken in June and have steadily slid down the pack
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  242. ​ @kevinmcguinness1113 The data used for boundary changes is out of date as its based on electoral registers from March 2020. Since then 2.5 million people have died and 2.5 million young people have become eligible to vote. Also remote working either partial or full has seen an exodus from major cities as especially young professionals look to move out of the likes of London buying property in what we're blue wall seats.
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  243. Late is different to tax evasion
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  244. @@unknown_name_389 our tax base is already low how that tax is proportioned through income groups is up to the government but tax cuts will do fk all The energy companies are expected to make 170 billion in excess profits over the next 2 years
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  245. I have The UK has a birth rate of 1.6 it needs to be 2.1 50,000 people migrate from the UK abroad every year To maintain the current population and provide enough tax revenue to pay pensions NHS schools without huge tax rises the UK needs between 350,000 immigrants and 400,000 immigrants per annum to just stand still in terms of population. How about we be decent human beings and process these people's asylum claims as quickly as possible so they can be of benefit to the economy
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  246.  @ayeright1131  +25% in average wages during Blair's time -3% during Cameron's god knows how bad Johnson's figure will be but its going to be the worst on record. Dodgy wars aside Blair's economic record was the best of Post War prime Ministers
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  247. What the +20% in wage growth the highest increase on record?
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  248.  @uniquevideosUk  tax base has been constant at 33% for the last 2 decades Osborne just shifted it to the lower and middle class by upping VAT by 5% to 20% while starting the process of creating loads of trickle down tax breaks
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  249. wow Galloway's foghorn of no hopers
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  250.  @josefschiltz2192  My politics are centre left but I listen to various centre right views through podcasts and Times Radio and Rory would have made a top notch Prime Minister, the current lying bag of !"£$ that is dragging the country and the Con's down gets harder to stomach every day.
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  251.  @peacelovingmusicwarrior5823  he's better than Truss by a country mile but that's not saying anything she seems to be modelling her tax and spend policy on Turkey
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  252. They just can't do it can they they have to filch in a backhander to their corporate mates, they just couldn't bring themselves to squeeze some of those gross windfall profits out of the fossil multi nationals Anyone thinking that Tories are in it for anyone but their corporate backers has Stockholm syndrome
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  253. whats an antibrexiteer? Is that someone who will clean up after Big Dog's pile of steaming excrement and fix the delays at Dover that at their worst are as long as 72 hours or the Irish sea border problem or the 1.2 million vacancy problem or lorry loads of paper work to export import problem or the Shellfish exporting problem or Artists and bands not being able to tour in Europe problem or the loss of Ebay and Amazon market to small sellers problem or the collapse of our car industry problem? The list is pretty endless
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  254. ​ @iareid8255 there protesting for peace Armistice = noun. : temporary stopping of open acts of warfare by agreement between the opponents
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  255. The government broke the on demand supply chain when they left the single market and killed freedom of movement the Pandemic has acted like a accelerant. This has been slowly evolving since Jan, before we left the EU many companies stocked up what were seeing now is the inevitable consequences of the Johnson Deal.
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  256. Why should the government subsidise business by depressing wages forcing people into in work benifit?
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  257.  @Zarken26  it takes up 9% of our gdp Germany haas a semi privatised system that takes, 13% Nearest equivalent is Canada wit 11% Its a fookin bargain
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  258. What 13% unemployment and outside London and the home counties the collapse of manufacturing?
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  259. no they won't Net Zero = saving for your average person on energy bills
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  260. ​ @thewordforever4839 narr Ron is a true Klansman at heart
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  261. Sunak gave a tax break of approx 8 billion to the bankers this is enough to fund a 10% pay rise for All public sector workers it takes effect in April 2023
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  262. True scrapping the NI ceiling raises just as much and don't forget we have to find an extra 2 billion to fund the bank tax giveaway
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  263. ​ @pau1phi11ips 425 billion wiped off the value of assets held by uk pension companies
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  264. the reason we ended up with Truss and Trussanomics was because Bojo purged the party of moderates in 2019 allowing the dregs of UKIP and more lunatic fring Brexit Ultra's into the party. the ERG power grab through Truss is all Jonson's fault
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  265. It's estimated the move to net zero will reduce electricity prices by 50% by 2050 in real terms
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  266.  @BeBe-vh4ry  More than would have been under the Tories that's for sure who were prioritising NI cuts over investment and raising the tax thresholds. The next stage of NI cuts would have seen the pension age raise to 68.
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  267.  @kevinb9830  The person accusing her of impropriety is Simon Case who has an axe to grind and who deliberately sabotaged her career in the Civil Service
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  268. Fascists are far right extremists who want to take power by subverting the government and media so calling social media fascists is fukin dumb. Everyone is aware Benito Trumpollini was keen on the old neo-fascism with a modern twang of the KKK
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  269. Why not open a processing centre in Calais so they can apply there which cuts the business model from under their legs
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  270. 'When a clown moves into a palace, he doesn't become a king. The palace becomes a circus.'
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  271. we can't afford not to 1st to net zero will dominate the next industrial age its about investment and controlling your own energy costs
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  272. He was seen as acceptable by the Murdoc press who wanted all lock downs and face masks canned
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  273. Boris thinks with his trousers multiple Affairs and wives are testament to the fact he's got half his brain below the waistline
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  274. A certain amount of debt is OK 100% for us is not OK This is Osborne and subsequent Tory chancellor's mess In 2006 debt to gdp was 40% by 2010 it was 62 % because of the banking crisis at no time since then has a Tory chancellor balanced the books or come up with a coherent plan to grow the economy. We've had 13 wasted years after the Browns green shoots were strangled at birth by Austerity.
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  275. Tax has risen in real terms by 33% since 2010, it will go up because of the built in rises put in by Sunak, any rises Reeve will make won't affect 95% of us
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  276. Net zero reduces costs if a government building refurbishment spent +10% on uprating insulation to A+ standard the savings in energy costs would cover capital outlay in a couple of years reducing energy consumption permanently for the life of the building.
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  277. Because the won't import dogs from Afghanistan?
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  278. I just think Abbot has lost the plot a bit the reason she ended up with the whip suspended was she got confused and sent in a what she said was a draft
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  279. The roots of this is ripping out council funding for social care, not only do bed blocking pensioners cost x10 over social care places to keep in hospital but there's loads more of them than in 2010
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  280. Net zero delivers cheaper energy hollow man here is just shilling for the fossil industry
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  281.  @Raven-qj8xk  ISA's, SIPP's and vintage guitars
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  282. They still think they can win an election by blaming everything on the EU even though we're not in the EU and if that doesn't work its Labour's fault or the woke lefties etc.
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  283. According to a guy just interviewed on the Times from a right wing think tank Labours plans aren't credible so which is it? Because I'm sick of the plan that has defunded the public service sector pay and promoted low wage zero hour which has had a ripple effect through the economy to the point my 24 year old son barley makes above minimum wage even though he works his ar5e off?
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  284. So we've gone from frictionless trade to lorry parks in kent with only a grate to piss in and extended delays with thousands of pages of paperwork got rid of cabotage lost 20k foreign hgv drivers nearly overnight and its somehow not Brexit? 5 years to plan and all we've had from the government is project fear I mean YellowHammer and oh why not just pull the plug and see what happens what could possibly go wrong. Oven ready deal my arse there still complaining about NI and oh the bad EU made me sign it. Fkin useless the entire cabinet
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  285. anyone on PAYE Reason there the ones that spend money in the economy Tax will be levied on wealth created from wealth as in assets their sale and movement which is where 100% of the cov money trickled up to
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  286. Quote from the Times Sue Gray quit the civil service to become Sir Keir Starmer's chief of staff after being blocked from one of the most senior roles in government Too honest to promote she jumps ship for Labour and a fat pay rise
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  287. We borrowed 130 billion on the markets last year there telling us that interest will be going up because we're spending like drunks
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  288. Johnson's hard Brexit has destroyed the on-demand supply chain no one in their right mind would set up in the UK now
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  289. Why does it matter? He does have a mortgage though Sunak doesn't
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  290. Yea like 60 years in the EU smoked by a bunch of Hedge fund sponsored Tories
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  291. It's interview both sides ism Some things don't have 2 sides to the debate such as Is Johnson a lazy entitled incompetent liar?
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  292. There isn't a conspiracy he behaved like a complete asshole was warned then behaved like even more of an asshole so he got banned
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  293. 100 billion due to Brexit
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  294. BOE have a free webpage to calculate inflation it's how I worked out I'm paying £560 more a year in in tax due to Sunak's fiscal drag
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  295. @T5Zplayer  we were 800 billion in debt 14 years ago our tax base was 33%, were 2.4 trillion in debt and our tax base is 37% and rising We spent 20 billion on housing support last year because of Tory asset stripping, 72 billion on energy support because of Tory asset stripping and abandonment of labour green policies over the 14 years.
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  296.  @pipoo1  True
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  297.  @andrewbarton3040  So you'd actively vote against having an expanding economy real wage growth and a functioning health service your either one of the 1% or a masochist. Literally the last 12 years of Tory misrule has shown the worst ecenomic and wage growth in 200 years wages are currently -4% since 2010
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  298. Bloomberg put out an opinion piece a few days ago that said Britain was univestable under the current regime the BOE is extending its bond buybacks were debt loaded to > 100% and Truss and Co want to push tax cuts funded by borrowing and an energy policy that doesn't tax super profits. the cabinet are laughing stock on the world markets
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  299. I'm happy enough to bide my time 2 years of Austerity should see them wiped out. the damage is done Sunak will calm the markets I think its the best result for labour there's nothing anyone can do about the impending housing crash
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  300. Starmer isn't asking questions that Sunak will answer he's now bypassing Sunak and speaking to the public disassembling the image that Sunak is a new broom and is confidently changing things around. Sunak would be wise to go to the polls asap he just looks like a punchbag at the moment whatever Stat he trots out no one believes him anymore
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  301. he behaved like a complete asshole was warned then behaved like even more of an asshole so he got banned Starting a riot where 5 people died and 140 police were injured is a pretty decent reason to get booted off
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  302. If something comes in from the EU its origins may have been from outside and not been checked for pests pesticides diseases etc.
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  303. Capital expenditure on net zero will reduce energy bills and even your taxes? Ex if a government building refurbishment spent +10% on uprating insulation to A+ standard the savings in energy costs would cover capital outlay in a couple of years reducing energy consumption permanently for the life of the building. Even huge capital outlay on say a tidal system the size of Hinkley C is more cost effective than a Nuclear power station because there are no fuel costs and infrastructure like Hydro lasts 50-100 years
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  304. On the contrary the NI Protocol will save the North from the ever evolving train wreck that is Brexit Already ferries have been re-routed from the continent to the south lorries no longer go via dover then a western ferry to Ireland as the Brexit busting routes evolve the North's economy will completely align with the Souths due to trade gravity and there being a border in the Irish sea. The sausage war is already lost supermarket chains are sourcing product from the EU because there's no paperwork involved. Lets remind ourselves who put the border down the Irish sea Bojo and Frostie the wonder clowns
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  305. I'm a pensioner why is this a punishment? Freezing tax thresholds and defunding the NHS has had a huge impact on my life
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  306. It's not even that the reason people on state pension will end up paying tax is because of Tory tax rises, as a Pensioner myself my tax bill has gone up by +£550 my water bill has gone up over inflation as has my energy bill food bill and council tax
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  307. how would a tax cut for the wealthy send a message?
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  308. Failure of Leadership? Since when did we have a leader surely one of Bojo the wonderclown's famous slogans will slay the problem Get fuel delivery done or Level up your fuel tank or Hands Face Space stay at home to save fuel or Build back better have an electric car and a solar panel or your f****d
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  309. @FunnyFlix the government owns Railtrack and have told them not to settle they want the dispute they think they can use this to drive a wedge between workers and commuters. They also provide a lot of money to the rail companies and are responsible for UK infrastructure policy With this government its always someone else's fault and there endlessly trying to pick fights to distract from their appalling economic mismanagement
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  310. The Tory Manifesto had Net zero, HS2/3, social care and Levelling up in it all of which Sunak Thatcher Boy ripped up
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  311. Labour haven't been in power for 13 years so what your saying he's responsible for what exactly
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  312. No one is interested in a war in Ukraine least of all the Tories as a spotlight will shine on Laundromat London where Putin and his Oligarchs wash their money
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  313. no we don't it's just so they can excuse not investing in Infrastructure, renewables reached parity price wise with gas in 2019 and EV car prices reached parity this year
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  314. economy was decent when the Tories took over the worst of the banking crisis was over under Brown, most economists think he saved the UK banking system Growth under labour saw GDP per Capita growth at its highest since records began
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  315.  @larsboobies615  they don't come round very often, the post war labour leaders weren't overly charismatic Churchill was yet they still won.
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  316.  @geocyberwolf  Stop with the MSM splaining and go look up the policies Just because there not covered in the MSM doesn't mean there not there
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  317. Reeve has a degree in Economics from the LSE and worked in the BOE she is probably the most qualified person among the last crop of 600+ MP's to run the treasury and Renewable energy is the cheapest on the grid and has been since 2019 with new installs
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  318. So Osborne's 19% tax rate cut Cost the Treasury 200 Billion in lost receipts while it was in place so how much GDP did it Generate? According to economists around 0.5% GDP which = 40 billion in additional tax What did companies spend the money on if they didn't reinvest it well quite simply in share Buy Backs boosting Stock price which in turn got the CEO's record payouts.
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  319. deliberately so a large bunch of Labour voters believed the BS and voted to leave
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  320. At least they'll build houses for the generations the Tories have screwed over with thier policies
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  321. And why did they need benefits? Because there barred from working while their application is being processed The system is totally fkd up so don't blame Starmer for trying to make people's lives better
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  322.  @nyxnecrodragon4256  we need every billion of GDP we can get after 14 years of Tory economic mismanagement.
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  323. collective responsibly seeing them bury themselves defending the indefensible is entertainment The guy at Ryan Air was right this lot couldn't run a sweet shop
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  324. There is only 2000 Army drivers and they won't have the appropriate insurance anyway.
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  325.  @msquared6695  Great idea having untrained drivers running round a cargo full of inflammable petrol what could go wrong
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  326. The 1st to net zero will have a huge competitive advantage over other nations by providing cheaper energy to its businesses
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  327. borrowing was 128 billion last year expected to be the same this yet were spending 20 billion on tax cuts and not fixing the RAAC and asbestos in schools.
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  328. Privatize the profits Socialize the Losses the Conservative way
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  329. We still have loads of disused airfield frow ww2 in the green belt
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  330. My mum and mother in law buy it occasionally then spout all sorts of infantile crap they've picked up from it
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  331. Just be diverting the 10's of billions away from trickle down tax breaks and putting it into services they will be better
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  332.  @perolagrande  When the Tories talk about tax cuts its for their mates they'll throw the serfs a bone now and again to try and make it look like there being fair. Current proposal from most is a reduction in Corporation Tax, last year Corporate profits rose by 12.5% a study showed that over half the UK inflation is down to increases in company profits using scarcity to jack up prices in a consolidated marketplace. Corporation tax cuts will give even more super profits to the Fossil companies and actually fuel inflation to even higher levels
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  333. It's all crocodile tears by the Tories there going to award a freeport contract to the Parent group (there not a UK firm) They've done nothing about fire rehire and they've done nothing about zero hours contracts Give it a few months Boris will give the director of P&O a peerage
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  334. @Mr Right how so there the true patriots not the faux flag shaging Tories
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  335. Oil and gas are traded on the world commodity market and receive hundreds of billions in subsidies. During the current energy crisis the UK energy sector will make 170 Billion in EXCESS profits all that comes out of our pockets including the tax breaks. And Renewable energy has been the cheapest on the grid since 2019 we are getting completely scalped
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  336. What gives him the right to behave like an entitled Pig Tory boy
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  337. I thought bringing back serfdom was part of Truss's platform?
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  338. Renewables are cheaper the Nations getting there 1st will have a huge competitive advantage in the world economy
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  339. No it won't Labour will win the next election and reverse the non alignment so we can trade freely again the EU where more than Happy with May's deal
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  340. glad your willing to have higher energy and food prices just to stick it to some eco protestors Oh wait there trying to save us money ? how odd the media campaign don't point that out
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  341. Cummings should never have been hired, Boris is a clown show but the vote leave people he surrounded himself with are way off the charts libertarian ultra right wing No deal at any price
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  342.  @bradlangston36  all the gob from the Tories is about asylum seekers 80% of which are granted refugee status, the numbers on the boat people are even higher at 90% The current government haven't a clue how to deal with it so break the system which then swallow huge gobs of tax payers money trying to sort the mess out, the Rwanda thing will cost based on Australian figures about 1.6 million per refugee. We need a sensible discussion on migration and asylum not endless rounds of political theatre with huge bags of public money thrown away to prove how tough mean and fkin clueless the current government is.
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  343.  @GIBBO4182  Education isn't a SUNK cost stop parroting right wing media narrow minded stupidity. Straight from an economics textbook Why Is Education Considered an Economic Good? Education tends to raise productivity and creativity, as well as stimulate entrepreneurship and technological breakthroughs. All of these factors lead to greater output and economic growth The right wing in this country make it a mission to dumb down and cherry pick facts to promote a narrative which is misinformation at best and propaganda at worst
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  344. Wind is 17% of the mix the issue is storage there isn't any including decommissioning our LNG store we've no way of storing spare wind either the words sighted and short come to mind
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  345. Anyone but the Tories will fix this by processing the claims deporting the 40,000 illegal claimants and saving 8 billion in the process as well as cooperating with our neighbours to reduce the numbers
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  346. 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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  347. A sure fire nailed on vote looser, I don't want my son doing national service or providing slave labour on a weekend where's the money coming from for this and we have around 1/2 a million young people in the age range Brain Farts or what
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  348.  @aidandesilva  The last 5 years have been the worst under 1 Parliament in economic history with a real average disposable income falling by -4.2% GDP per Capita has seen the economy in recession for 2 years.
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  349. @britnatzaredemocracydenier5922  I agree more devolution + real leveling up including Scotland make Glasgow and Edinburgh part of the northern powerhouse with a proper transport network
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  350.  @michaelgoulding6609  my brother left 7 years ago lives and works in Norway I'm retired but a lucky enough to have dual citizenship because of my dad so aren't hit with the 90 day rule The whole thing is a complete cluster fk
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  351. The UK energy market will make 170 Billion in excess profits over the next 2 years because we are tied to gas for electricity generation and the government refuses to implement a proper windfall tax The government are also giving billions in subsidies to the fossil industry and renewable energy became the cheapest on the grid back in 2019 it is currently x2.5 cheaper than coal and nuclear If we don't address the climate crisis we will have mass immigration on a level that makes the current problem look like chicken feed
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  352. Why would anyone in their right mind give up their human rights? The ECHR is the last bastion of government overreach, the trafficking isn't solved by NIMBY cruelty
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  353. They support PR it's 1 more policy I agree with over the Tories which at current count stands at zero
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  354. Britannia Unchained Therese's no chance the party may force her though dunno if this mini budget would even get through parliament, if I was Sunak supporters I'd refuse to vote for it
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  355. A £1 spent on green infrastructure returns £1.6 in gdp growth Not going green is estimated to cost double the cost of remaining on fossil over the medium term
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  356. By switching from Supply Side Trickle Down economics aka Thatcherism Blair did it a bit not enough though we saw 3% Growth +25% wage growth over his decade and well funded services
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  357. wasted vote we need the Tories out
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  358. Gas prices are down Doris promised in 2016 if we'd only vote for Brexit Errrrr sdid he mean down the pan
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  359. If they changed the rules then Nige would have to give up his lucrative GBN contract stuff has been declared so what?
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  360. Pathetic whataboutism Tory boy My father fought in ww2 he didn't behave like an entitled pig
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  361. The Markets are selling off gilts and bonds adding +18 billion to the cost of government borrowing and will continue to dump UK bonds 'Uninvestable' UK Market Lost £300 Billion in Truss's First Month bloomberg news › articles › 6 days ago — Sterling-denominated, investment-grade bonds have lost £26 billion over the same period, dragging down the market value of a Bloomberg index ... Truss and Kwerteng need to go and the Tories need to appoint an adult yesterday Rishi Sunak predicted U.K. economy meltdown under Liz Truss Sunak warned Truss's tax cuts would damage the U.K. economy.
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  362. It was known a decade ago the Road Haulage association has mentioned it to government more than once. It takes about a year for HGV driver to be regarded as fully competent And our shortage is acute accelerated and magnified by Brexit with the Pandemic acting as an accelerant to the Brexit damage
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  363. Clue is in the name Whip part of Mistress Patel's dungeon no doubt
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  364. Except she is far right and has been for decades
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  365. The future of power isn't just big power stations its backbone will need about 40% distributed in millions of small areas generating and storing power. Your solar is part of the grid your car is part of the grid small scale wind is starting to come on stream new tech which harnesses tidal power etc. Plus other innovative solutions as well as insulating homes and upgrading to triple glazing
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  366.  @Bob_Brown  What identity? we've been importing labour at the bottom end of the market for like forever and had opportunistic politicians stir up xenophobia about it at the same time. The current government are importing labour on the quiet from the Philippines and Indian sub continent then lying to your face there doing something about migration. Its just theatre and bloody expensive at that the AUS scheme cost 2 million per migrant
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  367. The issue is prioritising peoples time and effort to get refugees out not have a VIP lane ala Covid contracts to import dogs from Afghanistan
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  368. They knew that when they elected him as did a group of the population Something like this was inevitable I warned anyone that would listen in 2019 most didn't believe he could be that venal corrupt entitled and incompetent and to be fair he's even worse than I thought he would be a low bar that he's limbo-ed under easily
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  369.  @SpudsF42  the current economic shtshw is a combination of Austerity and Thatcherism by not doing either things will improve
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  370. Wage suppression in the public sector for 14 years depresses the whole economy It's a false saving that has also turbo charged migrant workers in public sector jobs People kept voting for more pain
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  371. No he's not he's tying the uk energy market to fossil because he's visionless and lazy Over the current energy crisis the uk energy market will bleed 170 billion out of uk consumers in EXCESS profits. Why because we're tied to world commodity prices and don't have enough renewable in our energy mix + where the worst insulated country in Europe
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  372. It's just political posturing I'm 67 the Isrealies and Palestinians have been at war since before I could vote
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  373.  @paulgibbons2320  No they haven't volumes are down UK trade volumes suffer record five-year decline Financial Times 1 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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  374. It certainly is and that's why this is a non story
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  375. Wind is 17% of the mix the issue is storage there isn't any including decommissioning our LNG store
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  376. The estimate on Asylum costs was 5 billion turns out its 7.5, Rwanda reported to parliment as 400 million now 750 and rising to 10 billion. Last year they borrowed 130 billion, the uk books are in a complete mess
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  377. The Ukrainians are always talking peace the only peace language Putin understands
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  378. The free money isn't the issue its where its all trickled up to basically the wealthy and there not subject to interest rate pressure it needed taxing out with a wealth tax
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  379. ​ @George57 debt is 2 trillion + Rest of the comment is fairly accurate though
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  380. Levelling up died with the HS3 project being scrapped its been parred down now to some pork barrel policies aimed at shoring up Tory wins in the last election
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  381. Try get some more education instead of blowing off with right wing media stereotypes
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  382. US has the highest growth in the G7 along with Canada and its also trying to move strategic industries back to home soil for security purposes
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  383. He had a second job 150,000 for 2 days a month nothing to see here
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  384. Johnson's hard Brexit has destroyed the on-demand supply chain no one in their right mind would set up in the UK now And Blanket tax cuts DO NOT CREATE GROWTH 2015 Cameron Tax cuts GDP to debt went from 62% in 2010 to 92% in 2019 its now 99% its expected to be 103% in 2023 all that happens is it goes on the UK credit card and we get fk all for it while they wine about cutting costs and screwing over workers as the wealth gap expands. We've had a stagnant economy for 13 YEARS with this sort of nonsense
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  385. listened to an analysis of focus group when they mentioned Rishi's pan everyone laughed
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  386.  @tonyjefferson3502  There are no subsidies for wind turbines that's not how the energy market works The various suppliers buy energy on a forward contract price the government can guarantee that forward contract price like they have done with Hinkley C at currently 100p + per kilowatt hour. Average forward contract price for renewables is around 40p per kilowatt hour and gas hasn't been that cheap since 2019 Coal is more expensive than Nuclear last I looked Tax breaks are subsidies to an industry, Norway has produced slightly less Oil from its fields yet over the years has collected 500 billion more in tax from them than the UK. Everything a government does has an economic multiplier for example investing in a bridge will generate > 1 if its in the right place generating enough additional GDP to offset the cost of the infrastructure that is no different for tax breaks. In this case the economic multiplier for fossil subsidies is around 0.5 so for every £1 the government gives away in subsidies it only generates 50p in additional GDP with a deficit cost of -50p.
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  387. no were not highest denomination is Atheist at 48%
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  388. They've been offered 4% and the government refuses to negotiate most watchers think 9/10% would be a fair offer at the momment
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  389. Its a lot of money to waste on poking the voters for the Tiverton and Wakefield elections Its all about optics nothing to do with getting the job done, what headline can we get today
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  390.  @chrismurphy6070  fastest growing economy in the G7? Oh yea 2020 saw -11% 2021 saw +7% so -4% over 2 years funny they donwant to mention the -11%
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  391. ​ @T5Zplayer it was a lot better than it is now. If the country is to recover from this tory mess it needs an integrated transport system like every other European country
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  392. Big Dog couldn't last 12 hours without getting embroiled in another scandal The hand of Mogg strikes again or does the whole downing street flash mob have zero self awareness of what there doing?
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  393. Carrie has got a gagging order Fnarrr Its cost 2 Peerages so far wonder if she gave them a quickie for being good boys
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  394. It's not in the same state as 2010 our economy 18% smaller and tax has risen by 33% with our currency devalued by 30% against the Euro and average people now -10% worse off and debt is + 2.4 trillion up from it's 2010 total of 800 billion with 5% interest rates
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  395. Leading the fight for Democracy? The current cabinet have rammed through measures to Suspend competitive tenders for government contracts leading to vip lanes for Tory donors and billions wasted Are suspending our rights to protest and criminalising anyone that does Removing the right to a jury trail Removing citizenship at the whim of the home Secretary Propose to suppress voting with voter ID Gerrymandering parliamentary districts to give a Con majority with only 36% of the popular vote Allow for stop and search for no reason Introduction of pork barrel politics threatening backbenchers with funding withdrawal if they don't vote the right way and pushing funding to Con held seats only The removal of single transferable voting where its currently implemented. The current cabinet look like a screwed up mafia family led by Don Johnson the Toryfather
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  396. I wasn't a Corbyn supporter but when his ex showdow chancellor sounds more sane than the current Tory one then the Conservatives have gone into a terminal death spiral. Trying to force Supply Side Economics with debt at >100% and the current crisis caused by Corporate Supply Side inflation on inelastic essential energy supplies is akin to a deathwish. the BOE has to keep hiking rates up
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  397. @Educat ional Non EU Migrants benefit the economy by +32,000 pounds in taxation on average over a UK born taxpayer
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  398. @Educat ional Government analysis by the OBR Taxes will have to rise if Brexit brings strict curbs on EU workers because they pay far more to the public purse than British-born residents, a study warns today. Migrants from the EU contribute £2,300 more to the exchequer each year in net terms than the average adult, the analysis for the government has found. And, over their lifetimes, they pay in £78,000 more than they take out in public services and benefits - while the average UK citizen’s net lifetime contribution is zero.
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  399. Yup I support them paying their taxes
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  400.  @eclark3849  under labour NHS staff had real pay increases 2010 to 2019 saw public pay decline in real terms by -4% at the same time public debt went from 62% gdp to 92% and the beneficiaries? Corporation tax went from 28% to 19% millionaire billionaire wealth doubled during the pandemic and home prices are something like 9 times average earnings.
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  401. 20,000 a year and they have a backlog get your finger out of your arse and process them 20% are deported as illegal so 16,000 Are the Cons not embarrassed that there so frikin useless?
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  402. There are no benefits to having everything 20% more expensive than 2 years ago and If your remortgaging your still on to get absolutely hammered for the next year or so
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  403. He made the wind blow harder for a month in the channel believe in Brexit Jesus its all they have
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  404. 300 million mother of all dead cats but hey if it screws Rhishi over I'll watch the tw*t has already cost my household +1800 in extra tax & doubled fuel bills
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  405. the last NI cut affected those on 36k - 50k with a few quid at best Fiscal drag has put tax up for most adding 30 billion while the NI cut cost 9
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  406. Take London out of the figures and the economy looks like the one we feel a raging skip fire with everything crumbling round it
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  407. Anyone promising tax cut in the Con leadership is lying, stupid or in bed with the Billionaires prepared to heap yet more debt on the UK 2010 debt to GDP 62% 2019 82% (Cameron's tax cuts for the rich + 20%) 2022 100%+ Most of the talk is about cutting business tax anyway its crude untargeted ex BP don't need a tax cut but green tech could the bill would be 40 Billion and wouldn't stop rampant inflation Economics lesson to cut inflation raise taxes (preferably on the rich and on super profits eg Oil) raise interest rates 50%+ of the current inflation is Companies making more profit, the top 50 companies increased profits by over 12.5% Rents are up 15% how about a fuel cap and rent freeze?
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  408. The bulk of the public are low information voters, among my friends sho are tech workers non of them have a clue about government economics and there moderatly informed.
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  409. It's not a lack of ambulances there getting stuck at A&E Heard an ambulance driver on a phone in there only getting through 1/2 calls because there stuck waiting to unload patients to severely overloaded A&E departments they used to do 5/6 runs a day
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  410. What was he being bribed to do?
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  411. Buying more equipment to speed throughput
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  412.  @frishter  My pension has gone up and as a family were better off my son has had a decent rise because of the minimum wage hike. Under the last regime as a family our disposable income fell year on year because of wage suppression, increased taxation and brexit.
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  413. Reeve was endorsed by Mike Carney, internationally recognised as a leading light in the banking world. Starmer was endorsed by the Conservatives and given a peerage for his outstanding work in the DPP. Miliband regarded as one of the leading thinkers on net zero
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  414. Never a true word
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  415. The rest are promising corporate tax cuts to get the Media Barons and Tory Donors to back them Corporate tax cuts would be paid for by more DEBT and higher inflation while clamping down on public sector pay. Look its a case of least bad option and who won't totally fk the economy funnelling money to their rich mates
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  416. They'll reform council tax, its being talked by every think tank outside Tufton street
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  417. Since when is it settled they only ever had a mandate to leave the EU not the single market or even remove FOM any such radical course should have had a second referendum Also it should have been with a binding majority in all 4 nations the reason this shtshw will continue is NI and Scotland didn't even vote to leave which will cause the disintegration of the Union
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  418. Net Zero and the energy crisis Quote -The OBR concludes: the debt impact of future volatility in gas prices is at 13% of the UK gross domestic product (GDP) to 2050. This dwarfs the debt impact of 6% of GDP for investing in net zero. Second, it investigates the potential of new, growing energy solutions to cushion price volatility. Quote - With the energy price cap below £1,300 throughout 2021, UK households spent around £30 billion on energy during the year. In 2023 the projected spend is around £170 billion. This is equivalent to more than doubling the basic rate of income tax from 20% to 45% or almost doubling VAT from 20% to 38%. Just over 6% of GDP.
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  419.  @nowisgodinyourlovelylife717  your thought process and model is too simplistic people aren't commodities it doesn't work like that. Look at it now we have a labour supply issue of over 1.5 million vacancies yet salaries are still going down in real terms.
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  420.  @kfhroe8262  Mutally that boat has sailed we'll have to keep EU food standards on the books and update them when they change. Days of making our own rules are over we're a third country a rule taker
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  421. The bulk of the inflation is corporate profits rising by an average of 12.5% Sunak is raising corporation tax to take some of the heat off that Truss proposes to scrap the rise which wile add gasoline to the inflation bonfire. There both awful but Truss is as mad as a box of frogs
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  422.  @tancho103  borrowing 2010 800 billion borrowing 2024 2.4 trillion
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  423. At least with Blair we had a 25% growth in average wages and functioning local services after over a decade of Tory rule we've had never ending austerity shrinking services and -3% wage growth. And yet people believe the Con BS
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  424.  @GardenandGreen  it's a fraction of the price of current energy mix but hey stick to your fossil manifesto
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  425. To beat the People traffickers the government has decided to engage in people trafficking Cost 150 million up front Cost for the charter flight £200,000 Its estimated that each deported refugee will cost the taxpayer an extra £600,000 nasty evil and heartless policy designed to be as cruel as possible instigated by a government devoid of ideas that are throwing this muck out to detract from their lying incompetence and car crash economy
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  426. He has 2 hopes of winning the next election Bob Hope and No Hope The economy has been completely screwed over, Brexit is an economic car crash and factions in his party are fighting over an alternative reality of magic unicorns if only we Brexit right and harder the ERG still believe in low tax even with 2.7 trillion of debt and won't let Sunak cut a deal over the Protocol He's already made mistakes this week no getting rid of Braverman and sidelining COP cause who gives a shyte about the environment Sunak Is a ex hedge fund manager the qualification of which are an economics degree and no soul Hedge funds are the leeches of the banking sector wrecking profitable companies by asset stripping debt loading and redundancies they know the cost of everything and the value of nothing
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  427. My generation got everything rom low tax paid for with oil money and asset stripping to tax free savings and subsided house purchase. At some stage the money runs out and do something as fkin dumb as brexit then it runs out sooner
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  428. All I can say is your a bit on the delusional side Sunaks speech was a mess no message just usual Jam tomorrow and I'm change even though I authorised cuts to RAAC Infested school budgets
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  429.  @stuartd9741  There not a lot take their constituency duties seriously, my own MP is typical of this bunch the only issue I have with him is he votes through whatever the whips tell him though to be fair he abstains from time to time. I've actually spoken to him on a number of occasions and the guy supported remain and is moderate though they all had to sign up to Boris's Brexit BS
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  430. ​ @telenNG last time Labour did this type of thing businesses used the corporate tax credit to invest in the businesses, improve efficiency and also increased pay by replacing low wage staff with more skilled jobs
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  431. They've committed to closing non-dom, windfall energy and private schools tax There also talking about more HMRC staff to collect the 42 billion that is currently owed but doesn't get collected for various reasons
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  432. The OBR concludes: the debt impact of future volatility in gas prices is at 13% of the UK gross domestic product (GDP) to 2050. This dwarfs the debt impact of 6% of GDP for investing in net zero
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  433. Liz Truss is batsh1t crazy, anyone believing in voodoo has a better grasp of reality than anyone proposing the magic of tax cuts. Osborne corporate tax cut cost 200 billion to the Exchequer increased economic activity by 0.5% GDP returning 40 billion which is par for the course tax cuts in general have an economic multiplier of around 0.2 Analysis showed that corporations used the money to buy back shares and increase CEO salaries on the back of it.
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  434. Apparently getting sht faced throwing up on the carpet spilling wine everywhere and leaving your mess to get taken care of by cleaners on minimum wage during the severest of tier 2 lock down regulations is just routine nothing to see here (well there was but the 10 pound an hour cleaner got rid of the evidence)
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  435. The gammons will desert the Tory party in their droves when the Cons get rid of Johnson which their going to have to do because if they don't they'll continue haemorrhaging voters from the middle class and moderates who think Boris is an incompetent immoral AssClown
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  436.  @cshartley101  there not in government so exactly how are they supposed to change national polocies?
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  437. It's not a solution it's a means of looking like there being tough but doing fk all Gammons fall for it every time
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  438. With 65k excess deaths any measure to stop a second wave is welcome though the old saying a stich in time saves nine appears to be alien to this governments philosophy of let's crash the car and see if the air bags work
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  439. There are increased costs all along the line Government policy has lead to us producing less food importing more Government does hard Brexit creating paperwork and red tape + haulage barriers Imported food goes up
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  440. Johnson's hard Brexit introduced huge friction in trade and the end of cabotage, the on demand supply chain is broken and on its knees, the last of stock piling pre Brexit has run out. The question is which domino is going to fall next haulage firms with 30% of their lorries not running going bankrupt? Or a steady decline in SME production due to material shortages leading to widespread bankruptcies? We have spent 50 years fully integrating our supply chain into a pan european market. We would need a 5-10 year plan to disentangle us from that market not a 5 minute plan written on the back of a cigar box.
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  441. Sunak froze it in 2023 it had been sliding since 2016. The freeze is till 2028 blame the unfunded NI cut
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  442. @Napoleon1123 He's worried about his offshore trust to avoid IHT on his millions
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  443.  @jamesbarbour8400  NI is just another Tax, the thresholds are frozen till 2028 it should be 15000 @20% and it doesn't affect the sharp rise in energy costs
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  444. It would prejudice a court case if they gave details, listening to a podcast the other day "The View" they were pretty disturbed by the allegations being leveled having talked to one of the victims (without giving details Remember when Raab was appointed the Civil service said he would not be allowed with a civil servant one to one they had to be accompanied
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  445.  @ImmuneGEORGE  I nearly took out an interest only mortgage to pay for an extension if your talking a maturing mortgage they would be on a rate that was near rock bottom 5 years ago. They have widely been withdrawn at the time the repayments were £250 a month but £500 on a repayment so its quit easy to see how it's gone up to £1000 if he's financed an extension with that type of product.
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  446. Borrowing to prop up gilts
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  447.  @jeffclements2254  At the height of the pandemic last year Trump was responsible for or linked to 60% of the disinformation worldwide on Covid he's a complete moron that would have been banned years ago if he wasn't potus. He is literally a constant stream of lies and BS coupled with any conspiracy he happens to pick up from Reich wing media.
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  448. No but the very wealthy pay it
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  449.  @soulsaver369  They have
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  450. Yes they've been shafted but the whole sector needs to change to more sustainable farming methods
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  451. I take it your employed by the fossil companies?
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  452. The only way to get things going is to change planning and build. Peak demand is in Tory heartland and get generation rent into homes, also link up Leeds Manchester Birmingham with improvements to transport then expand to other northern cities
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  453. basic questions such as?
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  454. doesn't make up for the 12 hour days the amount of paperwork and additional tasks since the Tories came into power is insane and that workload goes up as teachers leave the profession in droves
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  455. They reached price parity without subsidies this year and we've only just started the drive to economies of scale The 1st country to net zero will have a huge competitive business advantage
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  456. So Osborne's 19% tax rate cut Cost the Treasury 200 Billion in lost receipts while it was in place so how much GDP did it Generate? According to economists it generated around 0.5% GDP which = 40 billion in additional tax while it was enacted What did companies spend the money on if they didn't reinvest it well quite simply in share Buy Backs boosting Stock price which in turn got the CEO's record payouts. The economy was growing under Labour when the rate was 30%
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  457. its around 6 billion a year so like shouldn't we process them instead of making it worse
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  458. @Leonidthemighty the rich aren't mobile thier assets are extremely not liquid.
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  459. They never had a plan, they still don't have a plan On day one of leaving all small package business stopped that's hundreds of thousands of small businesses could no longer sell to 430 million people EBAY Amazon Market Place Website small sales disappeared overnight I have a brother in Norway I had to fill in pages of export forms to send him a birthday present SME's Farmers Fisherman have been totally fecked over by the Cons
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  460. Come the election (if they let us have another one) people will no forget I will be nocking on doors as will thousands of volunteers to remind them
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  461. Addressing Labour conference today, the Labour leader said GB Energy will be a company that “takes advantage of the opportunities in clean British power”. Labour said the role of GB Energy will be to provide “additional capacity” alongside the private sector to “establish the UK as a clean energy superpower and guarantee long term energy security”. Labour declared that a publicly-owned company is the “best way to ensure that the British people can derive the benefits from the power that we create on our own shores”. The party described the plan as a “pragmatic way to help deliver clean power at scale”. This adds competition to the market driving the cost down and nationalising it by degrees
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  462. Government money once put into the economy goes round and round creating taxes and benefits and according to the LSE it will cost a total of 0.66 billion by the time the merry go round stops and that's not taking into account lost productivity due to sick days because its getting to be such a shyte service From the LSE The headline Exchequer cost associated with this 10% pay bill increase was estimated to be £3.40bn. However, offsetting this cost, the aggregate Exchequer benefit resulting from this 10% increase in total AfC pay was estimated to be £2.74bn (or 81% of the initial Exchequer cost), consisting of: £1.60bn in additional tax receipts from AfC staff and their employers – with PAYE taxation, employee National Insurance and employer National Insurance offsetting 22%, 11% and 14% of the initial Exchequer cost, respectively; £0.89bn in wider direct, indirect, and induced tax receipts generated by AfC staff’s increased consumption throughout the entire economy – offsetting a further 26% of the initial Exchequer cost; £0.13bn in cost savings from the improved recruitment and retention of NHS nurses and midwives (equating to 21,790 service years over the period of analysis) – offsetting a further 4% of the initial Exchequer cost; and £0.13bn in cost savings from lower student loan write-offs for nursing students – offsetting a further 4% of the initial Exchequer cost. The net cost to the Exchequer associated with this illustrative 10% increase in the total bill for AfC staff pay in England was therefore estimated to be £0.66bn
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  463. But But Corbyn errrr labour 12 years ago Mmmm talking of 12 years ago e decade labour was in charge average wages went up +25% and we had economic growth 12 years of Tory missrule and look at it now what are we at -10% shrinkage in real wages? Zero growth?
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  464. @Slap-moore Cheeks yea right there both relentless focused and brutal when they need to be, there are 3 major trading blocks in the world and we're fking off all 3
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  465.  @redbeard3923  partly I could run my house and not use the grid for 90% of the time if I had battery storage just waiting for the prices to come down before I buy and install 1
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  466.  @jimskirtt5717  yes it is pollution is a huge contributor and its a lot easier to alter local microclimates by removing pollution also Trees, green roofs, and vegetation can help reduce urban heat island effects by shading building surfaces, deflecting radiation from the sun, and releasing moisture into the atmosphere.
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  467. for what ending her candidacy early what a dumb thing to say
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  468. True
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  469. Tory Ministers are appointed on how many of his faction he can put behind the PM nothing to do with ability, hence Liz Truss
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  470.  @curtisducati  On what basis we've had over a decade and a half of stagnation real wages are -4% on that period a feat not seen since the Napoleonic war the debt is ballooning and taxes are highs not seen since WW2. Added to that going through parliament are bills to remove the freedom to protest and give the police the right to strip search anyone for any reason. A bill to remove GB citizenship at the whim of the Home Secretary a Bill to remove the requirement for open tender for government contracts etc..
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  471. Stockholm Syndrome @earnestequivocation6250 
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  472. Modaunt is a proven liar she'll get shredded in debates
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  473.  @hendrix2430  Just did some reading up on it the general view is it would only affect higher rate tax payers, Hu nt Lowered the allowance from 12k to 3k As I said the last treasury report I've seen recommended 28% back when Sunak was chancellor. Leaving it at 12250 and raising the rate to 28% makes more sense to me By the way the roumors were the Tories were going to raise the pension age to 68 and make cuts to paper over the holes there were no good choices
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  474. A full Norway met the referendum conditions Leaving the single market was always going to tank the economy
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  475.  @michaelc3051  The Australian scheme costs 2 million per migrant Its all theatre anyway The current government are importing labour on the quiet from the Philippines and Indian sub continent then out the her side of their mouth banging the anti migrant drum.
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  476. Sunak spent Tuesday throwing feaces at the wall trying to make his bulsh1t stick in true Johnson fashion then doubled down on lying, he came back early to do an interview to lie about a lie.
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  477.  @maisiemoo_x  Their parents aren't though
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  478. Don't blame the Oil and Gas companies for government policy Thatcher sold off the North Sea assets Norway created a state company to manage them Norway put the money in a wealth fund for long term benefit which is now worth over 1 trillion euros and which was used the last couple of years to subsidise energy prices Thatcher pissed it away in short term tax cuts Sunak has implemented tax breaks for exploration and decommissioning old North Sea rigs and infrastructure the estimated decommissioning costs are 75 billion
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  479.  @nickrobinson7096  The rules where pretty tight at the time and London was in tier 2
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  480. they had to change the modelling to make it even be positive
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  481. Jeremy Hunt has been told Wednesday’s budget risks condemning Britain to a second “lost decade” for living standards that would leave working families £1,900 a year worse off. Alfie Stirling, said the prospect of a “second lost decade” would come after 14 years of stalling progress to raise living standards, including the failure to increase average workers’ pay substantially above pre-2008 levels after inflation was taken into account.
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  482. I thought it was a good one dovetailed with Reeve's speech yesterday Also Gave stark Contrast to the UKIP policy agenda Tory clown show of last week
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  483. We have skyrocketing corporate profits leading to Supply side Corporate inflation and the answer is to give them a tax cut to fuel inflation even harder and for longer? Has this women been smoking the Kabuki juice of the right wing think tanks that promote special interests for big corporations?
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  484. The markets had started selling off gilts and shorting the pound when mad Liz made the last 2 and the 45p rate was the straw that broke the camels back along with tax free enterprise zones and abandoning the OBR The real problem is the MP'S going along like a bunch of nodding dogs even after the BOE bail out everyone knew she was a Libertarian nut job in the thrall of the Tufton Street think tanks
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  485. We are coming off the back of one of the wettest winters on record, the Jet Stream holds +7% more water climate change means this will happen more often So how do we plan for these times why sell off the Water Utility companies so they can debt load to 50+billion and face bankruptcy if interest rates go up and Stick our head in the sand about climate change and say fracking is the answer as well as 1400 watts + vacuum motors
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  486. So in the last budget they found 2 billion for millionaire pensioners 8 Billion for Bankers by reducing the banking levy and 6 billion for shell and BY in subsidised exploration costs anything for the North and its FU
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  487. She's upped the the NI taper any small business employing 4 people on minimum wage no longer pays employer NI
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  488. Sunak gave a tax break of approx 8 billion to the bankers this is enough to fund a 10% pay rise for All public sector workers it takes effect in April 2023
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  489. I don't get that either the tax cut = growth myth has been blown wide open so many times its like a zombie dead apocalypse idea that just keeps rearing its head time and again.
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  490. Vaccine rollout is median not leading, the best rollout was Portugal and they used the EU purchasing scheme to pay a fraction of what our government forked out. Broke the Brexit impasse? He lied about putting a border down the Irish sea his cabinet lied about border checks they all lied about frictionless trade the results of which the fastest growing industry is customs officers and 3rd party freight shipping companies costing GB business in costs and lost trade. Billions funnelled into Tory donors for dodgy VIP contracts as tendering suspended The Tory party the Party of TAX WASTE and CORRUPTION
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  491. Worst economy in living memory 8 trillion onto debt and one of the major causes of the current inflation By the numbers +50% debt +40% balance of trade -3.6% GDP -3 million jobs -3 million without health insurance The US would go bankrupt with another Trump Presidency
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  492. Fish rots from the head down just ask Blojo
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  493. when people stop parroting bullsh!t they pick up off the media sounding like a whiny old women maybe they can man up and read up on Labour policy  @1milliondogs 
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  494. asset taxes, if your not in the top 5% then forget it sit back and enjoy better public services
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  495. By all accounts Boris got blind drunk at the party and it was one of those sort that had a few girls imported in for the evening. I did hear a rumour that they didn't tell Boris sensitive stuff because they thought he was a security risk
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  496. Your totally wrong about the inflation being to do with stimulus packages, costs have been rising since Brexit and the fuel is the main cause with the food shortages starting to bite, we don't have the labour to kill the pigs pick the crops package the chickens etc etc Leading US economist put 80% of it down to Brexit and and lack of elasticity in the labour market, we have the 15% dip in exports so were not going to grow out of it any time soon
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  497. 13 years of Tory Austerity turning the economy into a low pay trickle down shithole economy The latest budget 8 billion tax cut for bankers 2 billion tax cut for millionaire pensioners and a tax bung for the oil companies quote "New measures mean that the Government has committed to a subsidy of up to £5.7bn in tax relief for investment in oil and gas in the next three years. This lost revenue could have instead supercharged an energy efficiency drive, insulating two million British homes over the same period, with an average bill saving of £342 per household every year." Sunak when Chancellor saw nearly 60 billion wasted on fraud latest audit says track and trace wasted 37 billion Truss's Brain fart budget 35 billion Then there's PPE to their mates in the Boris VIP lane Greensill Capital and Cameron anyone When will people learn Tories are absolutely corrupt and completely inept at economics what have we got to show for the hundreds of billions wasted by the Cons over the last 13 years and that doesn't even look at the hundreds of billions lost due to Brexit
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  498. @dontbelievethehype9502  in 2016 our GDP was 90% of Germany's its now 70% Try the FT Reuters Bloomberg for your financial information not The Daily Fail Our exports shrunk by volume 7% since 2019, largest fall on record. Get out your bubble
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  499. Its spin the economy has had a bounce back after the hit in 2020 were still -1.5% down on 2019 6th out of 7 recovering economies in the G7
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  500.  @T5Zplayer  tying that blue scarf round your neck seems to be cutting the blood from your brain
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  501. The fish rots from the head down Bojo doesn't have a magic spell that will forever keep the Cons in power, there too afraid that this cartoon clown can somehow keep the Red wall. Those people lent the Cons their vote and the actions of this government across a whole range of issues will make them to never pull the lever for the muppet in the blue rosette ever again in their lifetime. The farmers are also seething the Cons had a collapse in the rural vote in Shropshire non of it connected to Sleaze or Partygate Such headlines as "Defra agrees to urgent summit with pig sector as crisis deepens"
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  502. 50 MP's of all Parties are under investigation for misconduct, this takes several forms the most prevalent is bullying in the workplace. Westminster is widely known among female Journalists as Pestminster as for Labour MP's being investigated for sexual harassment currently only the Tory sex pests have been kicked out or are under investigation by the police. They need a purpose built building while Westminster is renovated and mandatory Female quota's to get some professionalism into the place and rid it of the old boys club vibe. The Gender balance in the Tory party is unacceptable in this day and age and SNP seem a bit male top heavy.
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  503.  @Kikiconsilience  Businesses have had multiple tax incentives to invest in recent budgets
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  504. What a load of nonsense from someone who pushes a party that will instigate the biggest tax break for the wealthy in political history by raising the 40% threshold to 70k costing 60 billion
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  505. We need to stop using oil Norway has 93% renwables highest EV adoption in Europe and 3% inflation But That takes planning not Tory boom bust Economics Cameron put a moratorium on onshore wind in 2010 because? No fkin Idea
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  506. There useless there not enforced over in Europe what sort of fkwit would sack and jail a nurse There's plenty of ambulances the issue is A&E the turnround has gone from 5/6 runs a shift down to 1-3
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  507. What taxing me +£560 with fiscal drag then giving me £95 back Sunak is taking the p1ss
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  508. Keep up the Brown Nosing enjoy your +£1000 tax hike while eating your Turnip Soup
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  509. don't forget the Z list
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  510. your not keen on lower taxes better funded services and real wage growth ? That's what we had under Blair/Brown
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  511. Yea like who wants them spending money in the UK economy creating jobs paying tax
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  512.  @techstyle123  On the stupid ometer he's one of the worst he was on TV last night claiming experts don't matter they always get things wrong
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  513. I agree they need a meeting to get rid of these 2 assclowns (Truss & Kwerteng) and put Sunak in charge to calm the markets
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  514. staples like pasta are +100%
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  515. I can't wait
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  516. There's more to come out the papers and investigating tax wonks haven't finished yet He faces questions about an unsecured loan of 30 million to his wife and just by coincidence that's about what went into the offshore trust
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  517. There's about 1.1 million vacancies the tech sector is trying to grow but there's no workers no HGV drivers, Nurses, shortage of Doctors VETs Customs officers Policemen Butchers Farm Workers etc. So why's that then ah yes Johnson's Brexit and is anyone going to fix it No there just going to squeeze the economy into Stagflation well done Brexiteers happy now?
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  518. That's gone anyway the economy is Toast whoever they elect its just the damage limitation
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  519. the Minister in waiting post election
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  520. As the guy said Tax rises are deflationary and we know a part will go on infrastructure which increases gdp which in turn increases tax take
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  521.  @jjefferyworboys8138  Why we've had 12 years of economic stagnation and were into our second round of wage shrinkinkage? Masochism and forlock tugging in the extreme.
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  522. Food is 2.9% and will keep rising due to Brex1t checks feeding through the system
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  523.  @Benzknees  That old BS the wealthiest pay Fk compare to workers Quote Researchers from Warwick University and the London School of Economics (LSE) analysed anonymised HMRC tax returns of higher earners and found that the average person with £10m in total remuneration had an effective tax rate of just 21 per cent – less than someone on median earnings of £30,000.
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  524. He's on a warning from his lawyers for civil liability for the fiasco on the 6th and the senate nearly got caught and held hostage so Mitch isn't a happy bunny
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  525. so lets look at the BS oozing out here How much does giving a Public sector worker actually cost the Treasury in REAL terms Ex give a nurse +£1 the economic multiplier is around 0.81 at the last time I saw figures on this When the government gives someone a pay rise it claws back near 50% of that pay rise in income tax NI and student loan tax that money also helps reduce turnover which adds cost and reduces the requirement for agency staff (over 2 billion spent) The rest of the money gets spent into the economy creating a merry go round of spend and tax So total cost to the Treasury (and this is a lowball estimate ) 19p in the £
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  526.  @jjefferyworboys8138  we don't own it we give it away to oil & gas companies and also provide billions in tax subsidies for the pleasure of getting rogered Its traded on the world commodity market we have fk all power over where it goes and what price we pay
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  527.  @Bungle-UK  its not ours the Cons give it away to oil and gas companies including massive tax breaks in the billions it then goes on the world commodity market This isn't about energy independence its about grift the Cons got 3.5 million in donations from fossil related sources last year
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  528. Since Brexit we've had radio silence from the Tories all the existing deals became null and void 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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  529. Smashed the PPE argument? We were invited to join the EU procurement of quality fit for purpose PPE at a fraction of the cost we ended up spending instead we opened a no bid VIP lane to funnel money to tory Donors. The usual vax lie In total over a dozen EU countries have passed our supposed best ever vaccine rollout June in the FT - EU leads vaccine marathon after losing sprint Fastest growing economy in the G7 lie 6th out of 7th measured from 2019 to current Our economy has stagnated over the last decade and a half of Tory misrule real wages are -4% for that period and it will get worse as tax hikes and zero growth bite the country and the economy.
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  530. we already pay loads of taxes the money isn't the issue we need to rip out 50 years of trickle down Thatcherism out of the system, Brown slowed right down the inequality drift he didn't reverse it since Osborne the tax code has been butchered to favour the wealthy beyond recognition.
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  531. Johnson is a buffoon that doesn't care about the rules or lying? What's new? Oh his handlers in the right wing media have had enough
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  532. Nothing will pass through the commons he's done enough damage already He doesnt have any sort of mandate they won with 43% of the vote and he lied his face of to get that as well as using the media as a propaganda arm 5o smear his political opponents
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  533.  @taffyterrier  lack of we have a labour shortage
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  534.  @carolewynn9407  The green levy is supposed to pay for insulation and is used as a stick to try get generators to switch to greener fuel. At the end of the day it's just another tax what we should do is windfall tax the oil and gas profits and use the money to reduce the cost improve payments to the less well off and boost housing insulation targets
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  535. How about a serious discussion on immigration and economics on how it benefits the economy and helps pay for pensions and benefits through taxation The average migrant pays 32,000 more in taxation than someone born in the UK The average EU migrant pays 82,000 more in taxation than someone born in the UK All migrants pay an NHS tax EU migrants are more likely to be transitory The UK has 50,000 people migrating to other countries per annum The Birth rate is 1.6 it needs to be 2.1 to keep a stable population meaning we need 400,000 + net inward migration to just stand still The its all immigrants fault is xenophobic right wing tub thumping fascist crap - Discuss
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  536. why did he lie all through the debate disrespecting the electorate
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  537. Look why are people suprised he ran NO10 like a frat house, the guy has lied and cheated his way through his entire life and gotten away with it. The Con's knew what they were electing when they picked him it was done because various groups thought they could manipulate him and use his ability to win over the English Nationalist vote (the dregs of UKIP and the BNP outliers) into the Con coalition. He will continue to lie and cheat to stay in power as long as possible even bringing the whole party down with him, these stupid buffoons of Con MP's disolved the single parliment act giving power to the executive to call an election anytime and don't think Bodger won't use it to try save his own skin.
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  538. Don't mince your words mate give the Media both barrels there just as responsible for this ClownCar act as the MP's propping him up Get the PodCast "The Rest is Politics" Alastair Campbell and Rory Stewart chew the cud over politics Best political podcast on the market
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  539. ​ @user-ug8wx5er1w just by creating more doctors and nurses training places they will reduce demand for legal migration so yes things will get better
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  540. I true dat
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  541. Just an excuse to not invest stagnant britain stagnates further So fk1n short sighted its on a par with the RAAC and sewage scandals
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  542. because 600,000 where student visas pouring foreign money into the economy the other 600,000 came here to work because we needed them and we lost 500,000 through emigration + -350,000 of the population through a low birth rate
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  543. The issue is prioritising peoples time and effort to get refugees out not have a VIP lane ala Covid contracts to import dogs from Afghanistan
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  544.  @suchaone6395  No they won't they don't offer anything just chaos
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  545. The problem with Ambulance wait times is to do with throughput at the hospital, they have to stay with patients till their handed over. And Everyone has had cuts to social care by councils due to Austerity which further clogs up the system
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  546. Its fastest negative growth Fastest tanking economy in the G7 World beating Stagflation
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  547. Doesn't work in Australia it costs 1.6 million pounds per refugee they also have a labour crisis
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  548. The numbers just don't add up even if by some miracle they got 2.5% growth all of that is gone already + more on a currency devaluation and interest rate rises which will further fuel inflation Plus Each point of GDP fetches in approx 8 billion to the treasury so +20 billion, tax cuts alone are 67 billion per annum in extra borrowing plus interest on debt repayment its like spend 70 billion to at best get 20 back complete madness
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  549. Pantomime Dame at this point
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  550.  @Johnwild6152  No it wasn't it had problematic language removed
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  551. He's centre left Blair was a Centrist
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  552. Sunak gave a tax break of approx 8 billion to the bankers this is enough to fund a 10% pay rise for All public sector workers it takes effect in April 2023
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  553. If this is Sunaks Flagship his fleet is at the bottom of the ocean sunk beyond hope
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  554. Sent out a twitter toll to defend a clown And they reakoned this bunch are the cream of the Tory party?
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  555.  @jasonthorogood  Labour are proposing an Agri deal with the EU to remove 95% of NI checks which will also do the same for GB farmers. Then there needs to be regulatory realignment and a commitment to joint standards.
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  556. He's still an evil Banker
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  557. ​ @stephenconway2468 estimated 5 billion on asylum real figure 7.5 billion, there's creative accounting all over the place the NI cuts were completely unfunded
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  558. 'Longest squeeze on wages since the Napoleonic Wars' It was the longest squeeze in 2019 yet people voted for more of this shyte 3 years on its even worse Granted the alternative was Corbyn but still
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  559. The costs are lower in NI food especially is cheaper and fresher
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  560.  @kanedNunable  I'm fairly well off and the Tories are bad for my finances so god knows what the average worker sees in these people.
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  561.  @lochnessmunster1189  Average earnings from 2010 to 2021 fell by -3% There due to fall a further 5% from 2021/22 So -540 on 18k and @ 5% that's another -900 in real terms
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  562. Sunak is suffering from long Boris and the dirty deals he did to become PM
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  563.  @Billywoo12  try reading the FT not the daily express Our economy is completly fked, what's keeping the headline figure from going negative is 2 million visas issued in 2 years and a slow pickup on the service economy which affects the City and South East only. From 2020 through to last quarter gdp per Capita fell making us all poorer the deepest recession since the Napolionic wars
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  564. @Billywoo12  in 2016 our currency lost 30% of its value long term investment started drying up - the sort that plans 5-7 years in the future From the FT 2023 trade by volume hits record decline of -7% over averaged 2019 levels. Just to point out that the City and its service economy accounts for 25% of UK gdp so this number is catastrophic for the regions, SME'S employ 60% of the private UK workforce with trade barriers of what is a near no deal brexit crushing their exports.
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  565. Head over to Labour Social on YouTube there's a series of videos explaining them
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  566. People are fed up of his crime spree
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  567. Food inflation is still at 10% and will continue to be a problem as long as were outside the single market 2 years on were still reliant on Gas for energy rather than turbo charging our move away from volatile world fossil prices weve gone the other way
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  568. The HOL is turning into a clown show with the appointment of so many unqualified people the latest is a Johnson SPAD and Naddine Dorrie we even have Lord Ledvedev of Siberia Look the Tories are taking the piss its time is done
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  569. ​ @Mick37364 there isn't any difference between Reform the Tories and UKIP after last week's conference
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  570.  @Gambit771  and whys that because he went to Eton treats women like dirt and hob nobs with Russian Oligarchs
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  571. ​ @nunyabuziness9622 Ahh Trussanomics how did that go last time?
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  572.  @beanoboy62  Given the current economic shtshw is a combination of Thatcherism and Austerity by removing trickle down and improving the supply of energy Food Housing and Labour things will improve The current immigration system isn't fit for purpose we need bricklayers and joiners not management consultants
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  573. How exactly? We have the highest tax burden since post war reconstruction The lowest wage growth over the last decade since the Napoleonic war One of the highest death rates per 100k in Europe And a chumocracy in charge who are filling their boots with public covid cash with no bid contracts By all metrics this is the worst government this country has ever had
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  574. When I went to university we got a grant,my education turned me into a higher paid tax payer which contributed not just to the overall growth of the economy but my spending power enhanced local businesses Don't be ignorant and get sucked into the narrow-minded thinking that everything is a SUNK cost.
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  575. Which lie there are so many in this Tory government.
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  576. It's got nothing to do with either Trump or Biden in the short term energy policy evolves over a decade or more and the US while having a fairly centralised grid in terms of East and west has a privatised utility market at the state level. What your experiencing is the volatility in the fossil fuel market and the for profit utility monopolies gearing only for expected capacity because private companies don't want to invest in over capacity for worst case demand.
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  577. They lost 100 tanks yesterday on a counteroffensive to western supplied artillery plus god knows how many troops and other vehicles even by Russians standards that's some sort of dumb record
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  578. 2010 debt to gdp 62% 2019 debt to gdp 92% Current debt to gdp 100% Gdp 2010 2.6 trillion Gdp 2023 3.1 trillion 2010 figure put into the BOE inflation calculator = 3.6 trillion 13 years and they've shrunk the economy crippled public services and pissed billions away in trickle policies funded by public debt the useless fakers couldn't run a bath let alone the economy
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  579. I think reforming planning will have a huge impact Labour will have to tackle tax there's no other way of generating the money they need @kellypaws 
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  580. Why would he want that? your comment makes zero sense
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  581. He's pitching to the Centre left and keeping the door open to the centerists as well as promising stable government to the Centre right The Tories have gone full UKIP with endless populist guff veering even further right.
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  582. Musk and other foreign billionaires have put upwards of a billion into the Trump campaign now that's what I really call election interference
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  583. No they were convinced Jesus would save them and GOP have peddled climate denial on an industrial scale
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  584.  @muckraker7942  transportation is a service it has a net economic benefit to the country as a whole. They will generate way more in addional taxation to the areas they pass through and go to and from than they cost. Also government spending injects money into the bottom and middle of the economy by the time the ta x wheels stop it costs the treasury 20p in the Pound
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  585. Tax the poor give to the rich the Tory way Bet the pre election tax cut will remove the higher rate
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  586. It's not uncontrolled legal migration is by design Thatcherism at its finest
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  587.  @T5Zplayer  quote electric arc furnace (EAF) steel production installations planned and underway in Europe continues to grow. Most often citing decarbonization—the effort to reduce or eliminate a reliance on coal or other fossil fuels—the investments are joined by other projects where basic oxygen furnaces (BOFs) will continue to be used, but hydrogen or another fuel largely will replace coal
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  588. ​ @jake751 since when has Reeve put out anything that's neoliberal? Her Mais speech trashed Thatcher and Blair in equal measures
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  589. what anger the anger the majority feel at 1/2 a billion p1ssed up the wall on a propaganda stunt, your well out of touch
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  590. The issue with Green energy plans isn't the financing any investment has been calculated to return £1.6 for every £1 invested its planning and GRID rollout. The planning system needs changing before ramping up spending on net zero, that includes removing the On-shore wind ban  @MrTzimisces 
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  591. Don't forget making all the UK sheep farmers unemployed Thatcherism at its finest
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  592. And it was all Labours fault
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  593. Enhanced education is good for the economy it allows it to grow turning people into higher rate Taxpayers
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  594. ​ @craigjohnson8240 Blaire / Brown +25% rise in average wages well funded services We actually have negative pay growth from 2010 and knackered services and economy
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  595. What open door policy? If your going to lie at least come up with something plausible Conservative supply side economics needs an unlimited supply side Labour pool to suppress domestic wages go do some reading on economics
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  596. No there not there backed up by IMF data
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  597. He's taking hundreds of millions from foreign billionaires like Musk and Theil he has zero morals
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  598.  @S-North  and your point is? There not getting paid by labour its a free world and Tory finances are littered with foreign money as well as ties through dark money flowing through think tanks Badenoch is enmeshed with US and UK based climate denial groups with opaque funding and recently recieved funding and benifit in kind for her leadership campaign GBN gives free media to the right wing in this country campaigning against Labour and is owned by a foreign billionaire.
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  599. What gives him the right to behave like an entitled Pig Tory boy
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  600. voting based on fake culture wars how sad
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  601. renewable energy is cheaper by a lot if we had more bills would be lower
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  602. Its a culture of bullying with Johnson in control its got completely out of hand because he has no morals but to save his skin on a daily basis Gavin Williamson - Nice school shame if anything happened to it Coercion is one thing running the Cabinet as a mafia operation is another The hits will keep coming because basically Boris is completely disorganised and has zero self awareness that what he's doing is unacceptable
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  603. The war didn't cause it Tory economic policies did Policy 1 onshore wind farm ban moratorium on wind removal of insulation grants failure to upgrade the grid for the next generation of power Policy 2 giving fossil fuel companies huge tax breaks for exploration and clean up of old infrastructure Policy 3 Hard Brexit leading to billions in additional costs for businesses across UK Policy 4 not taking out excess profits in windfall taxes (the energy sector over the next 2 years will make 170 billion in excess profits) Policy 5 still running trickle down economics (Bankers tax break 8 billion millionaire pensioners 2 billion everyone else +£1000 on tax)
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  604. 350,000 for the NHS No border down the IRISH Sea Oven Ready Deal The lies are endless so as well as the ABBA party this was probably the worst Quote Aides 'had sex' in 10 Downing Street party night before Duke of Edinburgh's funeral, reports say A number of witnesses reported seeing two separate couples become intimate while the rest of the nation couldn't see loved ones EndQuote
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  605. With masks it depends which one I use N95 the surgical masks are better than nothing
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  606.  @andylane247  stop spit flying everywhere
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  607. How she's an ERG nut job Brextremist living in Rainbow Unicorn land
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  608. Quote -The OBR concludes: the debt impact of future volatility in gas prices is at 13% of the UK gross domestic product (GDP) to 2050. This dwarfs the debt impact of 6% of GDP for investing in net zero. Second, it investigates the potential of new, growing energy solutions to cushion price volatility. Quote - With the energy price cap below £1,300 throughout 2021, UK households spent around £30 billion on energy during the year. In 2023 the projected spend is around £170 billion. This is equivalent to more than doubling the basic rate of income tax from 20% to 45% or almost doubling VAT from 20% to 38%. Just over 6% of GDP.
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  609. ​ @laurencesmith1435 borrowing in 2010 was 800 billion with the banking crash sorted by 2024 debt was 2.4 trillion and Truss had wiped out 425 billion from the value of pension funds 24%
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  610. ​ @bittyprettyone legal migration is a result of Supply side trickle down economic policy aka Thatcherism move to a model which invests in the UK instead of prioritising tax cuts and it will go down ALL governments are subject to international law if they claim they can bypass it thier lying- simples
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  611. ​ @happystarhappystar1477 we exploit the resources, no such thing as a free lunch
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  612. Pathetic whataboutism tory boy Labour have an independent ethics panel to refer all complaints too separate from the Shadow cabinet
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  613. If I made the effort with a semi detached house an ev with solar I could be energy independent with v2g tech Just park it with the stupid comments
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  614. I lost a years pension because of Cameron Lesson no 1 never vote Tory
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  615. It's not like this scandal is the worst doing the rounds Boris's loans with foreigner guarantors The treasury green lighting the head of the Sanctioned Wagner leaders meritless libel actions against a journalist Bullying enquiry into Raab
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  616. ​@damianbutterworth2434 if Labour had been elected in 2015 we wouldn't have had Brexit which has cost the economy around £1 trillion (330 billion in lost tax) and Austerity would have ended allowing school building programs to restart and other impacts on services. + The 5.5% negative drag to GDP caused by brexit would mean +44 billion in tax receipts which could be used for lower tax thresholds or improving services So no in any reality Labour would be infinitely better than this bunch of Tory economic Thicko's
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  617. Vote for a millionaire ex commodity trader one of the elite's pedalling Trussanomics ? your joking right? or your rich and want to make a killing in the market when the £ tanks
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  618. ​ @stevec6427 true The city has been tearing its hair out over the Cons eating themselves alive for 5 years and jumping all over the shop with brex1t
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  619. Were going to cut Taxes even though we just put up taxes on the little people and are running a debt to GDP ratio of 100% 2010 Debt to GDP 62% apparently we were bankrupt so the Tories said 2019 82% driven by Cameron's Tax cuts for the rich How do we pay it for who cares we'll borrow more print more the little people will never cotton on were screwing them over
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  620. Like who cares Johnson and his cronies are the worst bunch of thieving Bandits this country has ever elected
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  621. Even there getting sick of his 1 man crime wave also the Big GOP donors hate Donny
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  622. What's economic growth? Real average wages have gone down by -3% under Cameron / May and -5% under Johnson
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  623. Everyone I knew kept by the rules because it saved lives and didn't overload the NHS we were that close to going into triage where basically patients are left on stretchers to die or left at home without treatment. The office I worked in had us at home those that were in work were in bubbles so if 1 person went down with covid it didn't fetch the whole company down. The government exposed itself to the possibility of an outbreak taking out the whole of government 2 years on and your talking like it was nothing
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  624. It hurts the DUP feelings and let's not forget flags There also masochist and want the same sht economy that brexit is bringing GB also 5here stupid
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  625. Raise the minimum wage then and stop subisdising a low wage economy
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  626. Pathetic whataboutism What gives him the right to behave like an entitled Pig Tory boy
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  627. quote Over the last month the Gulf of Mexico has had record heat content with sea surface temperatures at 29-31C. This is like rocket fuel for hurricanes, supercharging them into the Category 5 storms Helene and Milton became. And what does the Orange one want to do Project 2025 guts Fema and outsources and breaks up NOAA Why because the GOP claim that both agencies are politicising Climate Change and want all reference to it removed from government lalalalalala
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  628. he is the true mister wibble wobble more U turns that a U bend factory
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  629. It's not like they couldn't go after Johnson for being a misogynistic Rake and having the morals of a slug who would screw anything then lie about it to his current partner
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  630. Pathetic whataboutism Tory boy
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  631. And the alternative is the h unts that did this in the 1st place Lesson never vote Tory Least worst option cause the alternative is way worse by a country mile
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  632. Why it will wreck UK meat farming with substandard products shipped from 1/2 way round the globe
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  633. She's an ERG nut job She'll take the country back to the dark ages like Braverman
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  634. The Prime Minister has many great strengths? What like lying and getting away with it
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  635. There's a worker shortage dream on
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  636. He's wrong that's why we're getting bled dry by the uk energy sector its been estimated that there taking in 170 billion of our money in EXCESS profits because We're tied to fossil fuel have the worst insulated homes in Europe and failed to promote renewables
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  637. Yea I'm bricking it over my offshore IHT vehicle to shelter my multi million pound home and investment income from tax how will little Johnny and Joanne survive on just a few million each
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  638. they need to close the tax loopholes + collect what is owed 42 billion was left uncollected in 2023
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  639. Park the crap renewables are cheaper by a long way and reached the event horizon in 2019 the government is giving out billions in subsidies to fossil to open up new oil and gas fields with zero tax returned. It's also subsising cleanup of old equipment to the tune of 67 billion Fossil is a multi national racket
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  640. Taxes are going up they conveniently forget to mention fiscal drag which has raised +30 billion last year and thresholds are frozen till 2028 your 12250 threshold should be 14500 if adjusted for inflation
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  641. Threat to what Centre right Con voters hate Farage for what he's done to this country
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  642. The roof on the building my wife work's in started buckling yesterday with the heat Homes especially aren't insulated properly.
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  643. I run mine off the Solar panels I had fitted last year and they do most of our house needs as well Solar thermal provides 75% of my hot water needs with a family of 4 Renewables are the future they became cheapest source on the grid in 2019 before the current energy crisis
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  644.  @amfearliathmor9747  China is on track to meet its 33% electricity consumption target from renewables by 2025 and could comfortably exceed it And we can base load on Tidal Use V2G technology to remove Peaker Gas plants for load balancing + there are numerous storage option coming or on the market I have Thermal Solar stores 300+ litres hot water The optimum wind mix is 55% the UK is only at 17%
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  645. So left wing crazy instead of right wing crazy Its a theory
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  646. If your going to lie at least come up with something plausible Conservative supply side economics needs an unlimited supply side Labour pool to suppress domestic wages go do some reading on economics
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  647. Just let them work while their applications are being processed (Blame Theresa May) and fast track the obvious ones (82% are given Asylum anyway) all the Cons have done is break the system
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  648. 90% of vehicles are already ULEZ compliant the people that got scared into voting Tory will overwhelmingly be compliant
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  649. ? why people hear rumours all the time latest is Boris had a Canadian hairdresser yea I know that mop is styled who would believe it
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  650. It's £300 give it a rest I'll have to pay for my ski pass at Xmas
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  651. Dumb missiles are a terror tactic only the ones they are using have an accuracy of about 1/2 mile there not going to have any effect on the war aside from make the Ukranians more resolved in getting back their territory
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  652. What negotiations? Cummings crew wanted no deal at any cost. Biden win has shutt screwing the NI down and the EU have out manouvered thier Singapore on Thames idea. All this lot have left is car park Kent
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  653.  @stuartd9741  from the start of this there are so many lost opertunaties, EU fishing needs an overhaul no go areas for costal day boats only and a more conservation based approach instead of the blunt instruments of my quotas your quotas. The EU themselves recognise the need for change but like the CAP reform is difficult without a catalyst.
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  654. Even at double its still half the cost of running and ICE vehicle
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  655.  @AlexLee360  your welcome
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  656. Quote Rishi Sunak’s ‘Austerity Bombshell’ That Westminster Won’t Talk About As Britain goes into recession, the Government is planning to double down on the same slash and burn agenda that first helped get us into this economic slump back in 2010 My feeling is they will narrow to the point Tories and Reform are on 13%
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  657. No it isn't its a do nothing don't invest in Britain strategy The reason where getting bled dry with uk energy companies making eye watering excess profits estimated at 170 billion is our insulation standards are sh1t and we stopped our renewables program under Cameron. It's no different to the RAAC scandal
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  658. we are hostages to trade gravity SME's in Canada will trade with the US SME's in the UK will look to the EU if it wasn't deliberately sabotaged
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  659. Honours for Partygate participants your hairdresser Carrie's dog walker some young SPAD then gongs to Mogg who lied to the Queen and Patel who got done for bullying It's a low bar that Sunak will sail under
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  660.  @Hogdog4343  Wage policy is nothing to do with the road haulage association it's a function of government. The Cons have gone for a free market trumps everything approach so no investment in lorry parks with sanitary facilities across the country no forward planning and training programs with government investment and when it all goes tits up blame Labour the EU and companies being too woke
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  661. Its a display of force to discourage Russian invasion as is the Reports of Nato supplying cutting edge infantry carry anti-tank weapons
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  662. It's worse than a joke here's why Your removing money from the working economy and shifting into the Asset economy where its stored as property stocks shares Gilts That reduces GDP and GDP per capita its the reason the economy is spiralling into a doom loop IHT paid for with benefits cuts will do the same your removing money that would 100% be spent in the economy and giving it to people who will spend 20% at most
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  663.  @itsme-gm9oi  By the way the Aus scheme this is based on cost 2 million per head
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  664.  @pg8835  there not foreign if there born here
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  665.  @dbfhorses  Queen is half German Phillip was Greek / Danish
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  666. Apparently 42% is the will of the people 96% of those asked about the C4 sell off said it was a bad idea but Dorrie has a mandate from the 4% to go ahead Lets not forget their biggest voter block is addled pensioners bickering away parroting anything the Daily Hate Mail and its ilk throw at them.
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  667.  @Noel-ji8nm  because there not going to run supply side trickle down economics Starmer's missions are based on the work of economist Mariana Mazzucato Mission Economy: A Moonshot Guide to Changing Capitalism
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  668. We don't have low taxes what the Cons are doing is taxing money made from work and ignoring money made from assets The rich get richer on 5he back of workers at every level
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  669. lower energy bills with British Gas making 950% increase in profits would be nice, a proper windfall tax would have brought down inflation as well
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  670. Lets not forget the Trickle down supply side budget from hell 8 billion tax break to bankers 2 billion to millionaire pensioners 6 billion to the fossil industry in additional tax breaks Sunak voted in 2016 to reduce CGT the budgetary office recommended it was raised in line with the tax code 2021 it hasn't even been talked about nearly all Sunaks income last year was subject to CGT not income tax he paid 22p in the pound same as a nurse on 37,000
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  671.  @rubensano4860  renewables are cheaper go look it up
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  672. no it wouldn't we went past Gas price parity with renewables in 2019 All there doing is putting off what needs to be done TODAY and punting it into the future same Tory inaction and in that future it will reduce productivity and kill UK competitiveness because it drains money out of the economy with every day of inaction @lonewanderer3456 
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  673.  @dermotmcglinchey282  A person on minimum wage gets about 20,000 the tax threshold is 12,570 NI is similar the effect on raising both rates and employers would be huge on these people
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  674. Plugging in EV's to a V2G system allows grid level load balancing at zero cost bar the software saving billions in standby capacity Octopus are all over this with good FIT and discounted off peak tariff. Did a refurb + extension last year added underfloor heating and double insulation, heating came on last night in the TV room only for the 1st time since April costs where around +10% on capital budget. A lot of net zero is a complete no brainer win win The blue wall will collapse with this level of stupidity they want Charging infrastructure and Solar + Insulation incentives not do nothing tory Bullsh1t
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  675.  @patriciaoreilly8907  what a condescending pile of tripe Poor woman from lower class makes good and we get this tastless mysognistc upper class bilge
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  676. The EU state aid rules are pretty loose, were never going to hit any of them under a Con government
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  677. He was trying not to get trapped lying Starmer has trapped the last 2 telling some right whoppers
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  678. Crock of garbage there all middle class and mostly affluent and the hate and religious groups are xenophobic racist and mysogonist like thier leader
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  679. So unless your in London or the London area then any measure of growth is meaningless Why do we care if the banking and service sector grew enough to mask the horror show that's playing out across the country as our infrastructure falls to pieces UK GDP = 3.1 trillion London GDP = 0.4 Trillion its growth forecast is 1.1-1.8% This is masking the regional economies across the UK shrinking and falling to pieces Quote The spending power of workers in some parts of the UK will still be below the level it was before the pandemic by the end of 2024, a think tank has warned. Pay, after accounting for rising prices, is set to fall between 2019 and 2024 in regions like the West Midlands and East of England, said Niesr. By contrast, it said London and parts of the South were "steaming ahead".
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  680.  @adriancarter825  since joining Polish salaries have risen to 2 1/2 times those in Ukraine so go stick your prejudice gas lighting BS where the sun don't shine
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  681. You'd not be surprised to know that Reform are the 2nd most hated party according to YouGov polling with negative 57 (Tories are negative 70)
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  682. ​@elkpaz560 he assumes a theory then cherry picks facts to bolster it. I'm of the sherlock Holmes school I look at all the data no matter what he does not he jumps to conclusions
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  683.  @michaelcoward1902  He refuses to acknowledge that certain speech is anti-semitic and argued against the findings of the report Rebbeca Long-Bailey got booted from the shadow cabinet for tweeting an article associating the choke hold that killed floyd was the result of police training with the Israeli police Guilt by association its no different to othering jewish bankers or businessman
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  684.  @DaPs166  BLM has nothing to do with Marxism please don't pedal ignorance
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  685. ​ @jaypatel697  your in for Austerity 2.0 the guy has no soul he's an ex hedge fund manager, the asset stripping vampires of the corporate world who know the cost of everything and the value of nothing He'll look after the City and leave the rest of us to rot
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  686.  @Jagan-qd5xq  his first mistake Braverman the longer the Right wing head banger is in the cabinet the worse it reflects on Sunak Cop 27 a huge mistake he may not give a shyte about the energy crisis and climate change but 70% of the voter's do getting your card marked with a cross in week 1 is not good. He'll stop the economy going down 5he toilet and be good for City Bankers without a renegotiated trade deal with the EU trade friction will strangle and kill our economy
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  687. ​ @Patrick-y4d1z the one that 80% of the country is in?
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  688. which you'd loose people support green energy policies, firstly because its better for the environment especially in towns and cities, secondly renewable energy is the cheapest on the grid in forward price terms and is 1/5 th of the spot price.
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  689.  @truckerfromreno  no it won't the EU will pull the plug on the Cooperation and Trade Agreement and we'd likely suffer targeted sanctions from the EU and USA Plus The re-emergence of sectarian violence
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  690. I've been listening to an interesting podcast called 'The Rest is Politics' Rory Stewart and Alister Campbell were discussing the Stormont elections and the history behind the Protocol give it a whirl Rory Steward pads out the machinations that were going on in the Conservative party at the time it certainly highlights what a load of BS the cabinet are spouting at the momment
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  691. we've already had Truss wiping out 428 billion of value off pensions with one round of unfunded tax cuts now your promoting another free market fundamentalist disaster capitalist for what reason? Is it the fact that he attracts the BNP crowd with their fake patriotism?
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  692. spineless sheep please
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  693. Why is this government making the asylum process as inefficient and expensive as possible? Could it be purely for political gain to stir up the masses?
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  694. How about we listen there protesting because the Tories have abandoned any meaningful renewable strategy. For the record there's around a 100 billion in fossil subsidies in various budgets. Renewables are 2.5 times cheaper than its nearest rival nuclear The UK energy sector will make 170 billion in excess UNTAXED profits over 2 years And The Tories are getting donations from the fossil companies
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  695.  @PNWAffliction  millions of birds die flying into buildings and get eaten by cats stop spewing fossil industry crap
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  696. The roof where my wife work's on an industrial estate started buckling and the fire escape expanded the much it to buckled and will need replacing Nothing is built for 40+ because it shouldn't happen
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  697. Yea right quote The government's planned transport spending for London will be £2,389 more per head than that in the north Screw the north they aren't going to vote for us
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  698. ​ @carmadme they still won't be able to budget the uk finances are a complete mess the autumn statement was fantasy land and the next budget will cause chaos with unfunded tax cuts. Sunak and Hunt are either deliberately wrecking the economy or fkin clueless
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  699. Its Per Annum not per week as well
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  700. There were 46 million paid to rail shareholders the privatized railway is a monopoly its a complete rip off funnelling money to the rich
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  701. Your p1ssing 300 million up the wall on 0.25% of the total number coming Also Its against the law Change the law and watch the fallout when they see the Good Friday agreement unravel and were in a trade war with the EU
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  702. Surprised the Mail didn't accuse her of crossing her legs in a woke way that seems the right wings new obsession going back to good old misogyny is a bit lame
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  703. It was set up to deter the re-emergence of fascism post war The only country to leave it is Russia over Ukraine so yea smart move not
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  704. And your reason is? More migration driven by Thatcherite economic policy? Wanting the economy to shrink further and your standard of living fall?
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  705. Why is he repeating global its European and were double the price of EU countries. Just tell the truth how hard can it to be
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  706. Most Labour governments have been pretty decent a far cry from Thatcherism which asset stripped the country sold off housing for next to nothing without replacing it and pissed oil money up the wall on tax cuts for the rich
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  707. Far Right and facts are like Oil and Water
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  708. Then the government would have to subsidize farmers and have an agri policy the Cons like to outsource everything
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  709.  @oldskoolmusicnostalgia  economists put the cost of Brexit at a 10% shrinkage of the GB economy, even the City will be unscathed the EU had 6 years to pull out of the UK For the disbelievers an example All road freight that used GB as a land bridge to Ireland now goes by ferry to the South, the EU gave Ireland grants to improve its Port and road network over those 6 years
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  710. In what way are they connected these are employees of the Labour Party and I would add Trumps nativist agenda and Tariff proposals will badly damage our economy
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  711. The average person is £1000 worse off than in 2010 thanks Tories a continuous gaggle of useless Conservative muppets
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  712. It's worse than that look up economic multiplier This is a quick synopsis we have a tax base of around 33% give a nurse an extra £1 1/3 goes back in tax the economic multiplier is 1.6 so ther is £1.60 additional economic activity that the £1 generates in the local economy which is also taxed. Hence economic stagnation
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  713. Brexit benifits bask in your sovereignty
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  714. He will remove the hundreds of billions in subsidies and the fields won't get explored
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  715. PFI was dreamed up by John Major and was a Thatcher era legacy policy of outsourcing which was finally stopped in 2018 The spending cost is 200 billion I'm not defending it I thought it was a sh1t idea by both parties, Reeve won't revive it there committed to in-sourcing where possible and she is also stated a shake up on how assets are accounted for because the reason this looked attractive is it off books the debt.
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  716.  @marumaru6084  I'm not blaming the Tories it was a Thatcher era legacy which Blair and Brown signed onto to get elected and should have been thrown in the bin. We saw a continuation of outsourcing with Cameron and the complete failure of probation service contracts. The most visible and spectacular show of its failure in G4S at the Olympics. and The most recent in 37 billion given out for test and trace. Both Starmer and Reeve are opposed to outsourcing and will in-source wherever possible and practical
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  717. He's deliberately trying to get zero seats is all I can think of, today he's just reminded pensioners that he screwed them over with the threshold freeze by +£550 in tax and saying he'll give £95 back, the guy is an idiot
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  718. Trump had Worst economy in living memory 8 trillion onto debt and one of the major causes of the current inflation By the numbers +50% debt +40% balance of trade -3.6% GDP -3 million jobs -3 million without health insurance The US would go bankrupt with another Trump Presidency
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  719. RMT workers average 30k there are multiple executives across the rail industry earning over 1 million all subsidised by the tax payer The fat cats are getting fatter so much for privatisation
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  720. ​ @Kwippy leave it out its only 42 billion chump change to the Brexit Ultra's who've fked our economy up by around 1 trillion since 2016
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  721. The Tories manifesto had Leveling up gone for most of us A taxpayer loan of over £118m is being handed to Canary Wharf to help elevate its life science offering and build new homes Net zero abandoned- insane subsidies for fossil fuel companies Get Brexit done - it will never be done HS2/3 we have a train that wont go to Birmingham or London
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  722. ​ @selenea7788 councils are spending near 1/2 their money received from central government on housing support due to 2 million council houses being sold and not replaced Whatever is done is to start the long road of repairing the damage done by Thatcherism
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  723. ​@tastypymp1287 Germany has 13 years of growth to back up on we've had 13 years of stagnation In 2016 our gdp was 90% of Germany its now 70% wages on average in Germany have increased 20% since 2010 The £ is worth 30% less since 2016 The EU gdp is now bigger than 2hen we left So stick your false equivalences where they belong in the BIN
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  724.  @davegreen792  That's because your either a Tory apologist that's been smitten by Con propaganda or part of the super rich that's fed off the r class during their tenures so which is it?
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  725. narr where towing it round to the Pacific so our Lorries can hop across to asia
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  726. The future of power isn't just big power stations its backbone will need about 40% distributed in millions of small areas generating and storing power. Your solar is part of the grid your car is part of the grid small scale wind is starting to come on stream new tech which harnesses tidal power etc.
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  727. What more than the 24% Liz Truss wiped off pension funds or the frozen tax threshold till 2028? quote According to a new report from the Pensions Regulator, the value of assets held by pension funds fell by around £425bn over 2022, equivalent to a 24 per cent fall in the overall value of scheme assets. “This fall in assets is primarily due to the loss in value of gilts, corporate bonds and property,” the report said. Asset values hit their lowest point in September, pointing to the impact of Truss’s fiscal event. quote Nearly 9mn pensioners paying income tax as frozen thresholds bite. The figures published today (June 27) by HMRC in its annual update of the number of pensioners paying income tax reported a 660,000 increase from 2023-24 when the figure sat at 7.85mn
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  728. Blanket tax cuts DO NOT CREATE GROWTH 2015 Cameron Tax cuts GDP to debt went from 62% in 2010 to 92% in 2019 its now 99% its expected to be 103% in 2023 all that happens is it goes on the UK credit card and we get fk all for it while they wine about cutting costs and screwing over workers as the wealth gap expands. We've had a stagnant economy for 13 YEARS with this sort of nonsense
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  729. What's Tory incompetence at not trying to get this resolved by negotiation and deliberately throwing gasoline on the fire by briefing the captains of industry to institute a pay freeze as well as instigating a public sector pay freeze. This isn't Labour's problem it's caused by economic Tory mismanagement
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  730. What spending plans? They barely had any and the Tories deliberately fked over the budgets by instigating unfunded NI cuts paid for by nonexistent savings on services.
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  731. There doing the Republicans a favour its a certain Democratic win if Trump stands his economic record was as bad as Hoovers back in the great depression era and it won't take much campaigning to point that out
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  732. Look why are people suprised he ran NO10 like a frat house, the guy has lied and cheated his way through his entire life and gotten away with it. The Con's knew what they were electing when they picked him it was done because various groups thought they could manipulate him and use his ability to win over the English Nationalist vote (the dregs of UKIP and the BNP outliers) into the Con coalition. He will continue to lie and cheat to stay in power as long as possible even bringing the whole party down with him, these stupid buffoons of Con MP's disolved the single parliment act giving power to the executive to call an election anytime and don't think Bodger won't use it to try save his own skin.
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  733.  @andrewlaidlaw7975  They've gotton better already Rwanda Cancelled Bibi Stockholm Cancelled. 3 new renewable projects given the go ahead onshore wind ban lifted GBEnergy going to happen as well as GB Rail
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  734.  @markgulvin9987  no there not there's a huge chasm in using debt to pay for tax cuts compared to infrastructure investment And don't talk bollox about health measures the 2 countries that did lockdown and vaccination properly NZ and Canada are looking ar 3% growth this year were stuck with 200,000 deaths and around 2 million long Covid sufferers worker shortages that are below 2019 levels and a tanking economy
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  735. So GBEne4gy is no different to what that the Tories are offering? Removing all the costly outsourcing the Tories have put in place, renationalizing the railway, closing down tax loopholes, removing fossil subsidies, taxing windfall profits and using the money to properly fund services
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  736. Why I've been getting the flu jab for years my colleges in the office were off work over winter on a regular basis
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  737. It serves a purpose because no one believes him anymore, the 1st time your caught lying then the Trust is broken by going into Johnsonion territory it reinforces the image of broken, weak visionless etc.
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  738. real average wage growth over the last couple of decades it would appear Blair has it by a good margin were currently sitting at -6.1% below 2010 average. 1990 £32,638 2010 £38,263 +17.2% 2015 £36,507 -4.6% 2019 £37,247 -2.7% 2023 £34,963 -6.1% @T5Zplayer 
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  739. No it doesn't Tesco for example spend 1 billion on wages and 26 on everything else.
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  740. There's one problem she's hopelessly incompetent @vinchenzo678 
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  741.  @Statueshop297  The HOL is turning into a clown show with the appointment of so many unqualified people the latest is a Johnson SPAD and Naddine Dorrie e've had Lord Ledvedev of Siberia Look the Tories are taking the piss its time is done
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  742. Ukraine has gone to full mobilisation of its population Russia has not and will not. Full mobilisation means every part of its population and economy is gearing for war, the troops trained 6 weeks ago can now fill duties on the home front releasing experienced personnel to the front line while still undergoing further training and so the cycle begins Russia is already at near capacity of what it can deploy and pulling stuff that's not been well maintained out of reserve isn't going to help much neither is sending conscripts to a foreign war zone.
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  743.  @gswiftgs23  so your saying just because Putin can't control the population and mineral wealth of northern Europe he'll set off nukes? Well over half his troops are conscripts and don't want to be there
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  744. The bulk of the current conservative Party aren't even Conservative The 2 main factions are English Nationalists (dregs of UKIP a few NF BNP policies in there for red meat) and the Libertarian bunch Truss, Mogg, Baker etc
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  745. Nothing he said shows that, the latest OBR report showed the extent of the fictional world of Tory unfunded tax cuts
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  746. SNP put in a motion to try stir up trouble in the Labour Party The CON's put in an amendment to Block Labour submitting one, they've do it all the time so no meaningful amendment goes forward and the whole debate becomes pointless on an opposition day motion. Well done speaker is what I say less of this political shenanigans
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  747. that's easy then get sex on the ballot, buggers came out in droves when women's abortion rights where on the line and the prospect of less nooky
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  748. Doesn't need any the guy is a grade 1 A hole guarantees a huge turnout for the Democrats and totally alienates younger voters
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  749. If back in Feb they had dropped the moratorium on OnShore wind and engaged in a campaign to insulate more homes and businesses we would be getting new turbines coming on line and have more homes using less energy. No VAT on replacement double glazing insulation products new efficient boilers solar thermal on the one side and overhaul domestic public transport to reduce demand for car journeys would be a better use of tax breaks
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  750. and why is that he comes over reasonable in interviews I'm OK with boring
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  751.  @RaRa-eu9mw  Flip Flopping on what they've not put forward a manifesto for the next election cycle . The only policy I've heard of with real meat on the bones is the renewable energy one and setting up GBEnergy. The Tories have been on such a big spendathon which ended in the international Gilt markets telling them to basically go swivel there will be no unfunded government spending.
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  752. How about a huge drive to get council house stocks back up so were not wasting 20 billion on housing support and giving young couples a place to have a family? No Just some twisted policy to throw red meat to the racists got it, no solutions and no clue
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  753.  @lillyshi2705  at the end of the cold war Russia the US plus NATO guaranteed Ukraine sovereignty if it gave up its Nuclear Weapons In 2014 Russia invaded Ukraine and NATO has kept its side of the bargain aside from that Ukraine was pissed at Russia and didn't supply it with spares and armaments for its expansionist fascist war machine
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  754. Why he represents all the Conservative party have become over the last few decades what's different about Sunak
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  755. GBEnergy and a green agenda taking back control of our vast natural resources is Rubbish? reforming the HOL and more devolved regional power breaking the London stranglehold is Rubbish?
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  756.  @davecross4493  there was a piece in the FT recently which showed the difference between Labour and the Tories in economic graphs its so stark even muppets on here would take back thier criticisms of Starmer, it shows the Blaire/ Brown era as the golden age of improving UK prosperity. The article is titled "Britain's winter of discontent is the inevitable result of Austerity" in the Financial Times full data backup graphs the works
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  757. The estimated total benefit to the UK economy from 2021-22 first-year international students over the duration of their studies was approximately £41.9 billion – up by 34 per cent from £31.3 billion in 2018-19. Enjoying our tax hikes are we?
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  758. If they went with the protocol and embraced it they'd put off a border poll for decades This is sheer political suicide as the damage of Brexit hits GB like a sledge hammer (economists are accounting for an additional+6% food inflation outside the single market)
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  759. When labour where in power there were 8,000 in the immigration system due to cuts changes to policy and sheer incompetence that figure is 80,000 with nearly half being in the system for over a year. It looks to me like its been deliberately broken to make a political soapbox issue out of
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  760. It's a complete WASTE of Money
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  761. Good point I did some digging into the figures on migration and other economic indicators from 2010 to 2019 we had + 7% population growth (imigration was much higher due to our low birthrate of 1.6 we need +400,000 to just stand still) -3% average wage growth Austerity that cut services to the bone at the same time as growing our in work population with migration So how did the Tories f*** up the economy that badly that despite record numbers in the labour market we had a stagnant economy for a decade millions in inward migration yet all the average Joe saw was falling wages and shrinking services? By the way for the record I'm pro FOM
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  762. ​if Labour had been elected in 2015 we wouldn't have had Brexit which has cost the economy around £1 trillion (330 billion in lost tax) and Austerity would have ended allowing school building programs to restart and other impacts on services. + The 5.5% negative drag to GDP caused by brexit would mean +44 billion in tax receipts which could be used for lower tax thresholds or improving services So no in any reality Labour would be infinitely better than this bunch of Tory economic Thicko's
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  763. Current legal definition, education is a marvellous thing Female human being; a person assigned a female sex at birth, or a person who defines herself as a woman
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  764.  @audreyhall6470  My generation got every tax break under the sun free University subsidised housing with right to buy and tax free savings with ISA's
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  765.  @David-uq6yb quote Labour achieve ‘record-breaking’ deportation figures Almost 10,000 foreign nations have been deported since Keir Starmer took office in July. A large part of this operation included charter flights to Nigeria and Ghana – both of which were the largest-ever return flights to each respective country.
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  766.  @frishter  inflation is 2% Under the last government were around 20k worse off under Cameron 10 k worse off
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  767. its only 20,000 a year of which 16,000 will be given residency get a sense of proportion its a population rounding error
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  768. @banedon8087  give it a break even the Cons thought she was a bigot
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  769. The price of food and non-alcoholic beverages rose by 14.9% in the year to July 2023, and Under the EPG the average annual gas and electricity bill for a direct debit customer with 'typical' levels of consumption is £2,500 from October 2022 to June 2023. This is 27% higher than the summer 2022 price cap and 96% higher than the winter 2021/22 price cap Thanks Tories
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  770. That's because the Tories invest in it for the median throughput not the peaks and troughs, We had the same problem when Major left office just not as severe and the economy wasn't falling apart
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  771.  @fabiennemitchell2371  The information I've found is we had a reciprocal safe country agreement with Albania through the EU, the level of migration currently is down to EU countries tightening ID card requirements for work and travel we have no such requirement so its easy for criminal gangs to push people into basically slavery in the dark economy. According to the Albanians these people aren't coming from Albania they've been floating round Europe for a number of years. We've also had endless cuts to policing
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  772.  @andyhawkins9541  Look up Rachael Reeve The Everyday Economy Million miles from hedge fund Tory Britain
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  773.  @felixplucker8450  Why do they want Batshit crazy, we've had crazy and chaos
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  774. Law enforcement costs money weather its nicking a shop lifter or enforcing health restrictions if there are no consequences then how will a government ever again be able to get cooperation in an emergency
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  775. The Tories will never fund it and it requires that your organised
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  776. ​ @korgscrew2000 the uk economy looks a good bet for investment with the Tory chaos over and a majority which can't be undermined by the left. + Chaos over the channel
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  777. it isn't but that's a different argument
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  778. 80% of it is self inflicted so a downturn won't cure the underlying economic problems that the Tories have created
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  779. There isn't much wrong with it, the Unionists want a hard border in Ierland never gonna happen I did a quick add up of the vote there's 30% die hard Unionists and 40% at best would get mugged into thinking the protocol has to go 60% of the vote went to parties wanting to move forward.
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  780. tax has risen in real terms by 33% since 2010, also they borrowed 1.6 trillion yet nothing works everything is falling tp pieces Question is what did they do with all the money, +1.6 trillion is double what the debt level was in 2010 now standing at 2.4
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  781. It's abnormally low compared to income tax and is being used as a way round paying tax, that shortfall has to be made up by people on paye
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  782. He wasn't at a top posh school he was at an assisted places school like me when the government withdrew the assisted places scheme they went private but still kept those people on who had started on the scheme
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  783. So your targeting migrants to stop People Smugglers? How's that work then do the 0.5% sent to Rwanda phone the people smugglers up and ask fot their mony back and in a fit of honesty they abandon screwing over vulnerable people for every dollar they can? Its like doubling trebling down on Stupid The mother of all dead cats thrown to the Gammons in a flailing attempt to save Big Dog meets hard reality and This government wants to die on that hill.
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  784. The current government are importing labour on the quiet from the Philippines and Indian sub continent then lying to your face there doing something about migration. Its just theatre and bloody expensive at that the AUS scheme cost 2 million per migrant
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  785. Honours for Partygate participants your hairdresser Carrie's dog walker some young SPAD then gongs to Mogg who lied to the Queen and Patel who got done for bullying It's a low bar that Sunak will sail under
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  786. The limit is 500k to relatives a couple have a 1 million limit + SIPPS are tax exempt to 75 so my son if my wife and I died tomorrow would get 1 million + our pensions tax free. This is for the super rich only I'm very well off and my son would be able to retire at 25 if we passed away @ricardosmythe2548 
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  787. your funny quote Five members of the Proud Boys, a far-right militia group, were criminally convicted Thursday for their role in planning the January 6, 2021, insurrection at the US Capitol. Four of the five face seditious conspiracy charges. Their conviction marks one of the rare instances in which federal prosecutors have successfully pursued those charges, and they could be a warning sign for former President Donald Trump, who is under investigation for his role in inciting the insurrection.
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  788. ​@user-ug8wx5er1w Poland will surpass our economy by 2030 Dumb statement really we lost 25% of our value against the Euro overnight
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  789. Yes
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  790. pretending the problem doesn't exist then paying 8 billion for the privilege doesn't work either
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  791. what utter tory drivel, the election is over stop with project fear save your breath
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  792. No it doesn't that was ages ago
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  793. @jenniferjuniper12  don't be stupid and say stupid things whataboutism on steroids
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  794.  @none-d3c  The US is being undermined by Conservative Christian Fascism
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  795. Pontificating about people's personal lives she may as well hang her boots up now her candidacy is over
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  796. The last time labour did this pay rose and businesses became more efficient and less reliant on cheap labour
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  797. ​ @sylviabaxter265 Starmer is offering a centre left agenda that will accommodate the centerists and offer the centre right stable government In stark contrast to the Cons who are racing to the right to try out UKIP Reform with batsh1t policies
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  798. No it isn't the same all over the world no one else is planning to borrow 200 billion to stuff it in the pockets of the rich. The numbers just don't add up even if by some miracle they got 2.5% growth all of that is gone already + more on a currency devaluation and interest rate rises Each point of GDP fetches in approx 8 billion to the treasury so +20 billion tax cuts are 67 billion per annum loss plus interest on debt repayment
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  799. He's as thick as mince your obviously unaware of his lack of knowledge on anything
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  800. If they want loyalty try being Conservative Going off on a Libertarian Free Market Supply Side uncosted government borrowing spending spree on tax cuts for the rich with no idea if it will work (it won't its been tried and failed many times) and calling yourself Conservative ? What plane of reality are we on again?
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  801. It's not just the one lie it's the industrial scale Boris spews them out at and politicians generally spin the truth, Johnson and now his cabinet just come out with flat out Porkies Ex Fastest growing economy in the G7 lie were 6th out of 7 Couldn't roll out the vaccine if we'd been in the EU - lie we were still in the EU medicine agency when we started the vaccine rollout we didn't leave the EU till Jan 2021 The list is long and seemingly endless.
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  802.  @MarkXHolland  it's way worse than I thought it would be the pandemic has escalated the free market fundamental ideology and taken a flame thrower to it, we are seriously fkd, there is no way back short term in the next couple of years. I used to work in IT large scale integrated projects the level of disconnect the Johnson cabinet has is breathtaking if they don't declare an emergency and deal with it asap were screwed companies up and down the country are just going to go bankrupt
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  803. There's something like 1.3 million vacancies we've had full employment for a while
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  804. ​ @Lynnpjjbdndji he's An asset asset stripping vulture capitalist that would sell sand to the Saudis if he had half a chance
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  805. They got a tax cut the NI taper increased taking many out of paying NI altogether
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  806. Last year we borrowed 128 billion this year will probably be the same so why are we Borrowing to fund Tax Cuts? According to Sunak Labour's plan to borrow to build 30 billion's worth of Energy infrastructure which would replace expensive Gas bought on the highly volatile world commodity which would re-shore Energy Jobs and Cut domestic energy bills is inflationary? But Borrowing at highly inflated rates because inflation is still 5% for Tax cuts isn't? If they pull this one off and get a poll boost then god help us all were still tied to fiscal Drag till 2028 which will remove 150 billion from anyone that works for a living
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  807. Yea right his lettuce liz economics are just what we don't need
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  808. ​​@sylviabaxter265 Starmer is offering a centre left agenda that will accommodate the centerists and offer the centre right stable government In stark contrast to the Cons who are racing to the right to try out UKIP Reform with batsh1t policies If your wanting a 3rd option join the Greens
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  809.  @greyvoice7949  which of Bojo's policies weren't ditched the second he was booted out The guy was completely incompetent but his agenda would have delivered a further decade of Tory rule if enacted, housing and panning being a really obvious one
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  810. Yea because obviously NHS hospitals were run like student halls of residence final exam party nights all the time, I mean it stands to reason nurses need to get sht faced and throw up on the carpets while the doctors were spilling wine on the walls they were that drunk. I'm waiting for the Toga party pics and the Boris led conga before I make up my mind about this ;)
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  811. ​ @colinpenaluna9268 no it won't renewable energy is cheaper it reached its event horizon in 2019 Fossil multi nationals get hundreds of billions in tax breaks Shell paid ZERO for 5 years flat
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  812. They would implement the Protocol as its signed into UK law and voted through in Boris's Oven ready deal The EU have already had meetings with NI officials and offered a range of improvements but the UK officials have not been engaged in anything but posturing
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  813.  @paulnewman3282  run the economy They,ve been promising for 13 years still waiting they've even managed to devalue the £ by 35% against the Euro while they where at it
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  814. more deregulation resulting in more mass migration, fracking and tying us to multinational fossil cartels no thanks
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  815. ​ @DANNY35870 reform won't invest in anything its more extreme free market bollox
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  816. Did a refurb + extension last year added underfloor heating and double insulation, heating came on last night in the TV room only for the 1st time since April costs where around +10% on capital budget saving on bills is off the chart in the £1000 at least over the year. Energy consumption on heating & hot water will be 10% of what I used pre the refurbishment. The UK has the worst insulated housing and public building stock in Europe  @Charlieb6308 
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  817.  @cshartley101  Exactly what core principles are those? They've moved from an unelectable out of touch leftie who's defeat has echoes of the Foot era. The Tory rags are non stop trying to oust him with lies and smears so they can yet again run against some out of touch leftie. All the buzz words your using are the same junk parroted against Kier by such publications as the The Daily Hate Mail and the Bun
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  818. Dogger bank offshore wind farm comes online this year it has a forward contract price of £40 per gigawatt hour the OffGem spot price is currently £200 3 years ago the the OffGem spot price £37 As a comparison Hinkley C will be £92 for forward contract
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  819. Truss is a shoe in for a Labour majority The same toxic brand of lies incompetence and boosterism as Johnson without the scandals, her trade deals with NZ and Aus are awful and a major contribution to rural voters switching to Lib-Dem. The worst of the cost of living crisis is yet to come and corporate tax cuts will further fuel inflation while exploding the debt
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  820. And Farage going over funded by dark money isn't? These are just volunteers
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  821. And this is why they will pay IHT because the Clarkson's of this world are using it to jack up farm land prices using it as a tax dodge A normal couple get 1 million Farmers get 3 million and they say it's not enough go figure
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  822. This is who Jonson is and always has been a feckless liar who survives from one day to another A string of broken promises just to get to another day and the chaos and lying won't stop even when he's gone the stench and taint from his total lack of any moral compass has infected the whole cabinet and is seeping into Con the party as a whole.
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  823. Turn the country around from 13 years of it being throttled by Thatcherite trickle down economic policy
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  824. ​ The Tories are an economic basket case Even Thatcher was a complete failure we have Councils spending 1/2 thier budget on housing support which goes to the private sector, Sewage filled rivers with water companies swimming in Debt on the edge of Bancrupcy and an energy sector due to make 140 billion in excess profits from UK consumers over 2021 prices Schools and hospitals crumbling around us and all thier interested in is spaffing 300 million on gesture politics
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  825. ​@Noel-ji8nm if that's your opinion then they did 1000× better than the real thing
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  826. Since Labour promised to abolish tuition fees in 2019 they've changed leader and the Tories have increased the National debt pumping 750 billion in over a couple of years raising the debt to GDP ratio to 99%. From the reaction of the Gilts market last year there will be NO major unfunded borrowing and Brexit is having a large impact on the economy Making tuition fees free would cost 18 billion Nationalise the Water would cost 80 billion (18.5 billion cost + 62 Billion of debt) Priorities
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  827. On what making people poorer I guess your a millionaire then @jayparmar2322 
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  828. A range of mortgage products have been withdrawn its not funny
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  829. I'm only giving interest only mortgages as an example. They were 1/2 the repayments to start with Did a bit more of a scout around could well have been a new build deal. But as I said the products have changed @ImmuneGEORGE 
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  830. There giving tax breaks to Lord Sugar to start a new Airline called PorkAir
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  831. Worst economy in living memory 8 trillion onto debt and one of the major causes of the current inflation By the numbers +50% debt +40% balance of trade -3.6% GDP -3 million jobs -3 million without health insurance The US would go bankrupt with another Trump Presidency
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  832. He seems the least worst bad option, the others are pitching to the Billionaire media barons and rich Tory Donors corporate tax cuts which will fuel inflation even further. What they don't say is a study showed the top companies increased their profits by +12.5% last year and 50%+ of the inflation is driven by these increased profits as they big corporations take advantage of supply issues to jack up prices creating super profits in a restricted player market. Ex Fossil, Shipping and the dominance of a few countries in the grain market all create Oligopolies
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  833. There shills of the Tory party and establishment The reason for the headline is there stating the bleeding obvious you'd have to be a blind Tory cult follower to not see what's been going on the last year
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  834. He made the wind blow harder for a month in the channel believe in Brexit Jesus its all they have
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  835. There going to change planning and build, get generation rent into homes
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  836. The Alliance party seem to be on the rise I don't know what the unionists problem is they have the best of both worlds economically but they want the Brexit shithole economy GB is enduring as an example GB has 6% food inflation NI has 2.8%
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  837. Asylum applications in 2018 where below 20,000 there now around 40,000 what has changed over the 5 years is the numbers stuck in the system has gone from 35,000 to 165,000 Numbers have gone up but not to the levels we saw during the Kosovo war or the Iraq crisis what we have is sheer incompetence by the current government to save millions junk the Rwanda scheme fast track those from designated countries such as Afghanistan etc Also give the bulk of them temporary work permits and allow them to have bank accounts so they can pay their way
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  838. No it won't theNI taper has increased small businesses don't pay ni at all with 4 or less employees on minimum wage
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  839.  Bistna444  There going to address 14 years of non investment and hollowing out public services Tax should have gone up in 2010 instead we got Austerity followed by stagnation
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  840. The MSM are doing a lot of heavy lifting for the Tories to both smear reform labour and the Lib-dems to prop up the Tory vote
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  841. I worked it out it's 9.5 billion a year or 1 Banker tax break or £295 per taxpayer or 1% point drop in the bank rate
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  842.  @Queen.lizard.1947  The last Redfield and Wilton poll shows a major shift by education away from Conservatives as they descend into more populist rhetoric. This is on top of their age problem
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  843. It's following the Dow All markets are interlinked I invest so follow this stuff
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  844. The 11% is permanent, we are tied to the world gas price Nord stream is no more we should have had an accelerated program of home insulation relaxed planning laws on on-shore wind accelerated research into energy storage starting last February. 8 months on and they've done fk all
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  845.  @tastypymp1287  True there's food and goods inflation vastly multiplied by Brexit
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  846. Mordaunt isn't any better a history of lying
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  847. If they dont deal with Energy inflation through lack of supply being tied to gas then it will shoot up again in the winter
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  848.  @antonysteel8061  Renewables have zero energy input costs V fossil which has escalating extraction, processing and transport costs. Which is more captive to inflation? Which is captive to world market commodity prices? Which is captive to escalating production and transport costs? Last year renewable infrastructure costs fell in real terms by 2%. This isn't even close or a fair fight anymore your 5-10 years behind the times
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  849.  @reviewmaster4x467  first days of the war they captured some stuff but the latest claims I saw from a Russian source where of NLAW's stupid idiots showed piles of them but panned the camera tube side which was empty. There fire once then throw away so all they were showing was used discarded munitions given the pile they were showing and the effectiveness of 90% destruction rate there where the source of 90+ dead Russian vehicles
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  850. I've been listening to an interesting podcast called 'The Rest is Politics' Rory Stewart and Alister Campbell were discussing the Stormont elections and the history behind the Protocol give it a whirl Rory Steward pads out the machinations that were going on in the Conservative party at the time it certainly highlights what a load of BS the cabinet are spouting at the momment
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  851. So unless your in London or the London area then any measure of growth is meaningless Why do we care if the banking and service sector grew enough to mask the horror show that's playing out across the country as our infrastructure falls to pieces UK GDP = 3.1 trillion London GDP = 0.4 Trillion its growth forecast is 1.1-1.8% This is masking the regional economies across the UK shrinking
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  852. I'm happy enough to have it drip feed through the media along with Dumbo Johnson's other gaffs incompetence lack of morality and endless bilge pump of lies.
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  853. Most are going on tax breaks for the rich This is Toryland why waste yet more money on more Consultants
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  854.  @billpugh58  we weren't but its not like the final straw that broke the camels back more like a half a ton of straws all hitting various parts of the economy at the same time. The Cons took over in 2010 gdp to debt was 62% by 2019 it was 92% and we'd seen millions of jobs created in the highly unregulated gig economy nearly all filled by EU migrant workers. Adding millions to the population and cutting services to the bone saw the rise of UKIP by 2016 the Tories were in a lot of trouble. Brexit has been a resounding success for the Cons it saw off ukip and gained an 80 seat majority its also wiped out euro scepticism in the remaining EU block the rest of us who have to carry the can for these right wing lying pieces of shyte ill never forgive them
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  855. Brexit is an economic shitshw that's cost the country hundreds of billions in taxation lost productivity and shrinking economic output so undermining it sounds like the best idea yet
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  856. SME'S need a cut to Brexit paperwork which is costing 10 billion.
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  857. Don't worry Liz will come to the rescue of the rich with her corporate tax cuts loaded onto debt
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  858. That's coz the Tories have been in power for 13 years all Labour can do is point out what a bunch of corrupt immoral useless self serving incompetent idiots are in charge
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  859. We had an extended lockdown due to Tory incompetence Eat out to help out was spreading disease everywhere there where few international travel restrictions we ended up half in half out of restrictions, schools opened then closed next day nothing was done about school ventilation All these things Starmer brought up but was mocked by Boris as Captain Hindsight more like Admiral Foresight to me
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  860. Rules for thee not for me {let them eat cake
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  861. Because they contribute gobs of cash to the treasury through their working life, provide employment resource for business and industry which grows the economy
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  862.  @danielwebb8402  your example is typical of narrow minded right wing media stupidity Education isn't a SUNK cost it enhances the economy repaying over and over again in enhanced taxation reciepts Straight quote from an economics textbook Why Is Education Considered an Economic Good? Education tends to raise productivity and creativity, as well as stimulate entrepreneurship and technological breakthroughs. All of these factors lead to greater output and economic growth
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  863. They will remove multiple trickle down tax breaks for example in the 2023 budget millionaire pensioners were given 8 billion and a further +6 billion was given in fossil subsidies
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  864. He is doing the problem is it's a broken economic model, Thatcher's economy was built on asset stripping and oil money trying to copy it is driving the economy down the drain We desperately needs Reeve's centre left economic approach
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  865. I wouldn't call 42% a mandate and he was against Corbyn don't forget who was even less trusted and less popular than Bojo
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  866. Either way there hemorrhaging moderates and alienating younger voters
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  867. Fantasy economics been their with Corbyn who got shellacked in 2 elections
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  868. Nearly all of them Labour won a landslide after the war
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  869. Wind is 17% of the mix the issue is storage there isn't any including decommissioning our LNG store
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  870. The only peace they will have will be through force. There's a shale gas and oil seam under the part of Donbas not in Russian hands plus huge lithium deposits outside Dinipro and Putin has already deported 100s of thousands to failing Russian population centres in the east of the country. If Putin controls Ukraine he has a 45 million population to boost the declining Russian population and a stranglehold on mineral wealth
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  871.  @navaraboy3000  If your supporting Reform your opinion on the Economy is worthless it's a bag of Libertarian cr*p and a massive 50 billion giveaway to the wealthy
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  872. What sort of muppet gives up their human rights?
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  873. Tax base remained the same at 33% for 2 decades till Sunak took charge Osborne didn't reduce the take he shifted the numbers around pushed it onto the less well off with the VAT rise
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  874. There's breaking the rules then there's doing it deliberately over a sustained period on an industrial scale
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  875.  @fredmercury1314  They never said they wouldn't raise taxes. The Cons have raised them anyway The sort of money we need to cover the black hole left by the Cons is around 30 billion. We didn't collect 42 billion owed by HMRC last year, being outside the single market is costing hmrc 50 billion in lost tax, fuel subsidy in 2023 was 72 billion. We give over 10 billion in tax breaks to fossil companies, 20 billion on housing support, 5 billion because we don't process asylum claims in a timely manner. After 14 years the economy is a complete shambles
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  876. The Tories don't want a solution they've nothing else to run on bar stoking fear
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  877. Bulk of it doesn't take effect till April your looking at 18 months to 2 years before we see how it impacts the economy ​@CarlAndersen-t8u
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  878. 13 years of Tory Austerity turning the economy into a low pay trickle down shithole for the rich to pick over at their leisure The latest budget 8 billion tax cut for bankers 2 billion tax cut for millionaire pensioners and a tax bung for the oil companies quote "New measures mean that the Government has committed to a subsidy of up to £5.7bn in tax relief for investment in oil and gas in the next three years. This lost revenue could have instead supercharged an energy efficiency drive, insulating two million British homes over the same period, with an average bill saving of £342 per household every year." Sunak when Chancellor saw nearly 60 billion wasted on fraud latest audit says track and trace wasted 37 billion Truss's Brain fart budget 35 billion Then there's PPE to their mates in the Boris VIP lane Greensill Capital and Cameron anyone
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  879. Plugging in EV's to a V2G system allows grid level load balancing at zero cost bar the software saving billions in standby Generating capacity Octopus are all over this with good FIT and discounted off peak tariff. Did a refurb + extension last year added underfloor heating and double insulation, heating came on last night in the TV room only for the 1st time since April costs where around +10% on capital budget. A lot of net zero is a complete no brainer win win The blue wall will collapse with this level of stupidity they want Charging infrastructure and Solar + Insulation incentives not do nothing Tory Bullsh1t
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  880. What for the last 12 Years? We've had stagnant growth and negative average wage growth since 2010, between Cameron and May they knocked -3% of average wage growth god knows how much damage the Johnson government has done
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  881. On top of general food inflation we have the extra Brexit related inflation and the energy inflation is bad government policy we didn't import any Russian gas but our electricity spot price is tied to fossil prices even if your getting generation from renewables. Nothing will change till the energy issue is addressed and government policy does something about farming as domestic production is decreasing.
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  882. Or at least stayed in the single market, anyway currently in Boris's broken Britain the bulk of the NI problems can be sorted the rest could be negated by sticking to EU farming standards to get rid of all the paperwork round meat and agriculture especially processed food and vet certificates etc.
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  883. They don't collect 42 billion they were owed last year according to a government report. Won't be PAYE though
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  884. no it wont where here because of 13 years of relentless Thatcherism that's completly fked the economy
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  885. Renewable investment = cheaper electricity also insulation programs which will help reduce bills
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  886. @FukTheGender Agenda There not outside of our control they are outside Conservatives control because they can't think past tomorrow 12 years of this shyte and people still vote for them
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  887. He has no chance the economy is going south it will get far worse, the Cons will get obliterated at the next election
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  888. A non story story 10 volunteers use there holidays to go help thier friends across the pond Meanwhile a South African pumps around 1 billion into the Trump campaign to literlay buy an election as well as using his X platform and yet look over there Cmon sky get your sh1t together- what oh your owned by Murdoch ahh i see
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  889. When they do the media don't want to listen The Tories have always been the party of acusing others while they plumbthe depths of sexual depravity
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  890. You'd have to be mental to leave the ECHR what idiot would give up thier human rights to be mean to boat people
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  891. What's this one going to be called Groper Gate Trouser snake gate Pincher the fastest hands in Pestminster as backed by Blojo
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  892. They'll add online balloting and a number of other measures the Unions would like
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  893. No one could be a worse Prime Minister than Boris granted Gove Patel and Raab would give him a close run for his money. The general impression I get is the current Con party don't listen to experts in their field but the other parties do
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  894. Why they've pushed political appointees all over the BBC so it won't talk about how bad the government is doing The BBC has basically been banned from talking negative about Brexit and what a skip fire to the economy it is
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  895.  @Gray_ninja  capitalism doesn't work without a certain percentage of state control otherwise it eats itself alive and becomes monopolistic then usurped by fascists
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  896. Planes will be electric by the time its built, nasa are already developing batteries for aircraft
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  897. We don't use much during the summer in fact all UK electricity will be from nuclear and renewable during good weather and steady wind periods. There's also reserves under the north sea we've not fetched it online coz russian gas was so cheap
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  898. GBEnergy and a green agenda taking back control of our vast natural resources reforming the HOL and more devolved regional power breaking the London stranglehold are Nothing and yet they've not even unveiled their full agenda
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  899.  @trevorhoward2254  our population with a birthrate of 1.6 would decrease by around 200,000 based on your figures putting increasing strain on the health, pension and tax system brought on by an aging non working population Oh yea that is what's happening
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  900. I do so I looked it up it was a joke started by a conservative chancellor way back Over Brown's tenure he borrowed around 250 billion including rescuing the banking system and everyone's savings and pensions and since 2010 the Tories have borrowed 1.6 trillion, depressed wages making people on average 10% well off than they were in 2010 added 10 million in net migration and through wage suppression in public services and failure to regulate zero hour and outsourcing have created a low wage economy that needs feeding migrant labour.
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  901. Prime Minister Pritti Patel ? or the Turnip Raab How about Jacob Rees Smug or Rishi (tax the Poor) Sunak and then there's Liz (zero gdp trading deal ) Truss
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  902. Yea trade war what more could go wrong we've only lost 4% gdp to Brexit that's not nearly enough damage we need to kick British business while it's down. Glass of French champagne anyone
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  903. Removal of pollution from our waterways
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  904. Everyone has to be processed by not doing so we aren't deporting 40,000 who are here illegally and spending 8 billion on performance politics that does nothing bar rouse up certain sections of the population who are dumb enough to believe migrants are the bane of their lives
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  905.  @hughjohns9110  why is moving from a trickle down Thatcherite model which has stagnated the country to a Demand side Keynesian model not going to be good for Middle / Lower Class Trickle down has bled out the money from the bottom it has nowhere to go but feed off the middle class to maintain the wealth growth at the top
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  906. Report in the New York Times, the Oligarch donor connection won't go away especially after Dorries comments about donors wanting Bozo Major Donation to U.K. Conservative Party Was Flagged Over Russia Concerns The donation, of $630,225, was made in February 2018 in the name of Ehud Sheleg, a wealthy London art dealer who was most recently the Conservative Party’s treasurer. The money was part of a fund-raising blitz that helped propel Prime Minister Boris Johnson and his party to a landslide victory in the 2019 general election. But documents filed with the authorities last year and reviewed by The New York Times say that the money originated in a Russian account of Mr. Sheleg’s father-in-law, Sergei Kopytov, who was once a senior politician in the previous pro-Kremlin government of Ukraine. He now owns real estate and hotel businesses in Crimea and Russia. “We are able to trace a clear line back from this donation to its ultimate source,” Barclays bank wrote in a January 2021 alert to the National Crime Agency. The bank, which maintained some of the accounts used in the transaction, flagged the donation as both suspected money laundering and a potentially illegal campaign donation. A lawyer for Mr. Sheleg acknowledged that he and his wife received millions of dollars from his father-in-law in the weeks before the donation. But they said that was “entirely separate” from the campaign contribution. “There is absolutely no basis for suggesting that Mr. Kopytov’s gift for his daughter was intended as, or for the purpose of making, a political donation to the Conservative Party,” the lawyer, Thomas Rudkin, wrote in response to questions from The Times.
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  907. Its about as Victorian and outdated as their economic policies
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  908.  @iamskeptical9108  I'd add that migration is also the result of government policies. The Tories run Supply Side Trickle Down Economic Policy an example of this was the Cameron / Osborne all in on having a completely unregulated GIG economy who's business model was to Supply Side cheap Eastern European labour into unregulated zero hour low paid contract work which undermined traditional businesses. The multi nationals offshored the profits and they where running down government services at the same time as importing millions of workers who paid little to no tax who would add to the burden on said services.
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  909. Thats through lack of investment in mass storage and problems with planning ​@harryw29
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  910.  @unamedjoe830  were currently paying Shell and BP to extract oil and Gas due to the insane subsidies given to them by the Conservatives.
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  911. Cancelling Net Zero not addressing the energy crisis is long term? Quote The OBR concludes: the debt impact of future volatility in gas prices is at 13% of the UK gross domestic product (GDP) to 2050. This dwarfs the debt impact of 6% of GDP for investing in net zero. Second, it investigates the potential of new, growing energy solutions to cushion price volatility. Quote With the energy price cap below £1,300 throughout 2021, UK households spent around £30 billion on energy during the year. In 2023 the projected spend is around £170 billion. This is equivalent to more than doubling the basic rate of income tax from 20% to 45% or almost doubling VAT from 20% to 38%. Just over 6% of GDP.
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  912. The Ultra wealthy always complain about taxes and then point to some think tank they fund which has proof that there right
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  913. they wouldn't be if they were processed the bulk would be repatriated and declared illegal, the government are currently sat on 40,000 who should be deported @TestySatchel
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  914.  @joancooley1387  Every economist I've read opine on the topic reckoned she was as mad as a box of frogs Even the gilt traders thought she had a screw loose. Indiscriminate Unfunded tax cuts produce 1 thing that's debt
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  915.  @joancooley1387  He's still doing trickle down supply side economics Millionaire pensioners 2 billion tax cut Fossil industry 6 Billion Tax Cut Bankers 8 billion Tax cut But screwing the rest of us for the money to the tune of around £1000 per person. The Truss budget left us with a 30 billion hole. Trickle down has never worked Trump Tax cuts put a multi trillion hole in US finances Cameron increased the debt to GDP with his in 2010 it was 62% by 2019 it was 92% (2015 year of the tax cuts it was 87%) The only reason Thatcher made it look like it was vaguely working was on the back of Asset stripping Globalization and Oil Money Trickle down supply side is a busted flush never worked never will Truss would have had to open up the economy to unlimited Supply side labour to even get it to stand still (India was the Plan) and we'd already busted the economy with Brexit Read "Arguing with Zombies" By Nobel Economist Paul Krugman and "The Capital Order" By Clara Mattei (Political Economist)
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  916.  @dragonfly6908  what's that got to do with an industry that's had a pay freeze for the last 2 years and the bulk of workers on 14/15 pounds an hour? There not even offering structured rises to increase pay at the bottom.
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  917. The EU had a plan for a hard brexit started work on expansion of ports in Ierland and major road up grades so that they could switch freight from the GB land bridge via Dover to Cherburg Rosslare The Cons were too busy infighting to see how screwed they were going to be over a hard Brexit with the EU bypassing any and every point of GB leverage
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  918. We could have promoted domestic solar more the 3/4% would make a big difference also our homes are poorly insulated and a huge drive on insulation would clip another few points off gas.
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  919. He can't change he's always been a lying lazy bafoon and all clinging on will do is drag the whole of the Con party through the sewer Reports have surfaced that all the policy and gaffs are designed to do is control the news cycle there not designed to do anything ex leveling up get brexit done etc
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  920. There trying to peel of the Lunatics who are leeching to Reform who are promising batsh1t economics with Batsh1t immigration policy Maybe they should I dunno do a good job and appeal to the moderate centre rather than chasing the dragon
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  921. Pride? Bojo is a complete laughing stock round the world and we have the most unpatriotic government in our history bought and paid for by foreign business and the ultra wealthy.
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  922. UK trade volumes suffer record five-year decline Financial Times 1 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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  923. Hinkley C will cost 70 billion (subsides over 35 years) The estimate to go green is 40 billion a year With gas price volatility as it is we spent 140 billion on energy last year before the energy crisis that was 30 billion even taking into account inflation its still way cheaper to transition to renewables
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  924. EV's reached parity with ICE on price this year and will continue to get cheaper Doing nothing now means no infrastructure to support the transition affecting UK economic output even further making us even more uncompetitive and reducing productivity. Once parity is achieved and the estimates are we've a way to go before the true bottom of ev costs are reached ICE sales will collapse
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  925. No they won't and why come on here and lie?
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  926. Just get a vaccine and stop being a cry baby sonwflake
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  927. Reform are just rebadged UKIP there policies are the same old tierd right wing shyte that's left the economy on its knees for over a decade
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  928. I'm not happy with it but it won't change my vote, they should attack him for the root cause of the collapse of the Justice system Austerity and the last budget which gave millionaire pensioners a tax break and clobbered everyone else with tax rises
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  929. So what does an elite Tosser like Tice offer bar unworkable populist solutions to extremly complex problems? More years of housing asylum claiments because we need to be seen to be as cruel as possible while spaffing billions up the wall on failed policies
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  930. He's canned HS3 for another London centric plan the money for the north is 1 billion less than the EU fund we used to get its the same old London and home counties fk everyone else
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  931. there cutting yet more infrastructure projects its just RAAC 2.0 rob budgets today and have to pay x1000 the day after tomorrow when we get caught. Meanwhile use said plunder to promise tax cuts have snap election pray the plebs fall for it
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  932. I'm always amazed at the people who vote for right wing populist against thier own interests
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  933. The Tory record Worst economy in 150 years Highest tax burden in 70 years Number of firms exporting/importing down by 1/3 Abandoned leveling up Abandoned triple lock There not even pretending to govern these days
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  934. Europe has 500 million people in it and has frictionless trade + freedom of movement, we have 100k shortage without factoring in the extra number of drivers needed to cover for port delays and changes to Freightage due to Brexit. 100k say plus 5% so 120k shortage and were loosing 600 per month according to the road hauliers assoc. So we need 27.2k just to stand still so the EU shortage is under 10% and ours is going to be near 30% But hey the Brexiteers were always bad at maths and we have to keep those foreign drivers out because racism
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  935. Last treasury report I read said 28% maximised tax take And CGT was only paid by 0.65% of the population
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  936. The first thing that has to be done is stop spending money we don't have and rip out all the trickle down neoliberal policies All Corbyn promised was to spend 3/4 trillion we didn't have on socialist fantasy projects
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  937. Its just theatre for the xenophobic masses they feed this constant toxic anti migrant rhetoric so people don't look at real problems in their lives like the governments failed economic policies, huge waiting lists as the Tories try and outsource healthcare to their wealthy friends. Regressive taxes that target the poor and working class. "Hey look over here were wasting billions sending people to Rwanda then sticking our head back in the sand" "Vote for us we can be more cruel heartless and xenophobic than anyone else without ever dealing with the problem and waste loads of taxpayers money doing it" Next week they will be banging on about trans people again
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  938. They don't have the public purse and billionaire donor's of dubious origins to pay for them Also the anti mask anti lock down anti rule behaviour is a driven by a feeling of entitlement and an ultra right wing Libertarian ethos that is infecting the Conservative party
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  939.  @Bungle-UK  certainly is after 13 years of Tory misrule
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  940. Look up Sue Grays sh1t list in which she goes through the possible problems upcoming. 1 big one is Thames water going bankrupt another is inflation going back up
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  941. Hardly its government policy We're producing less food since Brexit we didn't help growers with energy costs and Brexit itself increases costs + greatly affects the supply chain Any shortages in the EU and where last stop because of paperwork and red tape
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  942.  @thomasowen1720  Part of the inflation is the total picture is complex but pumping 700 billion into an economy in 2 years which has subsequently trickled up doubling Millionaire and Billionaire wealth has an effect
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  943. No it won't what's driving the economy down the toilet is small state trickle down low tax (for the wealthy) Conservative economic policy
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  944. Farage, Truss, Braverman etc have all been over the States stumping for republicans and have ties with the Heritage Foundation And the Labour party has ties with the Democrats and it's big news And the last 4 Tory administrations will be worse in economic terms than the current labour one given we've had zero growth and shrinking living standards over the last 14 years
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  945. Thatcherism needs a constant pool of supply side Labour otherwise they'd have to invest in the UK rather than asset strip it for their friends Under right wing economic policy if they shut down immigration the economy would collapse. Upskilling your internal workforce and investment to cut migration where your domestic productivity was able to take up the slack would take a couple of decades given the economic skip fire the Tories have produced
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  946. That's fine kick them out of the Premiership
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  947. Gas was cheaper by more than half till the current crisis
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  948.  @yunaverse6124  get some economic facts straight look at the data and stop parroting Tory propaganda 2010 debt to gdp 62.4% 2014 debt to gdp 79.8% 2019 debt to gdp 82.7% 2022 debt to gdp 94.9% The last 12 years has been nothing more than economic vandalism where the rich have borrowed to the hilt and plundered the economy while suppressing real average wages and growth. 2014 was a huge tax cut for the rich at a time of brutal cuts and Austerity for the rest of us In 2010 labour proposed modest cuts but economic investment to grow the economy each point of GDP = 8 billion to the treasury Don't come on here and lecture me about bankrupting the country when the data points quite squarely at the Cons Blair/Brown +25% growth in average earnings including real pay growth for public sector workers Cameron/May -3% shrinkage in real earnings over a decade nurse's have had a -8% shrinkage Johnson is outdoing everyone it's round -5% shrinkage and getting larger + ZERO GDP growth leading to Stagflation
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  949.  @Spingalo  Hopefully they will completely implode and take their media lap dogs with them the likes of the Sun Mail Express and Torygraph going bust will do us all a service
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  950. It's a universal benefit that is now going to be part of the normal benefits system as a pensioner I want to see the NHS sorted out and net zero produce cheaper energy prices. Blame the unfunded NI pre election bribe the Tories instigated
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  951. No he won't they'll change planning build some new towns in Tory heartland that will teach the nimby's to vote Con
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  952. Hey right on lets elect a Fascist what could possibly go wrong
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  953. There's no such thing Keep deluding yourself though it's entertainment
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  954.  @ScottishRoss27  what sort of idiot would vote for independence after the car crash that is Brexit?
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  955.  @ScottishRoss27  your joined at the hip to the UK economy what really irritates me and I assume winds up. Scots is the squandering of oil revenues by Westminster. It is what it is
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  956.  @stevec6427  it will be redefined as exploitative zero hour I'm retired and volunteer to do invigilating mostly reading for special needs pupils which is done on zero hour. It will be defined as somone on regular hours
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  957. ​ @ANDREWHALL28 in what way did Blair/Brown fail? Average wages rose by 25% during their period in office and schools the NHS where well funded Austerity was proven back in 2012 to be not working and causing the economy to stagnate the myth of Tory economic competence is just that a myth Trickle down Supply side economics doesn't work and not only that your tax base will be going up to 37% from 33% to keep those for the rich trickle down policies. During the last 3 decades the tax base has been round 33% but no longer where entering the Tory golden age
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  958. The bulk of the case is defamation which he lost The US can't afford another 8 trillion onto debt which then sparks inflation, the Trump administration is responsible for 1/4 of the entire US debt the guy is a multiple bankrupt quote according to data from the Federal Reserve Bank of New York. It amounts to about $23,500 in new federal debt for every person in the country. Unlike George W. Bush and Abraham Lincoln, who oversaw the larger relative increases in deficits, Trump did not launch two foreign conflicts or have to pay for a civil war
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  959. The north Sea is one of the best places on the planet to build off shore wind farms, if the UK got its act together it could be a major electricity exporter, excess electricity needs to be used to create and store alternative to natural gas. The current thinking is to use it to create hydrogen gas there are pilots under way.
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  960.  @kevinjohnson3782  The Cons borrowed 130 billion last year They've run out of things to asset strip only ones left are schools NHS & Pensions
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  961. Biden does stuff so how is that a comparison
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  962. NI taper went up most small businesses don't now pay employers ni at all
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  963.  @stevec6427  2 billion splashed on millionaire pensioner tax break and 8 billion on banker tax break in this budget alone
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  964.  @alejandropalazonurtubi3520  The reason for banning older cars is the levels of pollution related illnesses in urban conurbations
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  965.  @Srb1973  They care about the costs to the health service which gets funded through taxation
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  966. Tax cuts? We're broke they've driven the GDP to debt ratio up to 100% the bill for BREXIT paperwork for companies is 10 billion PA exports are 15% down
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  967. Blanket tax cuts don't create growth the just create more debt
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  968. Brex1t has lived up to every economist expectations in being total economic train wreck Loosing fom has quadrupled migration not cut it
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  969.  @ash_yt0  his was illegal and there's evidence he laundered the law money back through unsecured loans back to his wife He's not out of the wormwoth scrubs yet
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  970. Polling just put Labour backup to 48% and Conservatives down to 23% Meanwhile Tories eat thier own
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  971. Your not going to get any growth without Planning reform and regulatory realignment with the EU both of which he is committed to do Planning reform and removing the on-shore wind farm block will help quickly ramp up GRID expansion and new towns is an easy one put them in Tory constituencies fill them full of grateful Labour converts He can do a hell of a lot with very little even raising business confidence which is at rock bottom
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  972. There will be an Autumn statement
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  973. It will be a comfortable majority on these results look at a map and we have had what looks like an unprecedented amount of tactical voting due to FPTP The Lib-Dems and Greens aren't going to get the same % in a general and at 26% for the Tories it will be a bloodbath
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  974. So Boris's achievements, where did I put that piece of blank paper Oh Oh I got one World Beating Inflation and The first Prime Minister to Spaff an 80 seat majority up the wall
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  975. He'll change planning to permissive and allow councils to do joint ventures for large scale building programs of both social and private housing It will also speed up Grid deployment by a couple of years Both will create real growth
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  976.  @mikegolfwhiskey71  we starting on the sexism are we? That didn't take long
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  977. Deployment of a replacement to standby gas peak plant doesn't happen overnight it takes a while The Tories did nothing about this for 3 years, Germany have been building wind and solar as well as mass storage ever since the war broke out
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  978. Renewables are a no brained they became cheapest source of energy back in 2019 The grid needs renewing anyway as we move from 1 dimensional aging large Plant systems to a distributed energy network, I've Solar & Solar thermal at home into year 2 it saves a small fortune original payback was around 15 years on capital cost with energy crisis and inflation that's now 8
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  979. Dream on the Tories are out in ukip range
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  980.  @johncooper8910  it's wasted money there's zero economic benifits to the tax cut. Railway generates massive economic benefits to the areas it passes through
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  981. It's a Con it only applies to the state pension part and is only needed because they have frozen the 20% threshold and chose to waste the 20 billion on an NI cut instead of upping the Threshold.
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  982. seems pleasant enough to me especially as he's not going to strut around introducing madcap schemes to make the migrant situation worse
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  983. At least he's intelligent at 100% debt to gdp anyone proposing tax cuts is piling on debt
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  984. If he gets a suspension for lying to Parliament then he may well get a recall election so bye bye Bojo
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  985. There is little to no illegal migration there all refugees till there claims are rejected In leaving the EU we left all the associated bodies and agreements for the handling of refugees also all safe country repatriation deals we had became null and void because they were with the EU not us. This is basically a problem of our own making or rather of the Tories making there are solutions but the Tories refuse to engage with them because one of the political pillars they sold Brexit to the xenophobes and racists on was keeping out Johnny Foreigner while in effect Brexit was always going to make the problem worse.
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  986. Its a bounce back from 2020 which saw -9.5% so +7.5% there's no real growth in that figure at all were still -1.5% on 2019 pre pandemic
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  987. and what will they do build a bigger soap box and shout hate the migrants while doubling the budget to 16 billion there not going to leave the UN convention on refugees and loos their permanent seat on the UN security council so dream on @wft15 
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  988.  @richardmaclean4519  not as much as you'd think
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  989.  @seamuspadraigsanders431  A decade+ of Blair/Brown and economic growth +25% in average wages well funded services + a tax base of 33% A decade+ of Cameron/May/Johnson/Truss/Sunnak economy shrinking on average £11,000 worse off public services falling apart + a tax base of 36% at the bottom my son's tax has gone up due to fiscal drag by £500 on an annual salary of 22,500 his pay has been frozen for years so stick your tory boy boot licking in the bin
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  990.  @randyschwaggins  No he wasn't he just got pilloried by the right wing media
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  991. You'd soon start moaning when bread prices double an we have to dedicate 5% of gdp to rearming
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  992. Boris will do ANYTHING to cling to power
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  993. Last time labour did this pay went up and businesses became more efficient not as reliant on cheap labour but invested in capital investment which is tax deductable
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  994. Its estimated energy companies will make 170 billion over 2 years in excess profits
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  995.  @davidjohn64  there's plenty of escorts in Italy
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  996. Why there all in on States rights
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  997. I'm sure they will but even the GOP mega donors are fed up with the Trump Crime wave. My feeling is they will pressure the court to take the off ramp @FrankieBlueEyes 
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  998.  @TryDiy  they were appointed by Leanord Leo of the federalist society to them Trump was a useful idiot now he's blocking the lane for a less insane useful candidate
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  999. what difference would that make?
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  1000. he's no wore than Breverman true its a low bar but I say keep him on and have months of scandal with court cases galore dragging the Tory party into the pit of Hades and electoral oblivion where it belongs
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  1001.  @Eleventhearlofmars  he'll never be PM and any debate he gets into this will come up, Johnson is getting pretty toxic I live in a Tory supposedly safe area and partygate hit them like a sledge hammer we have an elderly and middle class well off population and the second hammer blow has been the Ukraine visa fiasco lots of well off well meaning mum's incandescent with a burning rage that there seemingly being actively blocked from taking people in to appease the Racist crowd Bojo needed to push the Tories over the line at the last election.
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  1002. So Osborne's 19% tax rate cut Cost the Treasury 200 Billion in lost receipts while it was in place so how much GDP did it Generate? According to economists around 0.5% GDP which = 40 billion in additional tax over its enactment What did companies spend the money on if they didn't reinvest it well quite simply in share Buy Backs boosting Stock price which in turn got the CEO's record payouts.
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  1003. I'd have thought having a Chancellor with a degree from the lse and boe experience was a good thing?
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  1004. SNP put in a motion to try stir up trouble in the Labour Party The CON's put in an amendment to Block Labour submitting one, they've do it all the time so no meaningful amendment goes forward and the whole debate becomes pointless on an opposition day motion. Well done speaker is what I say less of this political shenanigans
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  1005. who cares about Londoners the rest of the country doesn't@charleswhite758
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  1006. ​@craigjohnson8240 the term woman isn't fixed to sex as in don't sound like an old woman
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  1007.  @TWFydGlu  Vets have been warning the government now for months the EU don't check livestock passing through the EU bound for the UK There is a real danger of serious animal disease which would devastate our farmers The BVA has expressed serious concerns that the UK Government is considering whether to impose a fourth delay to post-Brexit border checks on goods entering Great Britain from the EU. The Financial Times reported earlier this week (29 March) that senior officials in government are “sympathetic” to the idea of imposing further delays to the checks, which are due to come into place from 1 July 2022. Warning While some industry figures are in favour of an extension, the BVA is warning that delaying checks could have serious consequences for the UK’s biosecurity, and increase the threat of the incursion of devastating diseases such as African swine fever.
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  1008.  @silverfire01  Our energy crisis was self made. The Conservatives dismantled the renewable roadmap left by New Labour including stopping the insulation initiatives. Instead they focused on RWANDA, even as they left office the OnShore wind ban was still in place and nothing had been done to sort out planning for vital infrastructure. A plan to install Mass Storage near me had to be shelved after being in planning for 6 years then getting rejected as Not being vital. Plans to force landlords to have a bare minimum insulation standard on buildings of C+ was shelved. New home and extension insulation and heating standards are appalling. Cov was a 2% one off hit to the economy and spending under Johnson was out of control, VIP lanes, Eat out to Help Out, 37 billion on test and trace outsourced to management consultants. An A level economics student could have run the country better than those Con muppets, at least he would have listened to experts.
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  1009.  @silverfire01  Our energy diversification stopped in 2010 and the Tories went all in on GAS. They also cancelled energy efficiency targets (insulation) and allowed INOS to close our just in case Gas storage facility. We only got 5% of our gas from Russian yet energy prices went through the roof. The government last year spent 72 billion on energy subsidies yet could have done something about this at the start of 2022 when the invasion took place. Our cov response was one of the worst managed in the world according the data. We are an island the Tories never banned international travel, there were people coming over here from India with new variations cos Boris was after an India trade deal. Our economy is also completely blighted by brex1t as the major trade blocks we deal with turn inward our government decides it can go it alone
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  1010. What's the difference between the Tories Reform & UKIP NOTHING
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  1011. So Osborne's 19% tax rate cut Cost the Treasury 200 Billion in lost receipts while it was in place so how much GDP did it Generate? According to economists it generated around 0.5% GDP which = 40 billion in additional tax while it was enacted What did companies spend the money on if they didn't reinvest it well quite simply in share Buy Backs boosting Stock price which in turn got the CEO's record payouts.
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  1012. The current inflation is Supply Side Corporate on basic commodities with little to no flexibility in Demand Pay has zero to do with the current inflation (unless your counting corporate boss's filling their boots)
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  1013. Singapore on Thames is a City only model fk everyone else, it will collapse trade in anything but services and needs cheap labour basically a serf class to work
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  1014. Yea look invading a sovereign country in Europe is a complete non starter especially when it borders multiple EU countries This isn't anything to do with NATO it's just Putin's fascist expansion he believes in a greater russian state strong and large enough to rival the US so that needs +200 million people and an increase in GDP the size of the EU Go read up on the nutballs he listens to and reads such as Dugin (current) and Ivan Illyan (Stalin era)
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  1015.  @andythoms8130  because the stats on criminal justice say so they've been going up steadily since Starmer left the DPP in 2013 the main reason being Austerity cuts but useless ministers make it worse Ken Clarke was Justice minister from 2010 to 2012 did a decent job but at that time the rot the started to set in it was with Chris Failing Grayling.
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  1016. Both parties have to abide by international Law which is why same old same old
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  1017. Fiscal drag with frozen threshold should be 14500 8nstead of 1250 £500 extra from the bottom
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  1018.  @T5Zplayer  quote The pound has remained stable and the markets have reacted positively to Labour's landslide election victory. Shares in leading companies on the UK stock exchange have risen reflecting expectations among investors of a period of stability after years of market volatility under the Conservatives.
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  1019. @T5Zplayer  not really the blue goggles the scarf what next Starmer has wait for it appointed experts into the cabinet shock horror wow
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  1020. @T5Zplayer  what was the wrong thing to ?
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  1021. there cutting yet more infrastructure projects and reducing standards its just RAAC 2.0 rob budgets today and have to pay x1000 the day after tomorrow when we get caught. Meanwhile use said plunder to promise tax cuts have snap election pray the plebs fall for it
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  1022. we have a bury your head in the sand policy now that's costing 8 billion a year and no we won't have open borders wish we still had FOM well maybe one day
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  1023. What's that supposed to mean?
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  1024.  @mrsubject1  Over the last month the Gulf of Mexico has had record heat content with sea surface temperatures at 29-31C. This is like rocket fuel for hurricanes
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  1025. No he's not its the same neanderthals that voted ukip
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  1026. Its cheaper than having to fight there ourselves, if Putin isn't stopped at Ukraine it will be a NATO country next
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  1027. I don't understand why he is being so confrontational, there is no record to pick apart? It's bad viewing I turned off after 2 minutes
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  1028.  @rhysjaggar4677  I listen to the New Statesman podcast the women on their are pretty open about the issue, it's a left progressive if your a Tory boy content with economic self flagelation and continously lowering of living standards I'd give it a miss. There's too much truth telling about Tory corruption and chronic economic mismanagement and incompetence on it
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  1029. Not sure if it's going to go ahead but the 20 Billion NI cut was completely unfunded it had 2 purposes 1 bribe the Tories back into power If that failed 2. Hamstring Labour and burn through their manifesto promised tax rises leaving them with no money to pursue their agenda
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  1030. Labour aren't red Tories there not the puppets of Policy Exchange (Sunak) or the IEA (Truss) and are not locked into the ideology and cult of Brexit
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  1031. The Con's deliberately broke the Asylum system for political capital there was no reason for Theresa May to stop people working while they claimed Asylum
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  1032. Were borrowing 130 billion in 2023 and there's money for tax cuts? How stupid do they think we are?
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  1033. They've been trying to get rid of Russian influence corruption for a while the younger generation want a more open corruption free society Putin keeps spendig money trying to undermine that using oil and gas
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  1034. They have lots of plans all better than the Cons
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  1035. Tax base throughout Blair / Brown was 33% it stayed that way till Sunak was Chancellor and is now 36%. Average Wage growth under Blair/Brown was +20% Average wage growth from 2010 to 2023 now stands at -6.1%  @walkingkings2660 
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  1036. In the 2010's the Tories defunded local social care in their Austerity budgets, money from central government to local authorities has shrunk by 40% that effects all regions in the UK. A major cause of all the chaos is lack of social care and getting people out of hospital into a care system
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  1037. Why be an apologist for the Conservatives there screwing everyone but the 1% over and gaslighting anyone that will listen Flat economy since 2010, debt to gdp in 2010 was 62% thanks to Cameron it rose to 82% paying for tax cuts for the rich so when we hit covid it ballooned.
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  1038.  @RyanSmith-on1hq  Tories are directed by Tufton Street and it's libertarian think tanks who are trying to cripple net zero
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  1039. Sice when I don't want a load of far right BNP nutters with swastika tattoos anywhere near the cenotaph
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  1040. No thanks
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  1041. during her Loud week last week the Tories dropped 2 points in the polls to 23% Labour rose to 47% so the country thinks she's a waste of space @hughjohns9110 
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  1042.  @nigelmoth1081  "I just don't think the Labour party supports the working classes anymore" Yea right that would be the class that voted UKIP/BREXIT/Boris Labour's core support is and will come further from the middle class educated suburban vote. As in the States where the Right wing Republicans have embraced unashamed populism while fleecing their supporters with tax cuts for corporations and the rich so the Tory star and Reform are now burning the firebrand populist rhetoric and are and would do the same thing. In the States that translates to 70% of counties that voted for Biden in the last election consisting of 70% of US GDP. While the Tories will promise lower taxes that will translate to direct taxation in the headline rates which will be paid for by freezing thresholds and refusing to tax wealth putting further tax burden on the working class.
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  1043.  @ricky7396  what's the problem in that more money into the economy
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  1044. thats not how it works the chumocracy has to gather round and see which sleaze bag is to be your new leader the Tory media propaganda will go into full spin new leader sweeps clean will lead the country in these troubled times bla bla election in 3 years
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  1045.  @garyrumsby3330  The place with a media completely controlled by the ruling party and a second rate economy with all its best and brightest emigrating ? Don't worry Jonson is on track to turn the UK into a similar economic shithole with far right populist policies
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  1046. He wasn't supported by 58% of the voting public in the 1st place even after being against Corbyn A hard right fk the poor agenda wasn't going to fetch anyone back
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  1047. We're borrowing 130 billion there not exactly being mystic meg here anyone outside of government knows its fkin stupid
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  1048. It doesn't cost a fortune spending on net zero isn't a sunk cost here I'll explain Capital costs of renewables I have solar thermal panels for hot water it will repay its capital cost in energy price saving at the current rate +5% energy inflation in 5 - 6 years After year 6 I will save 17% of my energy bill for a minimum of an additional 14 years I spend +8% of build costs on my extension on A+ windows, double insulation (using superfoil internal skin) + run underfloor heating estimate repayment on lower energy costs of a conventional build is 8-10 years but at current rates its probably going to be 5 the space loses around 2 degrees heat every 6-8 hours @blackcatdungeonmastersfami5311 
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  1049.  @silondon9010  we've had 12 years of excuses and a lot of the core problems where started by Thatcher anyway with the sell off and non replacement of social housing and Conservative policy still wedded to right to asset strip. The sale of utilities which are a monopoly, the piss poor transport system and we're paying through the nose for all of it All they've done is privatised the profits and socialised the losses
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  1050.  @evolife1044  aren't we all
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  1051. All the Rwanda bill did was stir up the crazies and boost Reform Numbers 2 years wasted on a dead cat policy that was free advertising to a rival party
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  1052. Like May's half in half out The damage is done to Large Companies we need to sort ourselves out and enable SME's to be able to trade more freely
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  1053.  @wasidanatsali6374  Better than dying of air pollution from gas cars, on windless days the smog just sits there the rise in Asthma is pretty exponential
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  1054. There wasn't enough hospital space or fridge trucks for the dead. Once the health system is overwhelmed the death rate rockets out of control we saw it in China, Italy and New York New York is a prime example it is now statistically one of lowest States in the US on covid deaths per 100,000. We shouldn't have needed the 2nd lockdown because non of the pubs clubs bars cinemas etc should have been reopened for indoor use, eat out to help out was fkin dumb
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  1055. Stop being ignorant and putting labels on an entire population of young people
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  1056.  @FEiSTYFEVER  Yea I mean cheap energy and energy Independence from global multinational Cartels, I mean where is the profit for the fossil companies in that
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  1057. That's just being stupid now C'mon grow a brain as for net zero what's wrong with cheaper energy prices? Hint renewables are x4 cheaper than Nuclear and coal and x7 times cheaper than gas @JDMJOE 
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  1058. that only accounts for 50% of the problem and the Tories will never put in the mechanisms to curb what is Covid and War profiteering
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  1059. They've tried to slow down the mail deliberately and now their trying to stop legally cast ballots received before the deadline of the 3rd they've not even started on those post marked 3rd received 4/5/6th, mail in ballots is a legal voting option. Just because Orange brain decided to make vote by mail a political statement doesn't invalidate vote by mail
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  1060. Yea but the trolley is an easy target
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  1061.  @YouTube-are-Trump-Toilet-Crud  I rerad Animal Farm the other day fascinating psychological insight the parallels are scary
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  1062. ​@ThePixey1000 it's the sign of a dysfunctional system, it needs structural investment not additional staff, the processes don't flow so people get demotivated because things don't work Nurses should be nursing it may sound obvious but it's the root of the problem
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  1063. I struggle with the thought of an honest Tory Javid is taking boat loads of money for lobbying the new Chancellor got boat loads of money for being an adviser to an oil company there all as corrupt as each other its just the greasy Piglet Blojo can't be bothered to hide it.
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  1064. ​ @jayparmar2322 Also the Banking crash was a combination of changes and regulatory relaxation by both Thatcher and Brown And We were the only country to pursue infinite Austerity
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  1065. Given he supports Truss its clear she is the candidate that should be off the final ballot, she's as thick as mince and if the ERG have their claws in her God Help Us All
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  1066. Trump is so dumb he couldn't even do a Coup properly. Impeached for blackmailing Ukraine, impeached a second time for a failed plot to steal an election.
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  1067. Its just theatre for the xenophobic masses they feed this constant toxic anti migrant rhetoric so people don't look at real problems in their lives like the governments failed economic policies, huge waiting lists as the Tories try and outsource healthcare to their wealthy friends. Regressive taxes that target the poor and working class. "Hey look over here were wasting billions sending people to Rwanda then sticking our head back in the sand" "Vote for us we can be more cruel heartless and xenophobic than anyone else without ever dealing with the problem and waste loads of taxpayers money doing it" Next week they will be banging on about trans people again
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  1068. 2056 Russia is running out of Trebuchet more like they don't have the industrial base anymore they switched to a mafia style run Petro economy back when Putin took over They do keep everything but cold war munitions are dangerous and the Russians aren't know for being careful on storage and maintenance
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  1069. It's Truss shooting her mouth off where supplying no end of anti air anti tank equipment
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  1070.  @tomchen513  this has nothing to do with NATO or Donbas Putin believes in a greater Russia a power to rival the US and stand on a par with China so to do that he needs +200 million in population and the GDP the size of the EU The current Russian economy is smaller than Italy and it only has 150 million population and that is shrinking it lost 700k net last year Go read up on Alexander Dugin and Ivan Illyan to see where he gets his nutball expansionist fascist ideas from
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  1071. fiscal drag on frozen rates of 12250 they should now be 15000 and its frozen till 2028 so your 550 down from that NI is at the same rate then another 220 for NI making 670 So your 4% NI cut needs to be big enough to wipe out the fiscal drag
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  1072.  @JamalBrown-k1x  The reason the Threshold went up was due to the Lib-Dems it was part of the deal Clegg negotiated. The Tories have been eating into it since their second term it should be 15000
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  1073. There not going to put up tax on PAYE because that's the bit of the economy that spends money The more people spend the more tax the government collects in like a merry go round
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  1074. Taxes are going up fiscal drag adds £420 to everyone on the 20% threshold, don't forget ni thresholds have been frozen as well adding another £220 to that total. Real threshold should be £14350.
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  1075. Islam is 5% only get a reality check and stop reading the likes of the DailyMail and Express
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  1076. there cutting yet more infrastructure projects its just RAAC 2.0 rob budgets today and have to pay x1000 the day after tomorrow when we get caught out. Meanwhile use said plunder to promise tax cuts have snap election pray the plebs fall for it
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  1077.  @aclark903  he's toast anyway ther will be a housing market crash, the economy is fked while we have tons of brexit trade barriers and this lot can't admit they screwed it all up
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  1078.  @aclark903  no he won't they want unfettered visa access all he'll be interested in is the City
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  1079. From what I've heard there going to go round departments to cut so called net zero costs my guess is reduce capital expenditure on oh I dunno things like public building refurbishment and lower the building insulation standards as far as they can get away with to save money up front (which increases operating budgets) to scrape enough money together to promise a tax cut then have a snap election accuse Labour of being in Satan's grasp as far as budgeting is concerned
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  1080. Who cares about migration 8ts a non issue blown up by right wing media Here's some figures 500k students who contribute 42 billion to the economy 500k emigrated 500k immigrated -350k deaths over births 80k asylum claims of which 18k will be deported
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  1081. The markets will stand borrowing if its on infrastructure because the general long term return is > 100% of outlay tax cuts on the other had have a economic multiplier of around 20 -30 p in the pound (every pound the Treasury gives in say Bankers corporate tax cuts produces and increase in GDP of between .2 and .3 so effectively costing the treasury 70/80p in the £ in receipts)
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  1082.  @heliotropezzz333  Austerity will shrink the economy further the economic multiplier on public sector wages is around 1.6 combined with inflation your pulling billions out of GDP and wider low wage worker spending.
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  1083.  @heliotropezzz333  I thought Corbyn was a bit of a fantasist myself the City won't give any government any wiggle room. They know that Brexit is an economic car crash so anyone promising growth is talking to a political audience not reality. Labour can reverse some of the worst damage but they will be tied into what they can borrow for which is why Starmer was making the GBEnergy pitch. We have loads of excellent locations in the UK and UK offshore to supply all our own wind and tidal as well as a portion of Europe's and plenty of inventive people who can make a dint in the grid battery development world.
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  1084. Boris's coalition is built on a sacksfull of lies which are unravelling all the time. To keep it going he's alienating the vast majority of the centre and the centre right, the uneducated male voters that bought into the National populist agenda are pretty lost
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  1085.  @greattime860  appeasement never works Putinn wants Ukraine oil and gas wealth
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  1086.  @00YEV00  Russia is run as a Kleptocracy by Putin and his Oligarchs, the Russian people see nothing of its vast oil and gas wealth but grinding poverty, the levels of corruption crime and alcoholism are so endemic its pushed male life expectancy down to 72. Putin has also been laundering vast sums into gold in the anticipation of sanctions when he invades secure in the knowledge he can pay the large army, he cares nothing for the people his only aim is wealth and power
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  1087.  @seancrowe3353  No idea what your smoking the Tories have screwed everyone over Business workers middle class the lot and are solely on the side of the Billionaire / Millionaire class. Sunak's trickle down budget reinforces over a decade of failed Trickle down policies They've bled the working class that much the last budget hammers the middle class as well everyone over the next few years will pay +£1000 in tax and for what to give Millionaire pensioners tax breaks to ensure bankers have even bigger payouts and that energy companies can continue to make obscene profits in a rigged market
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  1088.  @Tom-nj1ib  No they didn't they asset striped the country used Oil revenues and bribed the boomer generation with a once in a lifetime near free housing. The rest of the money they stripped out went to the rich its a one of fire sale never to be repeated which screws every generation that follows OK Boomer
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  1089. GBEnergy and a green agenda taking back control of our vast natural resources? reforming the HOL and more devolved regional power breaking the London stranglehold?
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  1090. I'd like to see him loose his seat due to a suspension for lying to the house and then still be Prime Minister because his toadies won't put the knife in. Anyway at least he's highlighting how completely incompetent and corrupt the The Tories are at running the economy
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  1091. Not withstanding the fact that they lie all the time 90% of vehicles are already compliant the biggest group not are diesel vans they ran a scare campaign there just liers every last one of them
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  1092. Non of the Conservatives can there following a failed economic ideology in Thatcherism which is rooted in a cult like dogma We have decades of data showing it doesn't work but MSM don't want to talk about economics and how Thatcherism just keeps widening the wealth gap
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  1093. @ste77 Cameron oversaw a 7% increase in population while slashing services. It was estimated that 80% of hospitality workers in London where from the EU Now the bullk of them have gone back businesses are shutting down due to the lack of staff Hence taxes will keep going up
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  1094. 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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  1095. 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, also 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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  1096. If your borrowing 130 billion last year already what there saying is the cost of further borrowing will go up, there was no money for the last lot of tax cuts
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  1097. Laffer curve is junk economics it looks at one tax rate only
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  1098. we can cut usage by upgrading buildings with insulation and new windows I've just refurbished a 1935 house and took up all the floors insulated under them and installed a low temp underfloor system saves a fortune in running costs
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  1099. We borrowed 130 billion last year this will affect borrowing rates
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  1100. They've said there not going to raise tax on working people what's your problem
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  1101.  @mikegolfwhiskey71  There just leaving income tax were Sunak has put it for the time being with frozen thresholds till 2028 They've already said they would raise tax by other means such as more resources into HMRC to collect the 42 billion in uncollected taxes and closing off tax loopholes and removing a load of trickle down cr*p such as fossil subsidies.
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  1102. It's also the only time headline inflation will be 2% all indicators are with CPIH (includes housing costs) 2.8% and it's component OOH (owner occupiers) 6.7% there will be considerable uptick.
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  1103. He's not as bad as Truss to be fair no one is well maybe Braveman
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  1104. It isn't they just want them to die so there off the books
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  1105. If she had a brain then why isn't she using it? Pontificating about people's personal lives she may as well hang her boots up now her candidacy is over
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  1106. And the Conservatives put it there, the Cons have the worst economic record in modern history Real average earning using the government's own statistics have FALLEN by 3.45% under Cameron / May / Johnson If the slogan were true it would read "BUILD BACK POORER"
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  1107. ​@christopherblackburn6811 what's 100+ billion in unfunded tax cuts to a freemarketeer mere chump change to attract the chumps that believe that nonsense
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  1108. @taffyterrier  78% are given asylum if they got there act together they could be working in the economy and we'd not be housing 22% who are here illegally
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  1109.  @gdiwolverinemale2745  Green crap will save our economy Fossil crap will tie us into this escalating energy crisis which will get worse
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  1110. Because he's an entitled lying sack of shyte that only looks at himself and tomorrows headlines By the way Dorrie backed him apparently he gets all the big calls right, 1 would be good not really noticed any myself
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  1111. It was part of the post Thatcher Reagan NeoLiberal consensus, Blair had to move to the Centre to get elected and it was seen as useful after the Financial big bang. I guess Brown was busy stopping the Financial system melting down to remove it
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  1112. Boris The Don Johnson the ToryFather
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  1113. Never has so much parliamentary time been wasted on a pointless show pony What is it about the Johnson era that drives a whole party to loose thier minds and instead of fixing stuff tries to redefine reality. The only world beating thing about the Uk is its clown car government, truly the laughing stock of the world, what next a bill declaring the earth is flat?
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  1114.  @nw7654  get involved and make aa difference then
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  1115.  @Durka-Durka-101  no just pointing out it's the reason legal and illegal immigration has exploded completely out of control
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  1116.  @Gary-bz1rf  your forgetting that the English Nationalist wing of the Con party is why they have an 80 seat majority there killing the union
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  1117. ​@kierano8390 there's a few cover bands
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  1118. @Argenta Selling off the energy companies and unlike Norway leasing off the Oil and gas fields Norway set up a national company to manage the North Sea exploitation with profits going into a wealth fund Thatcher pissed it up the wall on tax cuts
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  1119. Err can we have a scandal free day? A Cat A Cat my Kingdom for a dead Cat
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  1120.  @gaz9957  C'mon he had to get back to record an interview to Lie about the claim he'd been cought lying A truly Johnsonian level piece of BS which the forelock tuggers would surly lap up
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  1121. Sunak has a degree in Economics, the rest will cripple the economy punting for billionaire backing from the tabloids and donors with promises of unfunded corporate tax cuts. There all evil just pick your poison carefully
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  1122. @michael dent It only feels overpopulated because the Tories broke all the nice things in it underfund the NHS underfund schools underfund road developments underfund public transport The UK birth rate is 1.65 it needs to be 2.1 to maintain the numbers as they are currently as well as enough young people to pay for the pensions of all the xenophobic masses they keep scaring with this relentless drumbeat of toxic anti-immigration rhetoric. so without substantial inward migration were all screwed
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  1123. Tories would sell your grandmother if they could no morals at all What do we get from a privatised energy system apart from higher bills they'll just piss the money away
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  1124. The Billion pound bill for "Cutting the Green Crap" Updated Carbon Brief analysis shows that energy bills would have been £9.5bn lower under the October price cap and £13bn lower in January, if successive Conservative-led governments had not rolled back climate policies over the past decade. (See Carbon Brief’s January article for methodology.) The savings would have been equivalent to £168 per household in October and £220 in January. These savings would have come from additional cheap renewable capacity, more efficient homes and new homes being built to zero-carbon standards.
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  1125.  @garylake1676  if DJT wins the US election he will instigate a trade war sending the uk economy into reccesion, the markets are jittery Leaving the EU was not a good idea
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  1126. ​ @sirgo0se97 we need more distrubted model, more domestic production plus storage. Most of the naysayers thinking is quite closed in big projects.
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  1127. It was half what it is now when we were in the EU its almost like I dunno cooperating with your neighbour has lots of benefits
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  1128.  @deneseburrell  just look agrivoltaic and don't say stupid things
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  1129. ​ @korolev-musictobashbrexitby to be fair Brown's recovery plan with the banks only cost 200+ billion the Tories have spent another 1.5 trillion since then not sure what on though
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  1130. Peaple are free to do what they want in their own time It's not like their funnelling 100's of millions of dollars into dark money packs as is the case for DJT and foreign billionaire's
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  1131. They pay tax through purchase taxes so file the crap in the bin
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  1132. Migration is fuelled by deregulating the Labour market which allows companies to fetch people in on the cheap Labour propose to regulate and get rid of zero hour as well as shut down government outsourcing
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  1133. Renewable energy is miles cheaper than gas which is the main driver of excessive costs
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  1134. why? These are just volunteers When Farage went over to the states he was funded by Dark Money
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  1135. The AUS model this is based on costs 1.6 million per refugee
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  1136.  Macavity  The Australian system on which this is based costs the government 1.6 million per refugee
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  1137.  @Inquisitor_Vex  completely irrelevant it depends on wars in regions near enough to travel. Also asylum applications granted are 80% so out of a sample of 10 your wasting 13.8 million
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  1138. @MR .TEA. A lot have relatives here and could be allowed to work while there being processed as 80% are given asylum. Its a process that's built to be as expensive and inefficient as possible.
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  1139. Because Hinkley C is 12 years under construction is delayed for another 3 years and the electricity it generates will be 4 times the cost of renewables by the time its commissioned.
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  1140. Corbyn has gone the Tories are dead with no way of turning anything round let alone the economy
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  1141.  @truckerfromreno  we've left the EU ages ago this is it get used to it, anyway why would NI want GB's stagflation? Since we left the EU major supermarkets and businesses rerouted supply chains through the South to avoid all the delays and red tape, the lorries that used to use the uk as a land bridge all now travel by ferry to the south where they drive up to NI Since 2016 the EU and Ireland have been upgrading infrastructure to ports and roads in preparation for a GB hard brexit GB and the unionists have nothing to negotiate with zip zero zilch
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  1142.  @Noel-ji8nm  It was the 1.2 Trillion in spending and Corbyn being a PeacNik Corbyn's popularity levels were in the toilet by 2019 instead of working toward a second referendum his own Hubris took over and he agreed to an early election
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  1143. The tax base remained constant for 2 decades at 33% till Sunak took charge try again
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  1144. And replace with who? Front bench are cut from the same cloth better he stays and fetches the whole lying house of cards down with him
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  1145. the sooner we transition the cheaper it will be Net zero = capital expenditure up front long term savings ex uprate school to A+ insulation running costs plummet across its life covering capital costs by year 4/5 Its RAAC 2.0 rob peter to pay tax cuts screw the public down the road
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  1146.  @annealbrecht396  why would anyone vote for them same feckless policies as the Tories with a different badge
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  1147. Taxes are going up they conveniently forget to mention fiscal drag which has raised +30 billion last year and thresholds are frozen till 2028 your 12250 threshold should be 14500 if adjusted for inflation
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  1148.  @pwimbledon  1.6 million per refugee based on the Australian data
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  1149.  @allip4226  I agree those where the Tory numbers at least Reeve is a graduate of the LSE
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  1150. It wont end well its already been assesed as a fire risk its designed for 250 and the government have spaffed money on doubling ocupancy to 500. What happens when facilities such as washrooms lounge space canteens have double the numbers the whole place will be a stinking disease pit. So how many billions is this performative cruelty costing us?
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  1151. Biden achieved in 4 years more than any other US president in history
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  1152. Immigration was the issue so they conned people into voting for Brexit May's Brexit deal wasn't hard enough so the Con was Boris's Oven ready deal Legal Immigration is even more an issue going from 200,000 to 1.25 million with 1/2 being dependants so now we need to leave all international treaties and send Asylum seekers to a concentration camp in East Africa But only 0.5% at a cost of 300 million with +50 million a year Am I not getting this coz to me it seems like our government are complete cretins and have been for a while
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  1153. Its just theatre for the xenophobic masses they feed this constant toxic anti migrant rhetoric so people don't look at real problems in their lives like the governments failed economic policies, huge waiting lists as the Tories try and outsource healthcare to their wealthy friends. Regressive taxes that target the poor and working class. "Hey look over here were wasting billions sending people to Rwanda then sticking our head back in the sand" "Vote for us we can be more cruel heartless and xenophobic than anyone else without ever dealing with the problem and waste loads of taxpayers money doing it" Next week they will be banging on about trans people again
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  1154.  @BedboundME  GBEnergy it will be the central theme of economic recovery which would over a decade or so produce 60/70% of UK energy. Reeve is a follower of Demand side Economics (investment in physical and social infrastructure) similar to what the Biden admin is doing but with more state control. Blaire was anti unwinding Thatcherism as in state control or additional spending the Tax code was made a lot more bottom up and minimum wage but we had fiasco's like Brown's PPP and using student loans to basically post forward into future accounting years debt a classic centerism solution. PPP should have just been public debt at that time we could have afforded it and student debt should be a graduate tax rather than the broken system we have now where its a tax buy another name and an inefficient one at that. I believe Starmer believes in the things he's pledged just not in the Left's cavalier way of implement them and as we've seen with the TRuss debacle the city won't give either party a blank cheque.
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  1155. Blair was all for removing the whip from Corbyn who voted against his party over 400 times but was talked out of it by Alistair Campbell Starmer is hedging against a slim majority by not having people in the party who won't vote things through because they don't go far enough we have no time for Purity tests
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  1156. Its not settled because the Brexit Ultra's are still trying to screw NI over and scrap the TCA which is barely keeping manufacturing and farming alive. There wanting a Singapore on Thames with City deregulation and fk everyone else
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  1157. Normal nuclear is 4 times more expensive than Renewables and micro reactors are still a pipe dream In the 10-15 years it would take to build and commission a nuclear plant its estimated battery prices will be 1/10th of current costs
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  1158. A lot of net zero is a complete no brainer win win The blue wall will collapse with this level of stupidity they want Charging infrastructure and Solar + Insulation incentives not do nothing Tory Bullsh1t
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  1159. Why?
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  1160.  @TehApolloEleven  This is incorrect last time Labour were in power and used the minimum wage to increase low pay general productivity rose. In 2010 our GDP per capita was 50,000 on par with the US it is now 45,000 having shrunk over the last 14 years and America's is 80,000. Suppressing pay and creating a low wage economy encourages businesses to not invest and use cheap labour instead. and The same applies to the public sector.
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  1161.  @leemccccccc999  Cutting public sector jobs made it worse, lengthened the recession and created some of the long term economic problems we have today. I'm retired studied economics when they made sense in John Maynard Keynes. The cr*p pedalled by Osborne was widely disproved as junk and the paper it was based on was riddled with errors found by a student trying to duplicate their workings in 2012. Even when it was disproved Osborne kept steaming ahead. quote Keynes developed this first systematic theory of employment. The Keynesian theory of employment states that the cause of unemployment is the deficiency of effective demand, and unemployment can be removed by raising effective demand. With the increase in effective demand, the production in the economy goes up. and his answer the state creates the jobs creating demand Hence FDR and the new deal
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  1162. They lost in 2017 it was obvious then that Labour had squeezed every drop from a hard left vote and Corbyn should have left then
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  1163. Gove needs to go for a drive to test his eyesight again at least then we wouldn't have to listen to the contorted drivel he comes up with. Bunch of usless lying donkeys the lot of them.
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  1164. They've expanded government with Brexit all the red tape on customs for import / export is through the roof they need thousands of customs officers and new infrastructure as well as hundreds of vets
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  1165.  @niburu1508  Corbyn had +12% approval in the polls but went to the country anway the guy was a waste of space no one was ever going to let him spend over a trillion on a socialist fantasy project
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  1166.  @Reviewingthesituation  Basic your vote on a fake media culture war isn't the brightest thing to do
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  1167. What's your point I mean we've been running the economy on migrants for hundreds of years
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  1168. no idea why he accepted her hope she's not the labour candidate at the next election
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  1169. It was half what it is now when we were in the EU its almost like I dunno cooperating with your neighbour has lots of benefits @user-fg5zx4gz1z 
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  1170. Its a long term plan out in 5 minutes decades to get back in I'm afraid
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  1171.  @DavidBritton-nl1wv  DJT has vowed to put 20% on every import cratering the US and our economy. If we were in the single market we would have a buffer and be able to retaliate
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  1172. Its cruel inhumane and based on the Australian model will cost 1.6 million per refugee Also 80% of Asylum applicants are granted all we are doing is making the system as lengthy and as expensive as possible for us the taxpayer Why? so politicians can go stir up the masses claim there doing something and the idiots in the country will keep voting them in despite the highest taxation in 82 years and the worst economy in 150 Its the classic look over there cough Trans
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  1173. Don't forget the vomiting on the carpet so as to give the minimum wage cleaners something to do and rub their noses in the fact that hell yea their Xmas was going to be completely shyte in tier 2 lock down rules.
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  1174. Made me laugh Trump is no fool, he's senile old man that is loosing the plot on a daily basis
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  1175.  @pearl2910  he's as thick as mince his tarrif plan will spark a trade war depressing 3 trillion in US exports adding $4,000 a year in sales taxes to the average household, permanently damage UK exports to the US and plunge the economy into reccesion with huge job losses.
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  1176. so patriotic he lied his ar5e off disrespecting the electorate on Tuesday then flew back to lie about the lie to ITV disrespecting veterans while calling for national service
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  1177. I'd need a sick bag after that thought but anyway there well may be some Quote Aides 'had sex' in 10 Downing Street party night before Duke of Edinburgh's funeral, reports say A number of witnesses reported seeing two separate couples become intimate while the rest of the nation couldn't see loved ones EndQuote
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  1178.  @childofthe60s100  Its called vapourware in IT circles
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  1179. Any cabinet minister with an ounce of dignity should resign rather than come on TV and prostrate their lack of moral fibre in front of the country washing down the sewer any reputation they had. Johnson just taints and corrupts everything round him
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  1180.  @markohenry5891  we had prosperity with Blaire/Brown and 12 yeears of Austerity with now 4 Con leaders. Well over a decade of economic stagnation and mismanagement yet your saying this shtshw could somehow be worse? Example 1 if Cameron hadn't cut the so called green crap UK consumers and government would have spent over 100 billion less on energy. So stick that in your frak pipe and have a good toke that's from rolling back just 1 labour policy
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  1181.  @markohenry5891  go look at the data before shooting your mouth off about no money Under Blair/Brown we had a consistent deficit of around 45% debt to gdp ultra low borrowing costs and an average growth of between 2.5 & 3% In 2010 after Brown had largely dealt with the world banking crisis it was 62% expected to rise over the next couple of years before falling as the economy grew. The Cameron administration closed the economy completely down by removing 40 billion from the public sector to put that into context of the 40 billion 1/3 would go back in taxes it generates a multiplier in the economy of 1.6 so your effectively removing 104 billion from the economy or = 4.3% gdp or 34.66 billionin taxation This economic cluster fk was made even worse by Cameron in 2015 with unfunded corporate tax cuts which drove up the deficit by 2019 to 92% of GDP 12 years on numerous Academic papers from the likes of the LSE telling them tax cuts + Austerity has the opposite effect to the bilge of lies there pu ping out and here we are At least Rachel Reeve has an economics degree and studied the the catastrophic effects of Austerity + Tax cuts +Energy Policy + Brexit on the pitiful state of our economy My bill is in the post for the compressed economics lesson now go read some of the academic papers from the LSE on this topic and learn
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  1182. It won't for a couple of reasons were producing less food government policies are to run our agriculture down and import cheap problem is food prices are going up plus home energy production
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  1183. Economy is on its knees we've been the worst on average in the g7 since 2010
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  1184. no they won't why make stuff up
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  1185. What pain? I had a solar battery installation this year the capital payback is under 6 years when I sized this up 3 years ago it was 15 years Reasons its gone down Battery prices have halved since then & my provider offers a cheap overnight tariff which utilises always on wind generation. Just time shifting with the battery alone to etilise the cheap rate saves 40%
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  1186.  @acthompson9983  it's not like an English Prince being involved with a multinational grooming gang that had affected thousands of girls while the establishment turned a blind eye Or Edwina Currie handing the keys to Broadmoor to Savvile?
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  1187. Renewables are cheaper by a long way and reached the event horizon in 2019 the government is giving out billions in subsidies to fossil to open up new oil and gas fields with zero tax returned. It's also subsising cleanup of old equipment to the tune of 67 billion Fossil is a multi national racket
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  1188.  @darrenwilson146  MSM were all in for herd immunity and have been banging the get back on the wheel drum pretty much from the beginning citing the economy and pumping out drivel like 200 deaths a day isn't that bad and look at flu road deaths or a 100 and 1 irrelevant points to distract. What's Johnsons complete moral failure as a leader got to do with it either, Johnson is a lazy incompetent entitled liar, he's that bad he had to apologise to the Queen within weeks of taking office. The UK economy is the worst its been over the last few years in over 200 years negative wage growth and stagnant gdp as bumble head limps from day to day
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  1189. What's wrong with a chancellor who has an economics degree from the LSE and experience of working in the BOE and a party that isn't ideologically wedded to brexit which has sent migration through the roof?
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  1190. The real challenge is how do we survive another 2 years of these lying assclowns Monday they give Doris a free pass for lying his sorry arse-off in Parliament rest of the week he's planning again to break international treaties twice and lie about it in Parliament again
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  1191. There could be many twists and turns? I don't think so the brexit mess is eating the right alive
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  1192. he wasn't going at all, and the half-day visit was a compromise! after throwing bullsh1t at the wall on Teusday like a pound shop Johnson now this?
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  1193. As a Green card holder he's broken US law by standing for an election in a foreign country, its a commitment and the first stage to become a US citizen
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  1194. since when has doing stupid evil to refugees and othering minorities been common sense currently pushing offshore concentration camps is deemed sensible give your head a wobble
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  1195. there cutting yet more infrastructure projects its just RAAC 2.0 rob budgets today and have to pay x1000 the day after tomorrow when we get caught. Meanwhile use said plunder to promise tax cuts have snap election pray the plebs fall for it
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  1196. The so called working class especially males voted on a Nationalist populist agenda against their own economic interests. Go look at the voting demographic changes, if labour are to win a majority they need to get more of the younger educated voter to turn out trying to deprogram someone who's had thier brain bombarded with ukip mush isn't going to happen.
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  1197. Thier aiming at SME'S who employ 60% of the uk workforce
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  1198. we have banned affordable transport the tories sold off anything that would make working people better off including the railways
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  1199.  @andersondasilva1334  that's baked in its by how much, with the nutball right wing of the Con party in charge it could collapse support altogether and they will get rogered from all sides. The support in rural areas is collapsing to the Lib dems
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  1200. Small business is now NI exempt they increased the thresholds Reason this raises so much money is the City and its impact on higher salaries
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  1201. If they were all the same then they would be clones with identical polocies
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  1202. Goods exports by volume is down 7% on 2019 there was a recent FT article on it. Services should be higher than they are we've bled business to Europe
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  1203. @wiseget Lord Ali isn't connected to climate denial think tanks received millions in opaque donations from billionaires, fossil lobbyists, tabbaco lobbyists and big Pharma
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  1204. The BBC contributes +8 billion in tax through additional gdp it creates than it costs in licence fee
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  1205. Mandating a cut off point creates the environment to get your sh1t together and do something rather than the government attitude of do nothing till your forced to Ex RAAC EV sales will explode whatever the Tories don't do and they'll get it in the neck for not investing in infrastructure Also Driverless transport is just around the corner
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  1206. What hypocrisy Johnson lies on an industrial scale this isn't political spin he turns up at the dispatch box and guff's off with a box of lies every week. No border down the Irish sea - Border down the Irish Sea Oven ready deal - Johnson's Brexit is a complete abortion and killing GB businesses Low Tax Tories - Highest personal taxation since WW2 Best economy in the G7 - were last with projected inflation to go to 10% and no growth I'd even vote for the SNP over this bunch of criminals that are literally killing our country and I'm from Yorkshire
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  1207. Build the houses in factories for assembly onsite Don't make them out of brick
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  1208.  @bond2764  Impossible if there only experience is driving LGV lorries, aside from that there not paid to run around patching up Doris's mistakes
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  1209. The issue isn't with storage but the decision by Cameron to as he put it cut the green cr@p and enable the dash for gas. Having put all our eggs in 1 basket our government payed out 72 billion in energy subsidies in 2023 because of his decision
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  1210.  @californiadreamin8423  what's going to happen when Farage finds out Sue Gray wants to shut the bars down during the day to stop the drinking culture 🤔
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  1211. Worst economy in living memory 8 trillion onto debt and one of the major causes of the current inflation By the numbers +50% debt +40% balance of trade -3.6% GDP -3 million jobs -3 million without health insurance The US would go bankrupt with another Trump Presidency
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  1212.  @Dunk1970  This is incorrect The Conservatives have borrowed 1.6 trillion since 2010 and Blair / Brown borrowed around 300 billion also the tax base was 33% for 2 decades till Johnson took charge it's now 37%
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  1213. There putting up taxes it's an illusion, fiscal drag + corporation tax + 130 billion in borrowing
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  1214. Its worse than that the way government spend on public sector salaries works means that it creates a money / tax merry go round in the economy so the real cost to the Treasury when the money wheel of taxation and spend stops is 20p in the pound.
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  1215. Thats true so why aren't we putting all our efforts to come up with a joint solution with the EU to break the criminal gangs instead of what can only be regarded as Political theatre to rile up the masses
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  1216.  @TheMercWithMouth  not to mention removing FOM has actively increased migration
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  1217. Ukrainians are fighting for thier lives many would be executed or interned into Gulags if he managed to take over Ukraine
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  1218.  @Razmatazuk  and government money on public services costs the treasury a fraction of what they claim due to the tax and subsequent spend merry go round in the economy. Generally its 20p in every pound Just think about it the 1st thing that happens to the rise is it gets taxed Economists have put the Real bill for a 10% rise as 0.66 billion
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  1219. Last I heard it was 14% that was a reliable source and this week
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  1220.  @Tiredmum  fair enough 14 must be last weeks figure our inflation food bill is even higher than that my son is Celiac (gluten free) most of the essentials have doubled in price part down to Brexit though
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  1221. I was thinking that what right thing? @jonathanfell688 
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  1222.  @andrewrcmadwilkinson6999  15 minute cities are a great idea put people before cars
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  1223. They don't want to raise taxes on working people because that would affect their primary aim of growing GDP per capita and improving people's wages after 14 years of stagnation which is what they see as the way to a second term
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  1224. Most in the media are centrist,
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  1225.  @johndonson1603  remove all the trickle down cr*p the Tories have put in over the last 14 years ex - there's almost 70 billion in fossil subsidies and tax breaks for various reasons in the system
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  1226. Elect clowns expect a Circus Driving a JCB through polystyrene bricks is about this numpties level GET CBI SPEECH DONE
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  1227. @jjefferyworboys8138  they contribute nothing to the economy bar driving up house prices in Mayfair Thier money is locked up in assets its useless and what isn't is off shored and working people pay the price of this outward money flow.
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  1228.  @beanhole123  They've lost that one if they could have got Zalenzky to cut and run within a couple of days then maybe but any Putin Puppet will be seen as a traitor now he's galvanised the country its effectively ungovernable without using Russian troops as a standing occupation force. Ukraine is the size of France or Texas with a 40+ million population Kiev is the size of Chicago
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  1229. One wants to issue unlimited Oil and Gas Licences The Other Has a plan to turbo charge Renewable Energy transition reducing costs to consumers by switching away from Price Volatile world fossil commodity prices Its like comparing apples with a bucket of concrete
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  1230. Renewable investment has an economic multiplier of 1.6 its not a sunk cost so your 28 billion investment will produce a return of 44.8 billion
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  1231.  @twinsenstwinsens  breathing is kind of a necessity
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  1232.  @philtration-Em11  Communism isn't an Authoritarian ideology it gets swamped by Left wing Fascism same result as the right wing variant but different players.
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  1233. LOL another own goal ahead from InActionMan Its almost like 13 Years of Austerity + Trickle down Thatcherism + Brexit are finally being understood by the public that the Tories couldn't run a bath never mind an economy
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  1234. That's common sense but doesn't push money into their corporate masters so They'll BS about corporate tax cuts fuelling growth and give the Billionaire class a fat tax cut which will fuel inflation even further and end up ballooning the debt
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  1235. obviously NHS hospitals were run like student halls of residence on final exam party nights all the time, I mean it stands to reason nurses need to get sht faced and throw up on the carpets while the doctors were spilling wine on the walls they were that drunk. False comparison whataboutisms Kev
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  1236. I think the idea is they starve and freeze to death reducing the amount the government are paying out in pensions and Universal Credit (of which 80% on UC are in work poverty) They don't see them as people just commodities on a spreadsheet the current mob are clueless as well as heartless and the poor aren't going to vote Tory anyway so why should they care.
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  1237. It's the Conservative way donors and big business first fk everyone else Just look at their attitude to the water sewage problem, putting corporate profits over a windfall tax on energy etc etc
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  1238.  @Watch-Crazy  people enter politics for all sorts of reasons Kier was a prominent human rights lawyer before 50+ of the Tory MP'S have lobbying jobs there never going to change the rules May earns 450k Javid 200k Hancock was alli in on Paterson donor contracts So no there not all the same and the level of narcissism currently being displayed is at levels that should be treated by mental health professionals, people with a car crash of a personal life have multiple mental health issues from narcissism sociopath low esteem etc. What pisses me off more is the Jonson enablers and that he surrounds himself with the absolute garbage that's in the Con party and they let him.
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  1239. no @stequality 
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  1240. Truly depressing my dad came settled after the war he'd been in a Russian gulag then joined the Polish free army the rest of his family or what was left of them settled in Chicago his 11 year old brother and 10 year old sister died of malnutrition on a cattle truck on he way out of Russia. We are truly heading into Oswald Mosley territory
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