Comments by "Greg Greg" (@SlowhandGreg) on "Good Morning Britain" channel.

  1. Par for the course for MP'S of all stripes I'm afraid
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  2. Were just coming out of a 2 year recession in which living standards fell by an average of 4.2% This and the fact that this is the 1st time in political history that people are worse off than they were 5 years ago.
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  3. Taxes are going up no matter what the Tory toss3rs say Thresholds frozen is 12250 should be 15000 Corporation tax from 19% up to 25% and quote from fullfact there are an estimated 16% fewer ‘frontline’ officers since 2010. After accounting for population growth, the number of frontline officers per person has fallen 21%
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  4. Given that migration is driven by lack of investment it would take a minimum of 4 years to get nurses trained to alleviate the shortages being filled domestic nurses this will take over a decade to sort out minimum.
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  5.  @Raw_Fiction  It's £500,000 for a relative and you can use both parents allowances making it 1 million also both my and my wife's SIPP is exempt till were 75
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  6. Yea get migrant workers instead dohhhh
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  7. @LesleyWright-g5v  what damage? Whatever they do is chickened compared to leaving the single market, loosing 25% of the value of our currency and wiping 425 billion off the value of pensions and putting everyone mortgage up
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  8. Highest denomination in the UK is Atheist at 50%
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  9.  @eddieingalls534  so you want to keep importing doctors from the 3rd world like the Tories did quote If in power, Labour would seek to scrap the current rule which allows employers to pay overseas workers 20% less than the equivalent domestic wage if the migrant will be filling a vacancy on the Shortage Occupation List (SOL).
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  10. For a functioning economy we need 2.1 children we currently are having around 1.5
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  11. Means testing the WFA is hardly going after pensioners especially given the state of the economy
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  12. Around 85% of us don't need it. Instead of buying blankets i bought insulation now the heating doesn't need to be on, the Tories scrapped all the insulation programs and building standards aren't up to the task. Also fitting it keeps you warm
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  13. @ilsehunt6798  Channeling the money into insulation and renewable energy projects will reduce bills permanently. Our energy is the most expensive in Europe we have the worst insulated houses in Europe all down to privatisation and rolling back the last Labour government's green agenda.
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  14. @edthompson9337  low wage economy 40% are on in work benifit + housing support This has been going on since the 2010 budget it will take a decade at least to turn around.
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  15. Budget plans risk ‘second lost decade’ of living standards, Jeremy Hunt told. 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. Long term productivity is driven by investment and tax cuts don't grow the economy (they borrowed 130 billion last year and debt to GDP is 100%)
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  16.  @brianfoster1078  nothing they could do is remotely comparable to Austerity Brexit Truss then Sunak
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  17. Better social conditions make the country more prosperous
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  18. Part of the costings claimed that fetching processes in house instead of outsourcing would cost 7.5% extra so you've even got a lie within a lie The spectator also costed the Tory spending promises and they added up to £3,000 and Sky calculated that the Tories had put up tax since 2019 equivalent to £13,000 Maybe Sunak wanted the extra maths course for J H unt
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  19. Successive governments have poured 100's of billions into into right to buy, you also get huge tax breaks on pensions and savings and current IHT is 1 million for a couple so there's no reason to do much with it
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  20. @ilsehunt6798  Labour have expressed renewable projects through the system, nationalised two key parts of our energy infrastructure, removed the onshore wind ban, are reviewing how to get pylons built removing nimby objections. There commiting +8 billion to future renewable infrastructure with the aim of getting 24 billion in private investment Last year the government spent 72 billion on energy subsidies to keep bills down to the privatised companies. it's totally unsustainable. I'm a pensioner as well full stamp etc. How do you think the Tories were going to cover the financial black hole their NI cuts created? My guess is rack up the pension age to 68 By the way public sector pay is in real terms still lower than it was 5 years ago all the rises have done is part compensate for wage suppression and inflation.
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  21. Energy is way lower cost wise than last year and we're expected to go into a price dip in 2025 as electric falls with new capacity coming online So you haven't had the heating and oven on for a year?
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  22. once you have a majority of 1 you can basically do what you like, Cameron rammed Austerity down our throats hiked the pension age and increase VAT by 5% with only 36% of the vote on both occasions
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  23.  andrewharper1609  yet Blair / Brown oversaw +20% wage growth, strong economic growth and well funded public services
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  24.  @mogznwaz  we weren't in the Eurozone so could have done it our own way and the EU stopped recommending Austerity measures in 2012 when the data showed it was shrinking economies not reducing debt. Osborne ignored the advice of the EU commission and the IMF and kept shrinking the economy
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  25. How come they've deported 10,000 migrants already + taken part in busting an international smuggling ring.
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  26. It's irrelevant the whole thing is unfunded and made up you can't have a rational conversation about complete bullsh1t
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  27. People don't realise how a 5% hike in VAT is a much higher tax on middle and working class than say a drop in NI. +5% is an additional 42 billion a 4 point drop in NI is 18 billion
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  28. Reform don't have any viable policies there just a FogHorn of gesture politics
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  29.  @gyrovids9462  bout sums the clown up will he be doing pantomime this exmas?
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  30. give it a break the limit is 1 million for a couple
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  31. If the numbers are nonsense report her to the parliamentary standards body for lying to parliament? what's that - tumbleweed
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  32.  @lindabowman2868  The £1 million figure can only be achieved by married couples who decide to leave their entire estates to each other on death. Gifts to spouses are exempt so the first spouse to die would not use any of their available allowances. The survivor would then transfer the unused Nil Rate Band and RNRB to their estates. Nil rate = 325k, RNRB = 175k * 2 = 1 million also SIPPS if the person dies before they are 75 they are tax free and don't count towards your nil rate allowance.
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  33. You can't that's why all the Tory solutions fail If you tackle the traffickers you can get it down from a flood to a trickle
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  34. Are you a pensioner or are you buying into the media's faux outrage? I am and for 80% of us we don't need it we need a functioning NHS and care system which the Tories have run into the ground with the hopes of privatising it for their mates.
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  35. @Popeye209  would you rather have the Cons in who were going to jack the pension age up to 68 father erode NI and privatisation of the NHS?
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  36. Its all unfunded fantasy stuff so why should we vote for yet another liar?
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  37.  @julieknights1238  there's extra capacity coming online and demand is down. People like me have upgraded thier insulation, I've also had thermal solar for a few years now. Builders I had do it are spreading the word on secondary insulation. New Labour were all in on insulation giving out grants to upgrade your property wonder if the current lot will have an insulation push?
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  38. Who instigated an unfunded NI cut of 20 billion to bribe the electorate and got it past the OBR by lying about budgets?
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  39. Are you a pensioner or are you buying into the media's faux outrage? I am and for 80% of us we don't need it we need a functioning NHS and care system which the Tories have run into the ground with the hopes of privatising it for their mates. 10% will still get it the issue is those that fall through the cracks, this is bad PR and badly implemented but say sorry why there trying to fix the economy rather than have anther 5 years of short term boosterism piled onto debt
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  40. We're getting an over inflation rise of 400+ this year
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  41.  @supremeworld87  Pensioners are getting £460 in April 8.5%
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  42. Starmer is an Arsenal season ticket holder has been for decades
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  43. Even Thatcherism is proving to be an unlimited disaster with Water companies pumping sewage into the rivers odebt fueled on the edge of Bancrupcy and Brexit is an economic train wreck
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  44. @jeffsimon9594 course it is, if you don't train public service workers + suppress pay you create a huge pull factor and if you remove FOM the number of dependents explode giving you nearly a million a year. Tory economic policies for you spend money on nothing but tax cuts and patch up services with migration.
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  45. What's the alternative? Both right wing parties won't own up to the utter shambles Brexit has caused even quadrupling migration.
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  46. @Carlotta-x3c  why are you connecting political turmoil to our economic downturn? Our gdp would be +5% at least that's = near 60 billion in extra revenue for the exchequer or have you not noticed our tax base has risen since 2019 from 33% to 37% and will rise further. How about our migration quadrupling since loosing FOM, dig into the stats and we're recruiting from the 3rd world with 50% now being dependents because there coming from thousands of miles away. We are absolutely shafted as far as trade goes till we get back access to the single market
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  47.  @patriciafurlongifi  And replace with what exactly?
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  48. There both putting up income tax Sunak froze the Thresholds till 2028, he can't be claiming to lower tax either the NI cut affects people o 32k-55k outside that narrow band everyone else got a tax hike the lower you were paid or a pensioner got hammered.
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  49. Tax base has gone up to 38% the thinking is that the Tories are p1ssing billions up the wall on useless trickle down tax breaks removing them doesn't affect working people ex those on PAYE
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  50. If they hadn't repealed the fixed term Parliament act it would have been yesterday The longer they leave it the worse it gets last year the poll of polls gave them 28% there down to 23% and yougov gave them their lowest figure ever of 18%
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