Comments by "Greg Greg" (@SlowhandGreg) on "The Independent" channel.

  1. Soo selling it to an offshore billionaire instead is OK?
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  2. And yet Boris is still PM after standing up in Parliament and saying I gave a tax bung to my mate Tip of the iceberg this lot are entailed arrogant and incompetent in no particular order they really don't see wide scale corruption as a problem SERCO cough SERCO
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  3. Why do you pedal this garbage? We've had 13 years of hard right Stagnating Thatcherism before that we had +25% wage growth We are now officially poorer than we were in 2006 just stick your BS
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  4. They increased the threshold for NI, businesses employing 4 or less won't pay anything Get a better accountant
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  5.  @bensanders2944  older voters saw Corbyn as a throwback someone who was trying to roll back time to the pre Thatcher era and he got the same Treatment as Michael Foot did when he tried it a complete electoral thumping. People need to look forward not back and the Cons played Corbyn like a fiddle
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  6. Its not the civil service that's the issue its rushed or lax regulations, the Fish rots from the Head down
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  7. Oh I wish we had a free press, free from the likes of Murdoch and the rags he owns pedalling a litany of lies We have a major climate crisis and the government pedals suppression of demonstrators
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  8. after 14 years of declining wages Id have voted for a Labrador rather than a Tory
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  9. Corbyn lost by a landslide and one of the reasons was this constant wanting to discuss degrees of an open and closed argument. Whining on that his tenure was better than the previous is just stupidity
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  10. On a scale of 1 - 10 for being out of touch I'd give Boris a resounding 10 along with most of his cabinet Kier gets a 5 Rayner a 2 Reeve a 4 Milliband a 5 When you dig into it the Tories are just on another planet
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  11.  @mra9248  no it doesn't
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  12. The Tories mini budget 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 Plus Each point of GDP fetches in approx 8 billion to the treasury so +20 billion tax cuts are 45 billion per annum loss plus interest on debt repayment The only place you can get any growth with this plan is the City and screw everyone else
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  13. @S1Rossco  i could run my House for around 2- 3 days on an EV battery if I had one. The point of this is we have the tech to mesh network EV batteries into the grid, this both flattens and fattens the duck curve as well as providing Grid Resilience
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  14. ​ @ary6039 no it doesn't it needs rid of trickle down supply side economics aka Thatcherism Even the high legal immigration is the result of Thatcherite economic policy running down investment in training UK staff so we have to import skills
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  15. Average wages adjusted for inflation poor guy like the rest of us he can't afford a CONservative government 1990 £32,638 2010 £38,263 +17.2% 2015 £36,507 -4.6% 2019 £37,247 -2.7% 2023 £34,963 -6.1%
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  16.  @jgmediting7770  no they weren't I'm 65 we went through this with Michael Foot another out of touch crusty leftie who gave hope to reversing Thatcherism even Kinnock couldn't repair the damage Labour ended up having to swing completely to the centre under Blair to kick the Tories out. Starters bunch are centre left if you keep up with the nostalgia well be stuck with the Tories for life
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  17.  @QUEEG500_  the ministers fetch in advisers and a lot of the thanks to Domonic Cummings who now have what can be regarded as group think. The civil servants aren't listened too anymore because the people they fetched in know better or rather they think they do because like you blame it on the civil service. The current lot don't want experts and they don't want alternative opinions or reasoned arguments why ther ideas aren't good enough
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  18.  @KS-kn9tn  In the fact anyone could do better than this current government
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  19. They did exactly what they said in the manifesto
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  20. ​ @Witchfinder.General Country was a lot better in 2010 than it was in 1997 Current disposable income has regressed to 2006 and Rhishi hasn't finished yet
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  21. Thatcher destroyed whole communities, Thatcherism is a plague that is eating this country away to this day. The economic mantra that drives it Supply Side Economics needs a constant Stream of Supply side Labour to feed it. So the it was great in the 90's is BS the Tories spent the years asset stripping which has lead us to this point today  @Witchfinder.General 
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  22. There's a 60% mandate on made in America to get your EV discount 800,000 manufacturing jobs created in 2 years all the money being poured into the renewable agenda is being matched by private business . As an economist I've not seen this ilevel of public / private investment since the moonshot era, the innovation that came out of that era is still powering parts of the US economy today
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  23. The reason he has a 20+ point lead is because he's tacked to the centre centre-left while the Tories are busy sailing into hard right lala land Not only will the centre centre left vote for him but so will the centre right Most people want a house to live + decent schools and a functioning NHS
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  24. we have the lowest tax base in major European economies Thatcher kept it low with oil money and asset stripping over the last 14 years the Tories have piled it onto debt Brex1t was literally the sh1t hitting the economic fan
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  25. Since when did parliment have any meaningful debate or vote
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  26. the majority of people see it for what it is a dog and pony show for the Gammons p1ssing billions away in pursuit of the unobtainable @benkeegans9349 
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  27. Still better than a Tory
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  28. She's a Libertarian like Truss supply side rules deregulate everything profit over people What don't the public get about these people there never going to govern in the public interest
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  29. Both of them are lowlifes and opportunists wouldn't trust either
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  30.  @Speedkam  Asset - Its willing manipulation, there too stupid to know there being used
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  31. Having your home insulated to A+ standard saves huge amounts of energy and money on heating and cooling which is what California has introduced to their building code at which point you can run your home from an EV battery in cold weather for 2 days without replenishing with solar
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  32.  @jgmediting7770  Rachel Reeve has been spelling out Labour economic and green policy, if you don't want a thing to be so you deliberately look the other way The information is barley a click away yet you focus on mainstream right wing media soundbites claiming that their agenda is Labour's, I have to say its a lazy way of thinking I know the mainstream pumps out and focuses on the scandals but still.
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  33. Why are we not investing in tidal we are geographically uniquely placed to make use of both wind and tidal
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  34.  @stevec6427  the initial cost is quite high but that will come down as you develop and scale the technology Its biggest drawback is its more distributed so open to smaller multiple locations which large energy companies aren't keen on Look up Swansea tidal lagoon and Orkney Tidal Turbine in the google machine
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  35.  @reubenmorse7333  there a bunch of elites spouting Populism to disguise thier pro corporate pro Billionaire economic agenda If you want to change things you need to raise taxes on the wealthy who the Cons have been handing out tax breaks like confetti and Reform want an even more extreme version of Socialism for the rich Capitalism for the poor Trickle down has never worked never will
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  36.  @jameswood240  I take it you want to leave every international treaty we have including all the trade ones + the UN so you can do performative cruelty on refugees? And If you try doing sh1t like that youll get sanctions levied against you by the US and EU grow up and use your brain don't start parroting populist cr@p that has zero thought process put into it and is just for theatre to fool the gullible
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  37.  @thesmudge1353  Tory Austerity and economic policy has been driving our economy into the ground. 1st time we get some investment your moaning like a bartie sheep
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  38. you freeze the turd in nitrogen saw it on mythbusters ;) @milsub59 
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  39. ​@ConradAinger no he couldn't why do you pedal this BS
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  40. ​@shahzadakram4667 Labour will do the following Labour law reform including gig economy regulation Planning reform Reduce NHS waiting lists Fix school buildings Further education reform Standards realignment with the EU reading delays and paperwork Grid expansion and switch to renewables fetching energy prices down Removal of hundreds of Trickle down tax breaks Unfreeze tax thresholds The list is pretty endless lot of work needs doing
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  41. Right wing economics got us here and you want more of the same but harder are you insane have you not been screwed enough by right wing elites lying to you?
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  42. Rachel Reeve has been spelling out Labour economic and green policy, if you don't want a thing to be so you deliberately look the other way The information is barley a click away yet you focus on mainstream right wing media soundbites claiming that their agenda is Labour's, I have to say its a lazy way of thinking I know the mainstream pumps out and focuses on the scandals but still.
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  43. Can anyone explain who the 1 in 5 are who would still vote for this shower Xxxx would be worse no longer cuts it Whats below the bottom of the barrel dirt? We digging under there now?
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  44. Labour under Blair Brown had +25% wage growth when was the last time we had wage growth? mmmm under Blair / Brown
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  45. No there not the Tories want you think that way so you turn a blind eye to ther corruption
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  46. What's the difference between the 2 can't see any myself there both lowlife opportunists
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  47. You'd need to opt out from nearly every international treaty on the books including a vast amount of trade ones, our economy is collapsing as it is without giving it a good kicking
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  48. No there not to do batsh1t stuff you'd need to leave nearly every international agreement including trade ones such as The TCA, Good Friday Agreement, UNCHR, ECHR etc. Its stupid evil that p1sses billions up the wall @mikereger1186 
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  49.  @stevec6427  The thing is we are uniquely placed to make use of Tidal energy it just needs investment, it also has low running costs and doesn't have the waste processing problem.
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  50. ​ @ed4270 there's not enough stupid people around to vote for an even more extreme version of the current clown show If you hadn't worked it out yet the economic mess and high legal immigration is the result of right wing economic policy swaping for a more extreme version just accelerates the economic decline
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  51. Sunak tried a scorched earth strategy to hem Labour in so they had nothing to spend for 2 years with unfunded NI cuts I thought it was best of a bad job really
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  52. The current lot have been over for a course
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  53. They'll process the asylum claims in a timely manner saving around 3.5 billion a year we've 40,000 here who if their cases were processed would have been sent back already this government is p1ssing billions up the wall
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  54. Have you looked at Labour economic policy? It's lightyears different to the Cons
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  55. Yep we got more investment in the NHS and Schools as well as establishing a green energy priority exactly what I voted for
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  56.  @shogunai  we've had 14 years of thatcherite economics which has crushed the economy You can't grow unless you invest, the Tories don't invest hence we've got poorer
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  57. If you sort out the Asylum backlog and requests you wouldn't have desperate people fleeing from wars who've lost everything taking actions feeling they have nothing to loose. Process the cases asap deport the economic migrants Lets be clear 90% of this is on our own heads with actions taken in the west's endless pursuit of oil and if you think this is bad wait till climate change destabilises populations causing mass migration
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  58. Renewable energy input is free and inflation proof once you've built the infrastructure Fossil based generation is subject to inflation, transportation costs and extraction costs. In 10 years Wind will still be Free
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  59. @S1Rossco  Even if you weren't moving to renewable energy you'd still implement battery storage at grid nodes it saves 30% on costs whatever your source Estimates for turbine life are 25 years for both on and offshore costs. Last I looked onshore was the cheapest on the grid at 38, dogger has a contract price of 42 in comparison Hinkley C is already at 110 (if it ever comes online) The latest estimates for Offshore have seen a 2% drop in real term infrastructure costs but this is offset by inflation and interest rate rises the private sector are wanting around 52 as a forward contract price.
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  60. we've had 14 years of austerity we voted for better hospitals and schools, I would vote the same way tomorrow
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  61. Yet it's the most efficient in Europe because it's publicly funded no middle men
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  62. She's a Libertarian like Truss supply side rules deregulate everything profit over people What don't the public get about these people there never going to govern in the public interest
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  63. She has a degree from the LSE and worked in the BOE, the budget given the state of the countries finances was a pretty good one Sunak played politics and spent 20 billion on an unfunded NI cut to try hem labour in so they wasted their 1st 2 years in office with no money for their priorities
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  64. Fox is a toilet of disinformation run by one of the most corrupt people in business Murdock publications fuel lies and disinformation on both sides of the Atlantic, their operating moto is nothing is too outrageous to prop up the 1% and screw the rest
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  65. Get your home properly insulated then. Just bought a heat pump tumble dryer Marvellous thing running cost are 45£ a year but wait I have solar so thats free most of the time
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  66. Fossil energy is subject to inflation, extraction costs and transportation last time I looked wind was still free
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  67. Its a dog and pony show to get you all riled up of 80,000 asylum seekers only 62,000 will be granted with 18,000 deported That's a nothing number in terms of a population of 70 million Meanwhile the legal migration is through the roof because we've abandoned FOM and migrant workers from India and Nigeria won't work here without their families coming too and it being permanent The right wing in this country are just clueless the levels of stupidity and short term grandstanding is beyond a farce
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  68. nope Truss takes that mantle followed by Cameron then Johnson
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  69.  @lewis123417  How is that? The previous OBR report was based on false data such as No pay awards for public sector workers Mythical savings in government budgets What Reeve announced was real investment into the economy to reduce waiting lists fix RAAC and move our renewable energy program and housing program forward. All the growth the Tories created in 14 years was on the back of migration if you look at GDP per Capita were poorer by 5% than in 2010, ere the Tories going to import another million to boost up their figures?
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