Comments by "Greg Greg" (@SlowhandGreg) on "The New Culture Forum" channel.

@mcbarberblue no I'm one of those people that looks at various articles from both left and right and have seen the right wing in this country descend in to utter nonsense. This is one of them 7 bins Meat tax The vilification of public transport and 15 minute cities Etc.
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@williamvorkosigan5151 If you have staff shortages in the NHS how can they make it worse? The UK has an ageing population and a birth rate of 1.6 it needs to be 2.1 to maintain the current numbers. You need 400,000 additional workers just to stand still pay the taxes and man the old people's homes. If you have an alternate solution which is viable to a fundamental economic problem which doesn't involve shrinking the economy and leaving care homes and the NHS with chronic staff shortages then people will listen. By the way I work in IT and am primarily a numbers guy also studied economics and English literature way way back and have a tendency to look at things as a an abstract maths problem the cultural war stuff doesn't push my buttons in the slightest I do find the conversations fascinating.
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You actually believe this junk?
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No its not that's a silly comparison because things never stay as they are. You have a mobile phone that is a bigger computer than the ones I started working on in the early 80's. The world doesn't stand still @mcbarberblue
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There's more to transition away from fossil than the weather, if your economy isn't tied to the oil industry your isolated from world commodity prices Ex - Norway have 96% renewable energy and 3% inflation ours is going to go over 10, Sweden are 54% and will have 4% inflation both are high EV adopters as well
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@markhenry192 there is no private healthcare model that provides better value, Germany and France put in 2-3% of gdp more the equivalent of our defence budget you'd need a couple points more onto that to provide profit for a private system. You've also got the problem of loosing tens of thousands of volunteers who help at hospitals for free who aren't going to do it if it's privatised
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@devlinX you've had 13 years of failed Thatcherite policies, Blaire was a centerist as far removed from the Supply Side Economic bollox the Tories pedal as ice is from fire
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@semperidem-b4b let me guess the earth is flat and the sun revolves round it
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@williamvorkosigan5151 You get freedom of movement or you don't its not a 5 year portocabin thing. By the way EU workers supplied +£84,000 in taxation over time to the treasury verses a UK home grown worker. If housing transport schools the NHS aren't functioning as you'd like that's the governments fault not the migrant workforce they actually add value to the economy
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Well this was a waste of time bunch of right wing nut jobs spouting out about bias, Johnson is incompetent we have 60K + deaths everyone of the cabinet just turns up and lies, Gove was a complete embarrassment on the TV the other week. The current government are out of touch with its own party never mind the country
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Warsi is tackling Islamophobia as we all should I'm an Atheist the highest grouping in the country. Islam is 4.4% I've always been socially tolerant the only group I'm not to is those spreading fear and using populism to sow division in this country @Flowmotion1000
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So have Christians and you can go look over at India Pakistan. I'm an atheist and don't like bigotry and people being singled out for being different @edda682
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What utter nonsense We've had the pupet of the IEA in charge and now the Puupet of Policy Exchange peddaling thier tricle dow cr@p The country needs investment not another 5 years of stagnation and neoliberal bollox
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Yet he pursued hard right Thatcherism destroying the economy on the way
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@royfearn4345 Blaire was a centrist Thatcher was a hard right neoliberal hard right free market fundamentalist as was Cameron May and now Sunak Truss was a libertarian
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There both designed to make you outraged because it hooks you into wanting more, the problem is it needs to ramp it up all the time so this week's culture war has to be worse than last weeks. Both talk radio and GBnews don't have experts on don't do in depth discussion and are just talking heads spouting off grievance based evidence free rubbish that wind their audience into a froth. I could give you loads of examples but it sounds like your hooked already By the way Talk TV is owned by the Murdoch's a billionaire who is quite happy to pedal extreme views on his media that garners power and influence over Politicians so they don't introduce legislation which hurts billionaire interests.
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Deaths from Covid per 100k in Florida are 352 and per 100k in California are 234 That's the headline number when you dive into excess mortality rates its clear that Red States are massaging the effects of the pandemic down by quite a margin and California and NY were at the front of the first wave yet there way below in death rates and excess mortality. The Economic bonus of tackling covid strictly can be seen in the IMF data predicting 3% GDP growth for 2021 in Canada and Australia with both economies fully recovered to pre pandemic levels the US will have 1.5% and a patchwork of restrictions enabling the disease to spread fairly unchecked
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He has no connection with the Rail Unions Lisa Nandy joined a picket line but was representing her sponsors and constituents the guy was doing gesture politics after being told not too. Labour's biggest voting block are young educated, uneducated older men over 50 turned to UKIP the Cons turned to English Nationalist policies to gain this block at the last election but there not Conservative they'd vote for the National Front or BNP given 1/2 a chance and are at odds with your standard blue wall voter
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No I haven't the youtube algorithm is automatic. Why is tolerance selfish? You appear to want some sort of nostalgic past which never existed except in your own head. The fruits of progress increased wealth & health comes with the price of globalisation and a more integrated society. @mcbarberblue
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sectarian violence isn't the prerogative of one single religion its pretty universal there's always someone prepared to use it as an excuse @mcbarberblue
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Because you want want an economy for the 95% and the rest of us in economic slavery, dream on Labour landslide and you elites can go smoke one By the way the PopCon event he spoke at was sponsored by the fossil lobby that want to keep the economy from becoming energy independent and remain tied to Cartel controlled world commodity prices
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Exactly I went and looked up who was sponsoring this stuff and you'll never guess where the trail led why the Fossil fuel lobby and Libertarian billionaire interests who would have thought it our Nige man of the people doing the bidding of the billionaire elite.
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Why lie its just so purile Get back to your 7 bins and meat tax you really are a disgrace
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@markhenry192 not without its problems that's an understatement you obviously don't understand how private healthcare works or any privatisation of a public service monopoly. As I've pointed out already the thousands of volunteers will be lost, absolutely irreplaceable, government borrowing at a fraction of rates available to private companies for capital investment will need to be paid for a whole tier of private sector workers needed to run an insurance scheme co-pays for everything under the sun. Basically take the gdp spend double it and shove 1/4 into shareholders and bosses pockets while screwing over the public Neoliberalism Everything's for sale
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@markhenry192 I had private care through work before I retired, first it sponges off the existing system but adds some relief from routine operations, it covered me for fk all else there where that many disclaimers and non cover areas. Any previous or congential condition was simply excluded there's also no A&E provision it was absolute chaos when my knee operation blew up. Cost wise I've already contributed my whole life to the current system why should I see it sold off for profit and now have to take out an insurance policy, obviously I won't so the government will be paying nearly double per person in insurance premiums because the elderly are its highest users. So you would rather pay double what you do now and see others excluded I have to say that's a sad and bitter life you lead Reminds me of the American story that when segregation stopped towns would rather close public swimming pools rather than let Negro's in
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@markhenry192 Its not failing its being made to fail by political decisions I could sort some of the bottlenecks immediately what there is is a desire by the Cons to sell it off. Granted some of the solutions would take time to peculate down the system but what has happened is cuts to other areas is pushing people to front-line services Ex - social care and bed blocking the government cut funding to local authorities which the closed special units, these units were staffed not by nurses and doctors but by better trained care workers. The cost of pumping these people into the NHS is x 40-50 the cost base of treating them in special units. Automation, how many nurses does it take to turn a patient who is bedridden
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@markhenry192 I used to work in IT and have a degree in economics and spent a lifetime solving complex problems with networks data flows etc. There is huge scope for improvement in the current system. I hear this Trope all the time if only it was run as a business but the Tories trying to run it as a business is why where at a crisis. I've worked for 2 different companies controlled by hedge funds they know the cost of everything and the value of nothing. If you look at the privatised water companies they haven't improved services but have debt loaded the companies at the same time as paying out large dividends. There is concern in financial circles that if interest rates continue to climb they will go bankrupt. Privatisation is not for me
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A vote for conservatives is a vote to be run by Policy Exchange and 5 more years of neoliberal trickle down cr*p Labour are completely different they've parachuted in Torsten Bell from Resolution Foundation
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@vacation_generation the Tories have never stood for self determination its always been pushing the millionaire billionaire agenda If you want a vibrant economy you need a healthy and well educated workforce If you want thriving businesses you need high quality transport links and other services for the employees
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Cameron was nothing like Blaire who was a centerist Cameron was a tarted up Thatcherite on the right of the Con party
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@wessexfox5197 deeds not words Austerity was pure Thatcherism pushed by the hard right think tanks as where the corporate tax cuts which ballooned the debt from 62% in 2010 to 92% They where told in 2012 what damage Austerity was doing to the economy but did it anyway it became a political choice then blamed the results of thier policies on migrant labour fueling the xenophobic and easily led
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Why would anyone with a high level of education vote for a right wing party they offer nothing to society as a whole they just destroy Here you are wanting to stop critical thinking in education because it doesn't suit your world view
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@douglas_gemini Why do you mock someone who is Autistic and has a heightened sense of minute detail is it because you are unable to imagine see or extrapolate changes around you. Greta lives on the shore of the Baltic sea due to global warming the sea is rising 5cm per year in her area the water is less noticeably saline through ice melt the Jet Stream is carrying 7% more moisture. All of these factors affect plant animal and fish life. I'm primarily an Economist what's wrong with fossil fuels is they are expensive compared to the current renewable alternatives the only reason we don't have more is lobby group pressure from the fossil industry to slow down investment in them. Governments also spend an unmeasurable amount of money cleaning up after fossil projects have finished. The cost of decommissioning and cleaning up UK North Sea rigs, pipelines and other physical infrastructure is estimated to be 75 billion. Then there is the economics of world commodity price fluctuation the North sea crude if it were owned by the UK government could supply UK only at $60 barrel it is trading at $108 and has reached highs of $125 Electricity in the UK is £200 per megawatt hour at spot price Dogger Bank offshore wind has a contract price of £40 Running Gas peaker plants is one of the most inefficient methods of grid balancing you can currently get cheap to set up Verses Expensive to run rather than investing in long term solutions.
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The populist right bang on endlessly about a topic that is used as a tool to get you to vote against your own economic interests. None of them will block immigration because if they did the country would spiral down the toilet economically, the Tories will bang on about it yet in the background still keep handing out visas Unlike when we were in the EU people could just move seamlessly from 1 country to the next now you will get permanent migration from the Indian sub continent Philippines and Nigeria just go look at the latest home office data. Loath it as you may migration keeps economies growing growth means more taxes for the exchequer and in the Tories case more to siphon off to their rich friends.
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@legendaryjonblue And you think the Cons are going to bring in legislation that bans Fire and ReHire Zero hour Contracts etc.. Minimum wage sub contracting etc need looking at as well.
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@legendaryjonblue There's 1.3 million vacancies and no matter what the Cons say there not going to stop migration in or out. Why Economics Our birth rate is 1.6 it needs to be 2.1 300, 000 net doesn't even cover the death to birth ratio to keep the population stable Also 50,000 people migrate out of the UK every year The model the Cons are using is predicting a population growth of between 0.4 and 0.6% someone has to pay the taxes So they'll just play you along blame Johnny foreigner make loud noises then hand out visas like confetti behind your back My advice to you is worry about your pay packet not some imaginary enemy that there using to screw you over with
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@asnowman8094 wage suppression is a feature of government not migration for all Blaire's faults average wages went up by +25% in real terms. The increase is driven by efficiency and investment, things like public transport subsidising childcare after school and holiday clubs affordable public housing and taxing companies appropriately. You also make minimum wage a living wage you look now after 12 years of Tory bollox 80% of people on benefits are in work education and health are pared to the bone and company profits are sky high. If you want an example on how to level up a country look at East Germany the West plowed 2 trillion into it over 20+ years Blaming migrants is your standard fascist playbook don't look here look over there there the enemy, ramp up the rhetoric to demonise and dehumanise them breeding hate for a problem they created
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